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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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jings
noun plural
a mild expletive:
A blackbird was filling itself with my tasty crumbs. ‘Jings, I’m not needing a bird of that size,’...
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etymology:
Scots; attested by
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note:
In Modern Scots this is mostly used jocularly or ironically.