jomer

See also: Jomer

English

Noun

jomer (plural jomers)

1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A sweetheart, or favourite girl.
   • 1859, Snowden's Magistrates Assistant, page 87:

     […] going about the county half-naked, but having good clothes, perhaps sent forward to the lodging-house by his jomer (girl); this is very often a profitable trade; the shallow-cove of course selling all the clothes he does not need himself.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary