jingo! excl.
a euph. for by Jesus! also intensified as by the living jingo!
Cutter of Coleman-street (1721) 775: Hey, Boys – Gingo. | ||
Gentleman’s Journal Feb. 24: Hye, jingo, what a deel’s the matter [F&H]. | ||
Double Gallant V i: By Gingo, Captain, but I won’t —. | ||
Memoirs of the Life of Lady H 14: By jingo, Girl, I’d have you take care of yourself. | ||
Midas III ii: By jingo! well performed for one of his age. | ||
Vicar of Wakefield (1883) 56: By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat. | ||
Evelina (1861) 452: By Jingo, it has served me for a most excellent joke ever since. | ||
Reading Mercury 3 May 4/2: What! a bribe —out of my stall or by gingo I’ll stick my awl to the head in your —. | ||
Contrast II:2: By the living jingo, I had a month’s mind to buss her. | ||
Farmer 17: Just as your Country Folks [swear] ‘Odibodikins’ ‘Gadzookens’ and ‘by the living Jingo’. | ||
Belinda (1994) 94: We shall be at dinner as soon as the best of ’em after all, by jingo. | ||
Poetical Works 185: At last of wine they weary grew, / They swore, by jingo, ’twas too new. | ‘The Quayside Shaver’||
N.-Y. Eve. Post 8 Jan. 2/4–5: Says I, Tom, says I, by the Lord Harry its only 2 o’clock, and we ha’nt had our spree half out yet. Less blow it out again. ‘Agreed by jingo,’ says he, — and so we started off. | ||
Lawrie Todd I Pt II 92: [The] blacksmith [...] offered me two hundred and fifty dollars – gospel, by the living jingo! | ||
Major Downing (1834) 63: Jingoe! | ||
‘Lady’s Front’ Knowing Chaunter 6: Why, Jenny, by Jingo, betwixt your two thighs, / Egad I have found your long lost hairy front! | ||
High Life in N.Y. I 45: By the living jingo! how it makes the blood bile and tingle. | ||
Peregrine Pultuney I 35: ‘By the living jingo [...] if Mother Radix were to see you’ . | ||
Manchester Times 24 May 2/5: Tom’s noan ov givvin in soart — iv ee gets howd by gingo he’l stik. | ||
Satanstoe I 68: ‘Buttermilk, by Jingo,’ exclaimed the disappointed pedagogue. Saint Jingo was the only saint, and a ‘darnation,’ or ‘darn you,’ were the only oaths, his puritan education ever allowed him to use. | ||
N.Y. Clipper 2 July 1/2: ‘By jing, Ma [...] Pa says I’m a roarer so I shall go out’. | ||
Argus (Melbourne) 24 Mar. 6/7: The hon. Baronet also adorned his so-called lecture with such choice phrases as ‘lingo,’ ‘jingo,’ ‘a brick of a Governor,’ and various other specimens of slang phraseology. | ||
Paved with Gold 398: By jingo! if the rogues see this, it ought to make them tremble in their confounded boots. | ||
Letters to Young People 141: If a young man should ‘kind o’ shine up to you,’ and you should ‘cotton to him,’ and he should hear you say ‘by the jumping Moses,’ or ‘by the living jingo,’ [...] he would pretty certainly ‘evaporate.’. | ||
Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 9 Nov. 216: Kinchins and cullies, all must have their bingo, / Keep the lush from them and they’ll lope, by jingo! | ||
Derby Day 68: By jingoes! it’s Tony Rous. | ||
Democratic Press (Ravenna, OH) 27 May 1/3: ‘Let’s raise the ante to twenty dollars,’ said Sparks [...] ‘Jingo! it’s too much! You’ll bust me!’ exclaimed Brown. | ||
Won in a Canter I 53: ‘By Jingo!’ burst out a score of voices; ‘then he is in England’. | ||
Lays of Ind (1905) 83: ‘Diddled, by Jingo! Done to a turn!’. | ||
Auckland Eve. Star (Supp.) 30 Oct. 6/2: And by the whatshisname Jingo, before you can say Jack Robinson, she plumps down all her back-hair on my cambric front. | ||
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 211: I’ll foller him; I will, by jingoes! | ||
Dick Temple III 212: ‘By the living Jingo!’ he exclaimed. | ||
Huge Hunter in Beadle’s Half Dime Library XI:271 5/2: Jingo! | ||
Bread-Winners (1884) 232: By jingo! it wasn’t half a flash before another fellow slapped him. | ||
‘’Arry on Equality’ Punch 22 Feb. 85/2: When Science and Saintship shake hands, in a sperret of sound common sense, / To chuck over the cant of the Pulpit, by Jingo, old pal, it’s Himmense! | ||
M.S. Bradford Special 34: By the living Jingo, Renton! | ||
‘Dads Wayback’ in Sun. Times (Sydney) 19 July 3/3: ‘Make rain,’ they sez, ‘or, by the livin’ Jingo, off goes yer napper’. | ||
Conversational Hints 241: Done again, by the living Jingo! | ||
New Boys’ World 22 Dec. 84: By Jingo, the old woman is an old man, or I’ll eat my hat! | ||
Union Jack 5 May 17: By jingo, we’ll make him hop for it yet! | ||
Sun & N.Y. Herald 6 June 66/2: I’ve got to have a raise! I’ll tackle the big chief right now b’jingoes! | ||
Ulysses 107: The gravediggers took up their spades and flung heavy clods of clay in on the coffin. Mr Bloom turned his face. And if he was alive all the time? Whew! By Jingo! That would be awful! | ||
Babbitt (1974) 16: He whistled the ballad ‘Oh, by gee, by gosh, by jingo’. | ||
🎵 They hug and kiss each night, / By jingo, boys, worth that price! | ‘Nagasaki’||
Aus. Vulgarisms [t/s] 6: Jesus: Jeez, jeewizz, gee, jiminy, by Jove, by George, by jingo, by jingies, jericho, jerusalem. [added in pencil: Jiminy Cricket. | ||
Dly Capital Jrnl (Salem, OR) 24 July 12/3: [cartoon caption] I reckon thers some class to me, by Jickity!!! | ||
Oh Boy! No. 213: By Jingo! That’s the plane. | ||
Nil Carborundum (1963) Act III: We don’t want to fight, but by jingo if we do / We’ll be known to all the nations as the mighty precious few. | ||
Any Old Dollars, Mister? 119: Jingos! I got one helluva beltin’ for heaving that rock on our roof. | ||
Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant (1978) Scene iii: Oh bejingoes! | ||
Time Was (1981) Act II: But by jingo, it’s worth trying. | ||
Plays: 2 (1993) Act I: Jack Frost is comin’ with a vengeance for you tonight – Or the Bogey Man maybe bejingoes! | Thief of a Christmas in||
Dandy Comic Library Special No. 11 66: By jingo! | ||
Sudden Times 143: By Jingo, is that so? | ||
Case of Exploding Mangoes (2009) 278: By jingo, let’s suck the national security. | ||
Empty Wigs (t/s) 216: The height of our imperium coincided with the height of our gluttonous appetite for opium [...] But by jingo there was no coincidence. It was the cause. |