Jesus adj.
(US/W.I.) a general intensifier, e.g. not one Jesus shilling, not one damned adj./cursed shilling.
Bottom Dogs 233: Everybody said outside after Sunday church was over, that it was a Jesus pity that a good, worked-to-deathed woman should be hitched up to a godless man like Jeremy Maxwell. | ||
Late Emancipation of Jerry Stover (1982) 152: A smoke? The weed never solve’ a Jesus t’ing, son. [Ibid.] 167: Not one Jesus Chris’ rass. | ||
Great Santini (1977) 346: ‘Un-Jesus-Christ-believable,’ Matthew exhaled. | ||
Harder They Come 130: Every Jesas t’ing. An me maddah money too. | ||
Commitments 41: What’s fuckin’ dignified abou’ dressin’ up like a jaysis penguin? | ||
Snapper 144: Every jaysis one o’ them. |