Crossword clues for jiminy
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exclamation of surprise, 1803, a disguised oath, perhaps for Jesu Domine "Jesus Lord." Extended form jiminy cricket is attested from 1848 and suggests Jesus Christ (compare also Jiminy Christmas, 1890).
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Usage examples of "jiminy".
Vic Vincent and the carrot-headed Yorkshireman Fynedale, Ronnie North and Jiminy Bell.
Jiminy, as the wrestlers circled each other, then reached out their hands tentatively.
Jiminy altered his image again, and the Dancer looked from him to the photograph of Doc Holliday that he held in his hand, and then back again.
Where the Dancer had drawn only a smattering of grudgingly given applause, the Doc Holliday robot was given a standing ovation despite the crowd's partisanship, and a statue of him was already on the drawing board before he, Tojo, and Jiminy left Darbeena and returned, at long and bloody last, to the carnival.
Maybe Jiminy was like kind of a sign, the way he turned into Doc Holliday that first day he was on the ship.
He was ancient and vigorous, as powerful as a joker in the deck, a worn but still potent magician, an evil Jiminy Cricket.
I'm reasonably sure that in Disney's Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket never sits on the brow of the whale.
It all would have been easier if Stark could have gotten into the apartment first, as he had done with the bitch, but a single glance was enough to convince him that these locks, unlike hers, had not been put in by jiminy Cricket.
As I've said elsewhere, I see myself as a combination of Jiminy Cricket and Zorro.