Example sentences for: jingo

How can you use “jingo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • My suspicions aroused, I found that a number of entries had neither a nautical origin nor, perceivably, any nautical connection: jingo , offered as probably a Basque word, acquires a nautical connection because Basques were among the earliest organised whalers in Europe, and as harpooners their expressions would have carried some weight with other seafarers.

  • I noted the references to tweeter and boomer or wow and hum in Harry Cohen's article, “Jingo Lingo” [XVI,4].

  • I'd like to add a word to Harry Cohen's delightful list in “Jingo Lingo” [XVI, 4].

  • Permit me a few observations on Don Webb's addendum [XVII, 2] to Harry Cohen's “Jingo Lingo” [XVI, 4].

  • origin of infra dig, take the cake, blackball, sand hog, Dutch courage, hoodlum(ism), horse latitudes, flotsam, jetsam, apple-pie bed/apple-pie order, jingo


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