colloq. ? Obs. Also 7 jig(g)am-, jiggem-, jigum-, jiggobob, jig-em-bob, giggam bobb, gigg-em-, giggom-, giggum-, gingam-, gingumbob. [A humorous formation from JIG sb. or v.: cf. kickumbob, thingumbob.]
Something odd or fanciful; a bauble, toy, knick-knack; something that one does not choose to name or specify: = THINGUMBOB. (Rarely applied to a person.)
1613. Beaum. & Fl., Coxcomb, IV. vii. What Giggombob have we here?
a. 1627. Middleton, Wom. beware Wom., II. ii. On with her chain of pearl, her ruby bracelets, Lay ready all her tricks and jiggembobs.
1629. Massinger, Picture, V. iii. Shall we have More jiggobobs yet!
1638. Brome, Antipodes, III. v. Wks. 1873, III. 285. Tumbles all Our jigambobs and trinckets to the wall.
1671. Shadwell, Humorists, V. I’ll be quit with him and that Jig-em-bob my Niece.
1678. Butler, Hud., III. i. 108. The Enemy … Had rifled all his Pokes and Fobs Of Gimcracks, Whims and Jiggumbobs, Which he by hook or crook had gather’d.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Gingumbobs, Toies, or Baubles.
