Definition of Jimjam

1. a knick-knack [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jimjam

jilting
jiltings
jilts
jim-dandy
jim-jams
jim crow
jim dandy
jimador
jimboite
jimcrack
jimcracks
jimdandy
jimhickey
jiminy
jiminy cricket
jimjam (current term)
jimjams
jimmie
jimmied
jimmies
jimminy
jimmy cap
jimmy caps
jimmy hat
jimmying
jimp
jimper
jimpest
jimpier

Literary usage of Jimjam

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1913)
"O. 43. That Idaho contempt case. Hearst's M. 24: 224-34. Ag. 43. Wolf ville: Boanerges. Cosmopol. 55: 526-36. S. 43. Wolf ville: jimjam Wallis: liar. ..."

2. Colonization, Particularly in Southern Australia: Particularly in Southern by Charles James Napier (1835)
"The party bivouacked at a place called jimjam by the natives, about eleven miles from the mouths of the Murray, and on the following morning the whole ..."

3. Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia by George Fletcher Moore (1884)
"... the party bivouacked at a place called by the natives " jimjam," about ten or eleven miles in a direct line ENE from the mouth of the Murray, ..."

4. The Works of John Jewel by John Jewel, John Ayre (1850)
"... jimjam made for him to take it up, hold it, and put it on handsomely, or conveyed it on by a vice, or how it was done THE BISHOP OP ..."

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