jumping Jehoshaphat

English

Interjection

jumping Jehoshaphat

  1. (US, dated) Used to express astonishment
    • 1866, Mayne Reid, The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas, London: Richard Bentley, page 100:
      By the jumpin' Geehosofat, what a gurl she air sure enuf!

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