jimjams

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To sidewalk farmers, who suppose that a ridgeling is the peak in a barn roof and a freemartin a species of swallow,*some of Gus's outbuildings and his hog runs might well give the jimjams.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may well give genuine admirers of good cinema and credible Englishmen the jimjams.

From Time Magazine Archive

But in the play you almost have a set of love jimjams on account of that woman, and let her reform you, and all that sort of thing.

From Bolanyo by Read, Opie Percival

For one thing, Pinto, no cop goes into hysterics at sight of a dead body unless his conscience is giving him the jimjams.

From The Gray Phantom's Return by Landon, Herman

O, we’re camped in the sand in a foreign land Near the mighty Agus River, With the brush at our toes, the skeeters at our nose, The jimjams and the fever.

From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Gilbert, Paul T. (Paul Thomas)