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jeepers

Parf of speech: Exclamation, OED Year: 1929, OED Evaluation: slang (orig. U.S.)

Jeez

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Oh it was a scary show you-know. There were lots of good shows in Belleville, especially the Belle you-see. And Frankenstein, holy jeepers. There was two horror shows one night you-know and I got home late that night and when I got out in the morning the cows were back in the apple orchard.
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Interviewer: I was at the university and in a class with five-hundred students and no one told us. And our class went from nine 'til noon. Speaker: Jeepers!
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Oh my. Jeepers creepers. Well as I say, I wonder where the years went really, you-know?
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Speaker: Like you- there- my parents taught us that there's always a solution, there's never a reason to be angry. And if there is, fix it. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: So, when I went to this house and saw the arguing, I thought, "Oh jeepers." So that- that unnerved me as well. I guess I- I didn't know if I li-- lived a sheltered life or just a darn good one.
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We been up in the winter time and tried ice fishing and nothing at all (dog barks). Jeepers. Ah in the winter time we been up there and we caught nothing at winter time at all so- it's um, it's pretty- pretty quiet (laughs).
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Up we'd go, up those stairs, over all those vats of cyanide? Holy Jeepers!
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But even years ago we're on the farm, we sold heifers to ah some young fellows down ah- oh, just out of London ah- oh, jeepers! That makes me mad-
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He came in and he hit her, and heard the fans go, "Oh!" And I thought "Oh jeepers." And she got up and she skated away. So I thought, "Okay she's- she's al-- she's alright." And it's just kind of, it was just a bur-- a dirty-hit. But I guess two guys came in with their hands out.
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We- it was a two-day-tournament. We lost her for the next day, and we heard what was going on. We were like "Oh jeepers, poor kid eh?" 'Cause she's only, she's- well actually she's probably fifteen. I always think of her as being terribly young. I think she's fourteen, and she should be fifteen this year.
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(laughs) Um yeah yeah it was the girls um jeepers about ten years to fifteen years younger than- oh I can't remember (inc) is. Anyway about fourteen years later they finally allowed girls in minor hockey. The girls fourteen years younger than me I should say.
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And ah- so anyway, I remember this one fellow, his name was Robin-Harris and he said, "Jeepers, Kylie," he said, "If I known you th-- that close I'd had a basket ready in the back."
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Speaker: Fa-- my older f-- fe-- my- my great-great-grandfather helped build that school out there. They were masons and they come from Scotland. Interviewer: Do you know whereabouts in Scotland they came from? Speaker: Jeepers, I don't know much a-- Interviewer: But somewhere in Scotland. Speaker: Yeah they come from Scotl-- they come from Edinburgh I-think, from Edinburgh directly here, but-
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Interviewer: Okay. And when did your family um immigrate to this part of the world? Speaker 09: Oh jeepers. Well, they immigrated- I think I'm really a Scottish heritage.
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Interviewer: What was it like in the winter when you had a really big storm? Speaker: Then people didn't go. Interviewer: Oh. How high did the snow get? Speaker: Oh jeepers. I don't know how high it would've been.
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Interviewer: She- I was like, "You've been in a freezer dealing with baby milk for far too long." (laughs) Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: Oh, jeepers. Speaker 2: That would be hard.
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Interviewer: ... the rain yesterday and I swear to God in- it was like people were dumping buckets. For like five minutes I was on the road and it was just like soaked through. All my- and I was- yeah, I'm protecting this like a child. It's like- (laughs) Speaker 2: (laughs) Speaker: Oh jeepers.
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Okay, to take me back to- as far as I can remember- jeepers, I don't think I can remember anything earlier than when I was four or five years old. Some people can but I sure can't.
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And when I look back at my home life when I was a little kid, I think of- I think now how lucky I was and, you-know, to- to some of the, ah, grief that goes on in today's living. And jeepers, my dad and mother, I can't believe now how smart they were. I didn't think that then.
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