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

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

Several whalers watched the procession until they got the jimjams by force of imagination, and when their bodies began to float down with the bottles, the down-river people got anxious.

From Over the Sliprails by Lawson, Henry

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)