Jammy (adj)
jam-ee
Very lucky.
Jammy was first recorded in 1850–55 and is an informal word primarily used in British English. Jammy was formed apparently from jam, “a preserve of whole fruit, slightly crushed, boiled with sugar.” Jammy, in the featured sense, is comparable to the idioms to have jam on it, meaning “to have something easy,” and real jam or pure jam, which means “something easy or pleasant.”
Example sentences
“He’s such a jammy sod, if he fell through the roof of John Lewis he’d land in a new suit!”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)