"jimminy crickets" meaning in All languages combined

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Interjection [English]

  1. Alternative form of Jiminy Cricket. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Jiminy Cricket
    Sense id: en-jimminy_crickets-en-intj-KxJTTFpT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "“Don’t swear so, John. What if you should be struck dead with such horrid oaths on your lips!” said his wife soothingly. “Swear so? Jimminy crickets, by all that’s great I’m not swearing; but I am going to express my opinion of this confounded, nine cornered bazoo of a blamed rickety infernal bit of stove pipe—” Exit the wife with her hands over her ears.",
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          "ref": "1891 December 19, Aunt Susie, “Tim’s Christmas”, in Pacific Rural Press, volume XLII, number 25, San Francisco, Calif.: Dewey & Co., […], →OCLC, column 3:",
          "text": "When he came to the last piece, he thought it seemed heavier than the rest, and leaned over to see better by the street lamp, when to his otter astonishment, he found it was a gold piece; showed it to the policeman, and he told him it was a $2.50 piece. Tim exclaimed “Whew, jimminy crickets! Look at this, Dick. Two dollars an’ a half.[…]”",
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          "ref": "1908 November 7, Owen Johnson, “Making Friends”, in The Saturday Evening Post […], volume 181, number 19, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:",
          "text": "“Why, Lovely, what are you doing?” / “Dressing. Didn’t you hear the bell?” / “Jimminy crickets, what a waste, what an awful waste of time,” said the Gutter Pup luxuriously, stretching his arms and yawning. “Say, Lovely, I like you. You’re a good sort and that was a rattlin’ plucky tackle you made yesterday. Say, we’re going to get on famously together, only, Lovely, you are green, you know.”",
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