Meaning of jimjam | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Attributive form of jimjams (“pajamas”).
   attributive, countable, form-of, uncountable
2. Placeholder word for a thing or person nonspecific, unknown or forgotten; thingamabob.
   countable, uncountable
3. Nonsense; rigmarole.
   countable, uncountable
4. Chaotic activity; uproar; craziness.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“As I sat and pushed down my jimjam pants, Sean came in to tuck me in.”

“Ye should have done well to shew us with which foot the pope did set on the crown upon Henry's head, the right or the left, standing, sitting, leaning, or lying, barefooted and using the help of his great toe or shod, whether he had some 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.”

“Where the jimjam sits on the thingumbob tree, And he sweetly sings to the jigamarec.”

“A feller that sees a lot o' jimjam visions ahead never will buck down to real life here, an' he'll never lay up a dollar or own a foot of land.”

“The Mexican trouble is about one fifth genuine complication and four fifths journalistic jimjam.”

“We can eat in the kitchen, like we used to before you got old enough to ply the lads an' do all that mall jimjam with your pals.”

“Shiver me sails an' rot me timbers, fry me barnacles, scrape me keel, an' all that nautical jimjam.”

“The whole town's in a positive jimjam.”

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