A fantastical contrivance.
1824. “O the wonderation, what a nation sight of jiggermarees!” “Yes, faith,” quoth Ned, “and as thick as seven bumblebees on a punkin blow.”—Old Colony Memorial (Plymouth), March 6.
1844. Mary was sewin’ something mighty fine, with ruffles and jigamarees all around it.—W. T. Thompson, ‘Major Jones’s Courtship’ (Bartlett).
1848. I ax’d the captain what sort of a gigamaree he had got up thar for a flag?—The same, ‘Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel,’ p. 156 (Phila.).
