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jingo
noun as in hawk
Strong matches
Example Sentences
“Py Jingo!” was Hans’s contribution.
“Py jingo! I t’ink so mineself,” Hans affirmed.
In an 1899 letter, James made it clear that he did not approve of Kipling’s more blustery talk of the “white man’s burden” and so on: “I wish he would hearken a bit more to his deeper human self and a bit less to his shallower jingo self. If the Anglo-Saxon race would drop its sniveling cant it would have a good deal less of a ‘burden’ to carry.”
“By jingo, we can get them now,” cried one of the men.
"In a democracy everybody speaks,” said Dad, "so, by jingo, start speaking.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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