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Definition of Jimcracks
1. jimcrack [n] - See also: jimcrack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jimcracks
Literary usage of Jimcracks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1901)
"... is $10000; a lot of dinners to members — say $10000 altogether; lot of jimcracks
for Congressmen's wives and children — those go a long way — you can't ..."
2. The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams (1903)
"You other kids had better let the games alone and save your money to buy red silk
handkerchiefs and soda water and such harmless jimcracks. ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"An' what she called 'jimcracks' was Cooney's pretties in the sittin'- room.
"But I stood it; she was Cooney's ma. Only, when the mockin'-bird's cage door ..."
4. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1838)
"I told him the folks about here was glad to keep their heads on their shoulders ;
they didn't care much about clocks or any of (hem jimcracks now-a-days. ..."
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