1773. O. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, v. 2. By jingo, there's not a pond or a slough within five miles of the place, but they can tell the taste of.
1824. Atlanta Monthly, i. 141. He swore by George, By Jingo and by Gemini.
1834. M. G. Dowling, Othello Travestie, i. 6. It is the way, by jingo, you are right.
1836. Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log, v. Dem sell a me Peter, by jingo.
1848. Punch, xiv. 172. If I kill you it's nothing; but if you kill me, by jingo it's murder.
1850. F. E. Smedley, Frank Fairleigh, xxvi. There's the coach, by jingo!
1860. Chambers' Jour., xiii. 233. 'Uncle Bob, by jingo!' said the boy.
1864. Press, November 12. Jenco is Basque for the Devil and in the Basque Provinces there were of old Manichæans, who worshipped the evil spirit and naturally swore by him, hence we think the phrase [By jingo] may find a much more likely explanation [than St. Gingoulph].
1871. A. H. Clough, Poems. 'With the Lassie? with her?' the piper exclaimed undoubtedly! 'by great jingo!'
1878. C. H. Wall, tr. Molière, ii. 114. Gently if you please; by jingo, how skilful you are in giving clean plates!
1889. Drage, Cyril, ii. 'Inez de Ribera, by the living jingo!' said he, half out aloud.
1892. Henley and Stevenson, Deacon Brodie, Tab. ii, sc. 2. By jingo! I'll show them how we do it down South.
Subs. (political).—One of that party which advocated the Turkish cause against Russia, in the war of 1877-8. Hence, one clamorous for war; one who advocates a war-*like policy. [In this sense taken directly from the refrain of a popular music-hall song (c. 1874), '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!']. Hence Jingoism = the theory and practice of the Jingoes.
1884. Graphic, 22 Nov. He is a more pernicious kind of Jingo than his predecessors.
1884. Pall Mall Gazette, 12 June. In the days when Jingoism had to be combatted and overcome.
1895. John Morley, in The Times, 17th June, p. 7, col. 5. But then the hight honourable gentleman will ask, Have you proposed a statue to Cromwell from the point of view of Jingoism?
JINIPER-LECTURE, subs. (old).—A
scolding.—B. E. (1690). Cf. Curtain
lecture.
JINK, subs. (old).—1. Coin; money;
chink (q.v.).
2. (in pl.). See High Jinks.
Verb. (old Scots').—To copulate; also to sport. For synonyms see Greens and Ride.
1715. Allan Ramsay, Christ's Kirk, etc. ii. Wks. (1848), i. 324. Was n'er in Scotland heard or seen Sic banquetting and drinkin'—Sic revelling and battles keen, Sic dancing and sic jinkin'.
c. 1750. Robertson (of Struan), Poems, 86. Let pass, let pass, The naughty Glass, And wisely fall a-jinking.
To jink one's tin, verb. phr. (common).—To pay money; to 'shell out'; to rattle or flash (q.v.) one's cash.
JINKER, subs. (venery).—A performer
(q.v.).
1724-27. Ramsay, Clout the Caudron, in Wks. (at sup.), ii, 275. Yet to yourself I'm bauld to tell, I am a gentle jinker.
JINNY, subs. (thieves').—A geneva
watch.
JIPPER, subs. (nautical).—Gravy.
JO, See joe.
JOAN, subs. (old).—A fetter: specifically
Darby and Joan = fetters
coupling two persons. See Darbies.
