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

"Was it jimjams, or only a bad nightmare?"

From Dick in the Everglades by Dimock, A. W.

I’m due to have some bad dreams to-night anyhow, on the strength of this snake-killin’, but it’d give me the jumpin’ jimjams if I had to sleep next to them remains.

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard

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)