subs. (B. E.).—1. ‘A Maggot.’ Hence ‘WHIMSICAL’ = ‘Maggotish’: see BEE IN BONNET and MAGGOT.
2. (old).—See JIGGUMBOB, spec. quot. 1678 s.v.
3. (venery).—The female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE: also WHIM-WHAM.
1707. WARD, Hudibras Redivivus, II. iii. 26. When I had view’d the Ladies Limbs, And all these Members, but their WHIMS. Ibid., II. iv. 18. Let me know whether your WHIM be high or low…. The Fro believing from my Joaks, I fancy’d not her Butter-box, Cock’d up her Head, took leave in scorn.
