Word of the Day: JIMMYCANE

ETYMOLOGY
probably a jocular variation of hurricane

EXAMPLE
“…”Well, I’ll be everlastin’ly bamboozled! I never seen Doc Barwood melt and’ leak away like that before. I was countin’ on a storm – a reg’lar cyclone an’ jimmycane rolled into one; an’ ther’ wasn’t even a puff o’ wind n’r a clap of thunder...”

From: Ralph Marlowe
A Novel
By James Ball Naylor, 1901