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- interjection Scotland An
exclamation ofsurprise .
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Examples
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I still occasionally hear the odd "jings" but surely "crivens" and "help ma boab" are due a return.
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March 14th, 2010 at 8:02 pm jings, yous are awfy feart o any alternative theories.
World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010
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Airport guy 2 - "No, it may be the end of the world but by jings we are going to honour our rental agreement!"
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My souls and by jings, should he work his jaw to give down the banks and hark from the tomb!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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By jings; I bet there are some heckles rising in the ID crowd.
Intelligent Design to be taught at University of Kansas - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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I poked into the place a-ways and come to a little open patch as big as a bedroom all hung around with vines, and found a man laying there asleep — and, by jings, it was my old
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“By jings, Poe, but you are a regular barrel of fun,” he said as he stepped to my side.
Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999
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And when his bill came in, by jings, it always made me hot; he'd have me charged with divers things I knew I never bought.
Rippling Rhymes Walt Mason
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"You have got to lick him some day, or he won't be happy; and by jings! it will be worth seein ', too."
The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa Ralph Connor 1898
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By jings, sir, you've got to be foolish or a woman will think you've ceased to love her.
The Jucklins A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895
sonofgroucho commented on the word jings
As in "Jings! Crivens! Help ma boab!".
January 2, 2007