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Definition of Jimcrack
1. n. See Gimcrack.
Definition of Jimcrack
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of gimcrack) ¹
2. Noun. (alternative spelling of gimcrack) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jimcrack
1. a trick [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jimcrack
Literary usage of Jimcrack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Crusoe's Island: A Bird-hunter's Story by Frederick Albion Ober (1898)
""Da's de same sho'-nuff ole jimcrack ; dat's what he ... Who sen' jimcrack to
you, sah, when you is all alone an' need ..."
2. Letters to His Son: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1901)
"Your reading should be chiefly historical; I do not mean of remote, dark, and
fabulous history, still less of jimcrack natural history of fossils, minerals, ..."
3. Author's & Printer's Dictionary: A Guide for Authors by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"... use gilly-*. jimcrack, useg-*. Jind, Punjab, «o/Jh-. Jingo/*, a blatant
patriot; /</. -es. jinn*, spirit of Moham. myth., not djinn, ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1888)
"Close beside the wrecked mariner lay a small box of carved, light-coloured wood ;
one of those slight, pretty, jimcrack affairs ..."
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