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 Weekly suffering the jim-jams of distortion on the envenomed pencil of an extraordinary artist.

JIM-DANDY, adj. (American).—Superfine.

1888. Daily Inter-Ocean, 14 Feb. George C. Ball came upon the floor yesterday arrayed in a jim-dandy suit of clothes.

JIMMY, subs. (common).—1. See JEMMY.

2. (colonial). A new chum (q.v.). Specifically (Australian convicts), a free emigrant.

1859. H. Kingsley, Geoffry Hamlyn, xxvi. 'Why, one,' said Lee, 'is a young jimmy (I beg your pardon, sir, an emigrant), the other two are old prisoners.'

3. (showmen's).—A contrivance; a concealed confederate; a fake (q.v.).

4. (American).—A coal waggon.

1887. N. Y. Semi-weekly Tribune, 18 Mar. Two jimmies loaded with coal.

All jimmy, adv. phr. (Cambridge university). 1. All nonsense.

2. (American).—Exactly; fit; suitable: cf. jemmy.

JIMMY SKINNER, subs. phr. (rhyming).—A dinner.

JIMPLECUTE (or JIMPSECUTE), subs. (American).—See quot.

1870. Figaro, 1 Dec. The Jimplecute of Texas changed her name, which was a good thing to do—jimplecute being Texas vernacular for sweetheart.

JING-BANG, subs. (Scots').—A lot complete; boiling (q.v.).

1891. Stevenson, Kidnapped, 61. The men had a great respect for the chief mate, who was, as they said, 'the only seaman of the whole jing-bang, and none such a bad man when he was sober.'

JINGLE, subs. (Irish).—A hackney carriage (Dublin).

1860. Trollope Castle Richmond, vi. An elderly man was driven up to the door of the hotel on a one horse car—a jingle as such conveniences were called in the South of Ireland.

JINGLE-BOX, subs. (old).—See quot.

1690. B.E., Dict. Cant. Crew., s.v.

1765. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Jingle Boxes, leathern jacks tipped with silver, and hung with bells formerly in use among fuddlecaps (Cant).

JINGLEBOY. See GINGLE BOY.

1658. Brome, The Weeding of Covent-Garden, p. 16. But Mistress, here is a Gallant now below, A gingle-*boy indeed.

JINGLER, subs. (old).—See quot.

1690. B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew., s.v.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Jinglers, horse cosers frequenting country fairs.

JINGLEBRAINS, subs. (colloquial).—A wild, harum-scarum fellow.—B. E. (1690); Grose (1785).

JINGO, intj. (common).—Used in mild oaths: as By Jingo! or By Jings. [Halliwell: a corruption of St. Gingoulph or Gingulphus; by others from Basque Jinkoa = God. Cf. Notes and Queries, 2 S. xii. 272, 336; 5 S. ix. 263, 400, x. 7, 96, 456; 6 S. i. 284, ii. 95, 157, 176, 335, iii. 78, iv. 114, 179]. Also By the Living Jingo.

1691-2. Gentlemen's Journal, Feb., p. 24. Hye, jingo what a deel's the matter; Do mermaids swim in Dartford water?

1764. O'Hara, Midas, ii. vi. By jingo! well performed for one of his age.

1766. Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, ix. She observed, that, 'by the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.'