whim-whams

This whole topic gives me the whim-whams or the vapours.

Sears 1934: Latest Update – The Bleat. 2009

It also helps many of the overwhelmed get past their initial whim-whams by talking about something familiar, that they've thought about a lot, or talked about with friends.

They Came From the Squealer Side - In Which Gail Encounters a Fan Girl gailcarriger 2009

Could I really stand to have a guy that was giving me this bad a case of the whim-whams right downstairs?

Touch of Evil 2006

Of course, if it were offered now to the complex and sophisticated society of New York, it would fail to attract anything like the attention it received in the days of simplicity and literary dearth; but the same wit, insight, and literary art, informed with the modern spirit and turned upon the follies and “whim-whams” of the metropolis, would doubtless have a great measure of success.

Washington Irving 2004

She wasn't about to tell the gunslinger that a spavined nag with cataracts on her eyes and her ribs showing had given her a case of the whim-whams.

The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

He is conscious of his peculiarities; for when I asked him whether it would be well to make a naval officer Secretary of the Navy, he said, "God forbid, for that an old sailor was always full of prejudices and stubborn whim-whams," instancing himself; whereto I agreed.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

The girl always was a parcel of whim-whams -- made up of odds and ends, as it was, of her fore-runners.

The Place Beyond the Winds Harry Spafford Potter 1906

I have no space (in that little room) to catalogue all the whim-whams with which she had made it beautiful, from the hand-sewn bell-rope which pulled no bell to the hand-painted cigar-box that contained no cigars.

The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens 1898

He has sash'd the great apartment that's to be sure (I can't help these things), and being since told, that square sash-windows were not Gothic, he has put certain whim-whams within side the glass, which appearing through are to look like fret-work.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Various 1887

Of course, if it were offered now to the complex and sophisticated society of New York, it would fail to attract anything like the attention it received in the days of simplicity and literary dearth; but the same wit, insight, and literary art, informed with the modern spirit and turned upon the follies and “whim-whams” of the metropolis, would doubtless have a great measure of success.

Washington Irving Warner, Charles D 1881