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kim-kam, a. and adv. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 8 chim-cham.
[app. f. kam, cam a., crooked, awry, reduplicated as in flim-flam, jim-jam, etc.]
A. adj. Crooked, awkward, perverse, contrary.
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 44 Thee wauering Commons in kym kam sectes ar haled. a1734North Exam. i. iii. §47 (1740) 151 Now the Reason of all this Chim-Cham Stuff, is the ridiculous Undertaking, of the Author, to prove Oates' Plot..out of Coleman's Papers. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., Let's a none o' yore kim-kam ways.
B. adv. Crookedly, awry; in a wayward, perverse, or contrary way.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 452 Every thing then was turned upside downe, and..all went kim kam. 1658J. Harrington Prerog. Pop. Govt. i. xii. (1700) 310 He presumes [etc.]..Kim Kam to the Experience of all Common⁓wealths. 1691–2Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 47, [1666] This yeare all my businesses and affaires ran kim-kam. 18..Whittaker in Lancash. Gloss., Kim-kam, (to walk) with a throw of the legs athwart one another. |