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Jiminy, Jimminy
now the usual form of Gemini (sense 4). Used esp. in phrases Jiminy Christmas (see Christmas n. 1 c) and Jiminy cricket.
1803G. Colman John Bull i. i. 5 Den. A customer... Mrs. B. Jemmeny! and so there is. c1816[see crimine, -iny int.]. 1848in Amer. Speech (1935) X. 40 By Jiminy Cricket, an exclamation of surprise. 1863[see Gemini 4]. 1890Dialect Notes I. 49 Jimminy Cripes! and Jimminy Christmas! are forms of oaths overheard. 1894J. T. Moore Songs & Stories from Tennessee (1897) 18 Jiminy! But didn't we hab a good time on de road? 1897[see Christmas n. 1 c]. 1930J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel ii. 147 Jimminy criskets [sic], what I couldn't do to a watermelon, Joe. 1934W. Saroyan Daring Young Man (1935) 123 He was telling her. Jiminy crickets. 1940N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys (1941) x. 139 ‘I am completely baffled.’ ‘Jiminy cricket!’ |