Citations:Jimmy

English citations of Jimmy and jimmy

male crab

2003, Howard R. Ernst, Chesapeake Bay Blues: Science, Politics, and the Struggle to Save the Bay, Rowman & Littlefield (→ISBN), page 92:
Immature female crabs, commonly referred to as "she-crabs," have V-shaped underbellies; and mature females, called "sooks," have U-shaped underbellies. The male crab, or "Jimmy," is often considerably larger than a female of the same age and prefers the less salty waters of the northern Chesapeake, while the females prefer the higher salinity levels closer to the Atlantic.
1996, Tom Horton, An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 24:
Imagine then , a studly jimmy crab , confined in his underwater cell on a May evening redolent with the come - hither of peeler piss . The fragrance has him fairly trembling to be about his natural business . Frustration turns to joy as […]
2021 July 29, Sarah Strauss, Benjamin S. Orlove, Weather, Climate, Culture, Routledge, →ISBN:
During mating, male and female crabs double up, as the jimmy crab cradles the female underneath him in what anthropomorphically could be called a prolonged and protective embrace. To catch doublers – the term refers only to the female […]
1998 04, Cy Liberman, Pat Liberman, The Crab Cookbook: How to Catch and Cook Crabs, B B& A Publishers, →ISBN, page 69:
In fact , we suggest the inventors of such disastrous dishes be awarded several nips from the pincers of the largest Jimmy crab around . The recipes in this book give you a great deal of freedom to improvise , which is what you will […]
1915, New Jersey. Legislature, Documents of the ... Legislature of the State of New Jersey, page 22:
When matured , and the crab becomes a ' jimmy crab , ' a ' channel crab , ' or ' old sow - crab , ' whatever it may be called in localities , it sheds no more . It is then a hard crab ' for good and all , and the bravest thing for its […]
2015 October 15, Bill Smith, Crabs and Oysters: a Savor the South® cookbook, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 6:
The most desirable is the #1 Jimmy crab. This is the mature male. All crabs are graded into five sizes: small, 5–51⁄2 inches; medium, 51⁄2–6 inches; large, 6–61⁄2 inches; jumbo, 61⁄2–7 inches; and colossal, 7-plus inches.
2011 March 31, Frederick Ramsay, Choker, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 105:
“And that is bad? How?” “Crabs feed and do their thing in the sea grass. That's where the little ones go to get bigger. That's where they peel, you know, shed their shells so's they can grow. That's where Jimmy crab gets to fertilize […]
2003 November 1, Ed Waterhouse, Chincoteague Summer of 1948: A Waterman's Childhood Stories, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 6:
Jim” from one time he was doing his number two business sitting on the gunnel of his bateau with his pants down to his knees and some of his manly parts was hanging down and a big Jimmy crab got a pincer-holt on his gonad.
1986, John R. Maiolo, Social and Economic Impacts of Growth of the Blue Crab Fishery in North Carolina:
Dealers agreed that I there were not plenty of out - of - state markets they would not be in the crab business . There are four marketing exceptions to fresh picked crab meat in this state . One is the jimmy crab market .
1995, Suzanne Tate, Susan Maloney, A Teaching Guide for Suzanne Tate's Nature Series, Nags Head Art, Inc., →ISBN, page 8:
... was a jimmy crab . 3. One day Nabby became a crab . Other activities : Put vocabulary 5. Crabby said that he would Nabby . words in ABC order . Write your own 7. Nabby became a Put the words in correct ABC order . name :.

Cebuano citations of Jimmy

Proper noun: "a male given name"

2012 — Lahugay sa MCPO Gikatakdang Ipatuman sa Enero 16 (07 January), SuperBalita
Sila usab si Chief Insp. Jimmy Aguisanda ug Chief Insp. Siegfried Toribio lakip sa ma- revamp, diin si Aguisanda maoy hepe sa Traffic Management Unit. Si Toribio mao na usab ang hepe sa supply. Alang kang Toribio ug Aguisanda, nga bisan unsa may buot ipatuman sa ilang pangu, basta alang sa kaayohan sa tanan, di sila magpanuko sa pagtuman niini.

2015 — Tangcawan, Alan, Saksi ang Buta sa Pagpatay (22 October), SuperBalita
Matod pa ni Jimmy (tuo, ang gitarista), iyang gikuptan ang bukton sa iyang kauban arun^[sic] manghapa sila.