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noun

Jingo n. (pl. jingoes)

A word used as a jocular oath. "By the living jingo."

A statesman who pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs; a bellicose superpatriot or chavinist. (Cant, Eng.) Note: This sense arose from a doggerel song which was popular during the Turco-Russian war of 1877 and 1878. The first two lines were as follows: "We don't want to fight, but by Jingo if we do, We 've got the ships, we 've got the men, we 've got the money too."

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"Jingo" Quotes from Famous Books

... colour and texture of men's thought on these subjects has undergone a notable transformation. Cosmopolitanism of the old type is a slain hallucination. Capital in our time is not content to be a patriot, it is a Jingo. As to labour, if we turn to its politics we find Herr Bebel declaring that the German socialist is first of all a German, and Mr Ramsay MacDonald pledging his adherents to support any war necessary for the assertion of English ...

— The Open Secret of Ireland • T. M. Kettle

... jingo! not till he treats us," cried one of the women; "why did he come into this shop, but for nothing else? I'll have my ...

— Snarleyyow • Captain Frederick Marryat

... breakfast late. Old Peter has a long round, but he don't mind dat, so he gits de money. Den all de quality knows old Peter, and how de hats come off and de ladies smile when de New Year comes round again. Humph! Jingo! How stiff dis knee! When old Peter dead and gone, nebber find anodder carrier like him. Peter nebber stop for nuffin, de rain nor de shine, de northers nor de anything-umph! not even de rheumatiz." Here the old man cut short ...

— Leah Mordecai • Mrs. Belle Kendrick Abbott

... meantime it may be remarked that the Dutchman had got Bull's boys to build some new boats for him, and he was now doing a better business than he had ever done before. Uncle Sam looked on and observed, "By jingo, this here's a fix; I've asked my family to hand over the cash to support these carpenters of mine, and they say they'll see me——; well, never mind what, and now that whole raft of boys, who were earning money for me on the ...

— Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade • John Codman

... bonnet shop, than minding the interests of the county. 'Pension'—ha!—wants it sure enough;—take care, O'Grady, or, by the powers, I'll be at you. You may baulk all the bailiffs, and defy any other man to serve you with a writ; but, by jingo! if I take the matter in hand, I'll be bound I'll get it done. 'Stephen's Green—big ditch—where I used to hunt water-rats.' Divil sweep you, Murphy, you'd rather be hunting water-rats any day than minding your business. ...

— Handy Andy, Volume One - A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes • Samuel Lover

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