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jeepers

Parf of speech: Exclamation, OED Year: 1929, OED Evaluation: slang (orig. U.S.)

Jeez

ExampleMeaning
Up we'd go, up those stairs, over all those vats of cyanide? Holy Jeepers!
Jeez
ExampleMeaning
But even years ago we're on the farm, we sold heifers to ah some young fellows down ah- oh, just out of London ah- oh, jeepers! That makes me mad-
Jeez
ExampleMeaning
He came in and he hit her, and heard the fans go, "Oh!" And I thought "Oh jeepers." And she got up and she skated away. So I thought, "Okay she's- she's al-- she's alright." And it's just kind of, it was just a bur-- a dirty-hit. But I guess two guys came in with their hands out.
Jeez
We- it was a two-day-tournament. We lost her for the next day, and we heard what was going on. We were like "Oh jeepers, poor kid eh?" 'Cause she's only, she's- well actually she's probably fifteen. I always think of her as being terribly young. I think she's fourteen, and she should be fifteen this year.
Jeez
(laughs) Um yeah yeah it was the girls um jeepers about ten years to fifteen years younger than- oh I can't remember (inc) is. Anyway about fourteen years later they finally allowed girls in minor hockey. The girls fourteen years younger than me I should say.
Jeez
ExampleMeaning
And ah- so anyway, I remember this one fellow, his name was Robin-Harris and he said, "Jeepers, Kylie," he said, "If I known you th-- that close I'd had a basket ready in the back."
Jeez
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Fa-- my older f-- fe-- my- my great-great-grandfather helped build that school out there. They were masons and they come from Scotland. Interviewer: Do you know whereabouts in Scotland they came from? Speaker: Jeepers, I don't know much a-- Interviewer: But somewhere in Scotland. Speaker: Yeah they come from Scotl-- they come from Edinburgh I-think, from Edinburgh directly here, but-
Jeez
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Okay. And when did your family um immigrate to this part of the world? Speaker 09: Oh jeepers. Well, they immigrated- I think I'm really a Scottish heritage.
Jeez
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What was it like in the winter when you had a really big storm? Speaker: Then people didn't go. Interviewer: Oh. How high did the snow get? Speaker: Oh jeepers. I don't know how high it would've been.
Jeez
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: She- I was like, "You've been in a freezer dealing with baby milk for far too long." (laughs) Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: Oh, jeepers. Speaker 2: That would be hard.
Jeez
Interviewer: ... the rain yesterday and I swear to God in- it was like people were dumping buckets. For like five minutes I was on the road and it was just like soaked through. All my- and I was- yeah, I'm protecting this like a child. It's like- (laughs) Speaker 2: (laughs) Speaker: Oh jeepers.
Jeez
ExampleMeaning
Okay, to take me back to- as far as I can remember- jeepers, I don't think I can remember anything earlier than when I was four or five years old. Some people can but I sure can't.
Jeez
And when I look back at my home life when I was a little kid, I think of- I think now how lucky I was and, you-know, to- to some of the, ah, grief that goes on in today's living. And jeepers, my dad and mother, I can't believe now how smart they were. I didn't think that then.
Jeez

Jerkwater

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1897, OED Evaluation: Colloquial

small, insignificant, inferior

ExampleMeaning
It's a- it's a half an hour straight drive but because you have to go down every jerkwater road to catch all these other little kids that picked up the bus and…
Small, remote rural settlements

Jibbing

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Like jibbing and wheeling. Like what is that? I don't know what that means. Interviewer 1: Wait, what was the first one? Speaker: Jibbing. Interviewer 1: What's- I don't even know what that means. Speaker: It's like going on a skidoo ride. Interviewer 2: What? Speaker: It's jib-- yeah, I-don't-know.
Going on a skidoo

Jiggered

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1862, OED Evaluation: Dialectal. Slang.

to be tired out, exhausted; so, to be ‘done for’, devitalized. Also actively: to break, destroy, ruin.

ExampleMeaning
With a broken wrist. So then that kind-of jiggered me up so- two hours of chores before you go to the work and two hours to come back and I can't do nothing.
shook/messed

Jigging around

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1598, OED Evaluation: Obsolete.

To sing or play as a jig, or in the style of a jig

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What were you doing? Speaker: Jigging around at everything. Some day hashing, some day helping the man with the flour, some days maybe with the boy with a load of flour. Just do whatever had to be done.
Help
ExampleMeaning
Liv-- Lived there um, say, four years then separated ah and there 's some jigging around in there, but essentially came here in nineteen-sixty-seven.
Help

Jitz

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
With my friends? Um depends we usually for the most part just go to play pool or jitz or just go out and eat wherever McDonald 's um I go out with my friends sometimes we just drive around hit-the-mall um just waste time I guess.
Foosball

Jive

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1943, OED Evaluation: Slang. Originally U.S.

To make sense; to fit in.

ExampleMeaning
Six months I was a, a, full-fledged hairstylist, I said, "This is not what I wanna do," you-know like, I enjoyed washing people's hair and styling and stuff-like-that and um, but to be totally responsible for someone else 's ah you-know image, I- it didn 't jive with me anymore. So um, let 's see um.
To make sense