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jiminy crickets en · INTJ
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Jiminy Cricket.
Oh, jiminy crickets ! ! Oh, great summer coons up in the peach-orchard ! ! ! Yer ought ter see the feller what 's a-bringin' our bedstid.
1891, Effie Woodward Merriman, A Queer Family, page 77:this week he had an awful attack, and, jiminy crickets, if he wasn't cross!
2008, Carolyn Wells, Patty in the City, page 129:"By jiminy!" Wesley leaped high and clapped his heels together three times before he came to earth. He seized Mareea and spun her round, kissed her, tousled her hair. "By jiminy crickets! You an' me an' a boy!"
1929, Sophie Kerr, Mareea-Maria, page 166: