"land sakes" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "(minced oath) Lord’s sakes",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886, Horatio Alger, chapter 28, in Helping Himself",
          "text": "\"Land sakes! I don't keep a boardin' house!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Victor Appleton, chapter 31, in Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble",
          "text": "Well, as soon as Alice finished singing, land sakes! goodness, gracious me! if a big fox didn't pop out from behind a tree.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1983 June 19, Philip Shenon, “For Homesick Mississippians, a Day Full of Grits and Grins”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-11-03",
          "text": "The fourth annual “Way Up North in Mississippi” picnic was well under way in Central Park yesterday. . . . There were twangy cries of “land sakes” and “don't that beat all” and choruses of “hi, y'all.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Lori Copeland, My Heart Stood Still, page 41",
          "text": "“One of the McDougal young'uns? Well, land sakes—haven't seen you in a coon's age.”",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "An expression of surprise or dismay."
      ],
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          "surprise",
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          "dismay",
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      ],
      "qualifier": "somewhat dated and rustic",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US, somewhat dated and rustic) An expression of surprise or dismay."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "my lands"
        },
        {
          "word": "sakes"
        },
        {
          "word": "sakes alive"
        },
        {
          "word": "for land's sake"
        },
        {
          "word": "for land's sake alive"
        },
        {
          "word": "for land's sakes"
        },
        {
          "word": "for land's sakes alive"
        },
        {
          "word": "for the land's sake"
        },
        {
          "word": "for the land's sake alive"
        },
        {
          "word": "for the land's sakes"
        },
        {
          "word": "for the land's sakes alive"
        },
        {
          "word": "land sake"
        },
        {
          "word": "land sake alive"
        },
        {
          "word": "land sakes alive"
        },
        {
          "word": "land's sake"
        },
        {
          "word": "land's sake alive"
        },
        {
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        {
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  "word": "land sakes"
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{
  "etymology_text": "(minced oath) Lord’s sakes",
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  "pos": "intj",
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        {
          "ref": "1886, Horatio Alger, chapter 28, in Helping Himself",
          "text": "\"Land sakes! I don't keep a boardin' house!\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Victor Appleton, chapter 31, in Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble",
          "text": "Well, as soon as Alice finished singing, land sakes! goodness, gracious me! if a big fox didn't pop out from behind a tree.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983 June 19, Philip Shenon, “For Homesick Mississippians, a Day Full of Grits and Grins”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-11-03",
          "text": "The fourth annual “Way Up North in Mississippi” picnic was well under way in Central Park yesterday. . . . There were twangy cries of “land sakes” and “don't that beat all” and choruses of “hi, y'all.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Lori Copeland, My Heart Stood Still, page 41",
          "text": "“One of the McDougal young'uns? Well, land sakes—haven't seen you in a coon's age.”",
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        }
      ],
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        "An expression of surprise or dismay."
      ],
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        "(chiefly US, somewhat dated and rustic) An expression of surprise or dismay."
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    {
      "word": "my lands"
    },
    {
      "word": "sakes"
    },
    {
      "word": "sakes alive"
    },
    {
      "word": "for land's sake"
    },
    {
      "word": "for land's sake alive"
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    {
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    {
      "word": "for land's sakes alive"
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    {
      "word": "for the land's sake"
    },
    {
      "word": "for the land's sake alive"
    },
    {
      "word": "for the land's sakes"
    },
    {
      "word": "for the land's sakes alive"
    },
    {
      "word": "land sake"
    },
    {
      "word": "land sake alive"
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    {
      "word": "land sakes alive"
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    {
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}