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Definition of Criminy
1. crimine [interj] - See also: crimine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Criminy
Literary usage of Criminy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"... togs In weather like washing-day, CHARLIE, a season tit only for frogs f As
to cricket, oh, criminy crikey ! It's muck, my dear feller—sheer muck ! ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"I saw a toad under the bench yesterday. Toads are valuable animals, answers Jane.
They eat the Snails LIKE ONE O'CLOCK. O criminy. See CRIMES. ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1898)
"criminy! they was bad. I 'ad a touch of it. And for three days I wanted to die
and get out of such a black world. I 'adn't no more 'ope in me than if I was ..."
4. Up the Rhine by Thomas Hood (1840)
"... wen the roof was took off, I ought to have rrost meself; and to be sure, so
I ought, as well as Sanctus Marh,s, instead of O criminy! ..."
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