zimmer

zimmer (plural zimmers)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Zimmer (“Zimmer frame”).
   • 2001 March 29, Gervase Phinn, Over Hill and Dale, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

     I've seen three of them with zimmers. I mean that floor's slippery - I only polished it this morning. But would they listen? They shouldn't be out on a night like this. It's bitter.

   • 2018 November 4, Rachael Boulton, Exodus, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     And old men, one with a bumbag, a couple with zimmers, there's people all over the gold carousel, banners, whistles, the works. I'm right beside a circle of older women drumming - they look like some of the women in my team at work, but they're drumming  […]

• zummer

From Middle English somer, from Old English sumor, from Proto-West Germanic *sumar. Cognates include English summer and Scots simmer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɪmər/, /ˈzʊmər/

zimmer

1. summer

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 81