geminy

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English

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Etymology 1

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See Gemini.

Noun

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geminy

  1. (obsolete) twins; a pair; a couple
    • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      I have grated upon my good friends for three reprieves for you and your coach-fellow Nym; or else you had looked through the grate, like a geminy of baboons.

Etymology 2

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Interjection

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geminy

  1. Alternative form of jiminy

References

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