jimjams

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He was a young fellow, one of "Kitchener's crowd," and told us frankly that he had the "jimjams" in this solitude of Ypres and "saw Germans" every time a rat jumped.

From Now It Can Be Told by Gibbs, Philip

If you do," drawled Shotwell to Fair, as they hurried down into the lamplight, "you'll think the devil's inside of her with the jimjams.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

His stillness, Kittie—like—" "John Burkhardt would give me the razzle-dazzle jimjams overnight, he would.

From Gaslight Sonatas by Hurst, Fannie