gingambobs n.
1. a collection of non-specific items; toys, baubles .
![]() | [trans.] Cervantes Don Quixote 125: [T]he Curate borrow’d a compleat Woman’s-Apparel of the Hostess [...] and the Barber made him a Beard of a Py’d Oxe’s Tail, half Danish, half grizl’d [...] The Hostess being curious to know what they intended to do with those Gingombobs [...]. | |
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Gingambobs, toys, bawbles; also a man’s privities. |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
2. the testicles.
![]() | Maronides (1678) VI 73: Evadne all in Mulligrubs / For her spruce Ushers gingombobbs. | |
, , , | ![]() | see sense 1. |