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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

... "By Jingo!" he muttered, beginning to assemble the empty coffee-cups on a tray. "Things is wakin' up here, ...

— Number Seventeen • Louis Tracy

... characterises them to-day would have been dismissed with horror. The 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 prestige. If we turn to its theoretical ...

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

... rising with all the coolness of an old campaigner accustomed to encounter and face the ups and downs of life. "I only hope to goodness they'll run straight on to Paris," he added in a fervent tone, not unmixed with apprehension. "No! By jingo, ...

— The Rome Express • Arthur Griffiths

... "'I jinks! (by Jingo!) Seward has been rewriting the same paragraph. I believe you have beat Seward, but I think ...

— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams

... using." In the 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 ferry, are digging clams ...

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

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