Jess

Clipping of Jesse, Jessica, and Jessamy.

• enPR: jĕs, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

Jess

1. A diminutive of the male given name Jesse.
2. A diminutive of the female given names Jessica or Jessamy.
   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 58:

     ‘Now then Kit,’ said Mr Parkinson, ‘look sharp! Help Jess up. Where has she got to?’ ‘Here I am!’ said Jessamy breathlessly as “helped” rather to vigorously from behind by Kit, she arrived on her knees on the floor of the dog cart.

   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 127:

     ‘It’s almost as if we’ve gone silly with happiness,’ said Marcus two days later. ‘Everyone in the house going round grinning like a lot of Cheshire Cats! The family I mean.’ ‘And Jess,’ said Kitto quickly. ‘Oh well, Jess is as good as family,’ said Fanny comfortably. Jessamy said nothing, but she looked up quickly and her smile would have rivalled any Cheshire Cat.

   • 2021 July 8, Betsy Trumpener, “Heiltsuk woman unable to restore Indigenous surname on ID because system can't handle its spelling”, in CBC News‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 December 2024:

     That's because officials say government systems can't currently incorporate the diacritic marks — the accents and symbols used to change the meaning and pronunciation of words — that Jess H̓áust̓i considers an essential part of her Indigenous surname.

• JSEs, JSSE