jigamareen.
/ˌdʒɪɡəməˈriː/ dialect or colloquial.
1. (See quots.)
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource > a device, contrivance, or expedient
costOE
craftOE
custc1275
ginc1275
devicec1290
enginec1300
quaintisec1300
contrevurec1330
castc1340
knackc1369
findinga1382
wilea1400
conject14..
skiftc1400
policy?1406
subtilityc1410
policec1450
conjecturea1464
industry1477
invention1516
cunning1526
shift1530
compass1540
chevisance1548
trade1550
tour1558
fashion1562
invent?1567
expediment1571
trick1573
ingeny1588
machine1595
lock1598
contrival1602
contrivement1611
artifice1620
recipea1643
ingenuity1651
expedient1653
contrivance1661
excogitation1664
mechanism1669
expediency1683
stroke1699
spell1728
management1736
manoeuvre1769
move1794
wrinkle1817
dodge1842
jigamaree1847
quiff1881
kink1889
lurk1916
gadget1920
fastie1931
ploy1940
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Jiggamaree, a manœuvre. Var. dial.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Jiggamaree, a sportive or cunning trick; a maneuver. (Colloq. and low.)
1890 Cent. Dict. Jigamaree.
2. A fanciful contrivance, which the speaker thinks ridiculous or worthless.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial
gewgaw?c1225
frivolc1450
whim-whama1529
jim-jamc1540
trickc1550
flamfew1574
ribaldry1594
bubble1598
kickshawa1616
fairy money1616
foolation1628
fingle-fanglea1652
trangama1658
tinsel1660
gingerbread1664
finnimbrun1676
gimcrack1676
knacka1677
tawdrum1680
knick-knack1682
trantlum1768
knick-knacket1793
folderol1820
jigamaree1824
novelty1840
fool's gold1870
flapdoodle1877
fal-lal1902
1824 Old Colony Memorial (Plymouth, Mass.) 6 Mar. O the wonderation, what a nation sight of jiggermarees!
1844 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship (ed. 2) xv. 116 Mary was sowin something mighty fine and white with ruffles and jigamarees all around it.
1848 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Sketches Trav. 9 (Farmer) Byin' fineries and northern gigamarees of one kind or another.
a1860 N.Y. Spirit of the Times The ‘housekeeper's friend’, that ere jigamaree the wimmin scrubs with, instead of going on their hands and knees as they used to.
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