Meaning of Jimminy Crickets | Babel Free

Definitions

Interjection. [B2]

Examples

“It hed seven rooms and he ruffed it all over, sides an’ all. / [“Roofed the sides?”] / Thet’s what,—kivered the hull biz with shingles clean⟳ down to the ground—an’, Jimminy Crickets! the number⟳ o’ little balc’nys, an’ gables, an’ dormant winders, an’ porches thet stuck all over it, was a caution to see⟳.”

““You see⟳, Miss⟳ Polly, you have⟳ had a very bad fall⟳, and you can’t get⟳ away just yet, nor see⟳ your friends until you are better.” / “It’s only a scratch⟳,” Polly whimpered. “I can do my work⟳; I got to.” One more feeble effort and she succumbed, with a faint “Jimminy Crickets!””

“Jimminy Crickets! The idea of what was about to become⟳ of all my things opened vistas. They’d think⟳ I took French leave⟳ lacking spondulics. I’d talked about rubber, but never shown my certificates, and I’d been losing heavily in the Casino. The Baroness was busted!”

““Don’t swear⟳ so, John. What if you should be struck dead with such horrid oaths on your lips!” said his wife soothingly. “Swear⟳ so? Jimminy crickets, by all that’s great I’m not swearing; but I am going to express⟳ my opinion of this confounded, nine cornered bazoo of a blamed rickety infernal bit of stove pipe—” Exit the wife with her hands over her ears.”

“When he came to the last⟳ piece, he thought it seemed heavier than the rest⟳, and leaned over to see⟳ better by the street lamp, when to his otter astonishment, he found it was a gold piece; showed it to the policeman, and he told him it was a $2.50 piece. Tim exclaimed “Whew, jimminy crickets! Look⟳ at this, Dick. Two dollars an’ a half.[…]””

““Why, Lovely, what are you doing?” / “Dressing. Didn’t you hear⟳ the bell?” / “Jimminy crickets, what a waste⟳, what an awful waste⟳ of time,” said the Gutter Pup luxuriously, stretching his arms and yawning. “Say⟳, Lovely, I like⟳ you. You’re a good sort⟳ and that was a rattlin’ plucky tackle you made yesterday. Say⟳, we’re going to get⟳ on famously together, only, Lovely, you are green, you know⟳.””

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