jiminy crickets
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Interjection edit
jiminy crickets
- Alternative form of Jiminy Cricket
- 1891, Effie Woodward Merriman, A Queer Family, page 77:
- Oh, jiminy crickets ! ! Oh, great summer coons up in the peach-orchard ! ! ! Yer ought ter see the feller what 's a-bringin' our bedstid.
- 1929, Sophie Kerr, Mareea-Maria, page 166:
- "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!"
- 2008, Carolyn Wells, Patty in the City, page 129:
- this week he had an awful attack, and, jiminy crickets, if he wasn't cross!