"jiminy" meaning in English

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          "word": "by Jiminy"
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          "word": "jiminy Christmas"
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          "word": "Jiminy Cricket"
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          "ref": "1917, Elaine Sterne, The Road of Ambition, New York, N.Y.: Britton Publishing Company, page 120",
          "text": "He sat up with a jerk. \"Holy Jiminy! How did you figure all that out?\"",
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          "ref": "1956, Joe Evans Brown, Laughter Is a Wonderful Thing, New York, N.Y.: A. S. Barnes and Company, page 77",
          "text": "\"Jimminy!\" I thought. \"Now I can do my Christmas shopping just like anybody.\" I dashed out along the town's main street to look at the glowing store windows and ponder what to buy.",
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          "ref": "1968, Peter Dickinson, The Glass-Sided Ant's Nest, New York, N.Y., Evanston, I.L.: Harper & Row, Publishers, page 23",
          "text": "A hand touched her arm, in the crook of the bare flesh inside the elbow. Jiminy, how quietly they could all move! She looked sideways and up, through the dark.",
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          "ref": "2007, Tricia Boone, Melissa Thompson, The Stormholder, Nashville, T.N.: Cold Tree Press, page 137",
          "text": "\"Oh, jimminy,\" yelled Katie. \"Don't you...\" she warned, as the brew drizzled into her palms. Her eyes rolled back and she collapsed onto the table.",
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        "An expression of mild surprise or annoyance."
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          "word": "geeminy"
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          "word": "geminy"
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          "word": "gemony"
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          "word": "jeminy"
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      "word": "by Jiminy"
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      "word": "Jiminy Cricket"
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          "ref": "1917, Elaine Sterne, The Road of Ambition, New York, N.Y.: Britton Publishing Company, page 120",
          "text": "He sat up with a jerk. \"Holy Jiminy! How did you figure all that out?\"",
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          "ref": "1956, Joe Evans Brown, Laughter Is a Wonderful Thing, New York, N.Y.: A. S. Barnes and Company, page 77",
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