or jiggambob, subs. (common).—1.  A knick-knack; a trinket: anything particular, strange, or unknown. Cf. THINGAMBOB.

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  1640.  R. BROME, The Antipodes, iii. 5.

        Kils Monster, after Monster; takes the Puppets
Prisoners, knocks downe the Cyclops, tumbles all
Our JIGAMBOBS and trinckets to the wall.

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  1647.  BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Knight of Malta, iv. 1. More JIGGAMBOBS: is not this the fellow that sworn like a duck to the shore.

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  1657.  MIDDLETON, Women beware Women, ii. 2. On with her chain of pearls, her ruby bracelets, lay ready all her tricks and JIGGEMBOBS.

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  1678.  BUTLER, Hudibras, III., i., 107.

        Had rifled all his pokes and fobs
Of gimcracks, whims, and JIGGUMBOBS.

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  2.  (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see MONOSYLLABLE.

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  1675.  COTTON, Scarronides, in Wks. (1725), Bk. iv. p. 65.

            Were I not with my first Honey
Half tyr’d as ’twere with Matrimony;
I could with this same Youngster tall
Find in my heart to try a fall …
This only (not to mince the Matter)
Has made my JIGGAMBOB to water.

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  3.  In pl. (venery).—The testicles: for synonyms, see CODS.—GROSE (1785).

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