Jimminy Crickets

See also: jimminy crickets

English

Interjection

Jimminy Crickets

  1. Alternative form of Jiminy Cricket.
    • 1894 February, Ella Beecher Gittings, “A Case of Heredity”, in Overland Monthly, volume XXIII, number 134, San Francisco, Calif.: Overland Monthly Publishing Company […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 133, column 1:
      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.
    • 1908 September, Margaret Mayo, chapter V, in Polly of the Circus, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC, page 53:
      “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!”
    • 1919, Violet Irwin, chapter XXIV, in Wits and the Woman, Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 270:
      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!
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