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jimminy

jimminy is the alternative form of jiminy.

Meaning of jiminy

Interjection

  1. (dated) An expression of mild surprise or annoyance.
    • He sat up with a jerk. "Holy Jiminy! How did you figure all that out?"1917, Elaine Sterne, The Road of Ambition, New York, N.Y.: Britton Publishing Company, page 120

Phrases with jimminy

Questions about jimminy

What is jimminy the alternative form of?
Jimminy is the alternative form of jiminy.

Words near jimminy in the dictionary

  1. jimmied
  2. jimmied up
  3. jimmies
  4. jimmies up
  5. jimming up
  6. jimminy
  7. jimminy cricket
  8. jimminy crickets
  9. jimmy
  10. Jimmy Britts
  11. jimmy cap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jimminy (page history and authors); jiminy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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