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.”

CEFR level