Talk:jingo
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Equinox in topic Etymology
Etymology edit
The wikipedia article Jingo [1] mentions the reference "By Jesus!" Does anyone know in what relation (if any) this is with the Japanese idiom 人後? -- 93.106.121.246 22:41, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
- In the U.S., Jingo in the sense of Jesus is associated with elderly farmers and other country folk and has been attested for over 300 years. However it came to be, it certainly did not come from Japanese. —Stephen 23:17, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
- This definition (synonymous with "hawk", or the slanderous "warmonger") is incorrect. Don't tell me to fix it either. I would've if I could've. 71.87.23.22 19:51, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) says that jingo was "said to be a corruption of St. Gingoulph" (Saint-Gingolph?) and refers us to "Halliwell" (James Halliwell's dictionary of archaic provincial words?). Equinox ◑ 21:27, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
it's older than we think edit
w:Bingo_(folk_song)#Earlier_forms turns up a reference in a song from 1785, suggesting it was already widely understood at the time. —Soap— 08:19, 24 February 2021 (UTC)