![]() ![]() Goodbye (good-bye): Goodbye, see you again soon Good grief: 'Good grief, Charlie Brown. The Golly Geewillikers are a hard-hitting politically driven indie punk band hailing from Haverhill, Massachusetts. English - England 4 Theres some background to the phrase at 'The Word Detective' -> Gee willikers « The Word Detective (OED: golly, int. Gee (gee whiz, gee willikers): Well gee whiz, Pa, why do I have to do that Giddyap (giddyup): Giddyup, Silver Go, horse, go Golly (good golly, golly gee willikers): Golly, that sure was tasty. This substitution of a G-word for God follows ".the old Hebraic and Middle English tradition of avoiding the sacred words, such as God, by substituting words with the same initial letter." A minced oath. Golly-gosh and golly-willikers have, I suspect, been given merely fanciful endings. "I Hear America Talking" by Stuart Berg Flexner (Von Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, 1976). "Gee" by itself is a minced oath for "Jesus," so the "whiz(z)" and "whilli-whatever" still need an explanation. : The spellings begin "wh-." Webster's unabridged, 1934, has "gee whizz" with "gee whilikins" given as a variant, although nobody I know of says "whilikins." It doesn't give an origin. Whats the definition of Golly gee willikers in thesaurus Most related words/phrases with sentence examples define Golly gee willikers meaning and usage. I know that Gee Wizz is a Minced oath for 'Jesus' and am wondering if this is just a variation of Gee Wizz. I have also seen this question posted on another site with no responses.yet. : : I use this expression frequently to express suprise or even use it as a mild reproach. Perhaps it's an extension or elaboration of "gee whiz"? The most helpful tidbit I could find was that it's probably a minced oath based on the info from this website from 2001: This is just my personal preference for a type set.I myself say this phrase and have heard other say it too, but where does it come from? "Golly gee" seems more common, but I'm wondering about the whole phrase if anyone has any info. Maybe I'll toss my Classic Head and put this one in the hole.īy the way, I know there are a lot of people out there who love the Seated series. For now, I'm just a newbie here and this is my first post, so Hi There! Here is my latest acquisition over the weekend. ![]() Some day I'll post pics of my bizarro Dansco. Uh, if (I mean WHEN, darn it) I ever get a small eagle I'm gonna keep it in the safe. Two less Seated quarters means two more holes for my Reich Cap and my heraldic eagle. But I plan to do the same thing with my quarters. (no, I didn't grind off the rim of the dollar A few careful minutes later, and my 1798 Draped Bust dollar fit perfectly in the hole. When a raffle is active, Gilly will teleport to one of the lodestones in Asgarnia and Misthalin and wander around every 30 minutes. During a raffle, he can be talked to once a day to claim an extra raffle ticket for use in the raffle, unless one has already been gained from a daily challenge. 'I Hear America Talking' by Stuart Berg Flexner (Von Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, 1976). Gilly Willikers is a clown who works for Balthazars Big Raffle. So, out comes the Dremel with its nifty sanding cylinder. 'Gee' by itself is a minced oath for 'Jesus,' so the 'whiz (z)' and 'whilli-whatever' still need an explanation. Created exclusively for this fundraiser to our Proud Golly Patrons, a 3x2.5 sticker featuring designs of my collage Anything Goes. ![]() And I don't care what Dansco wants me to do with the holes. Seriously though, at that moment I had an epiphany: I don't care about arrows, rays, mottos. So I traded them in for a single deep struck AU which may actually be an impaired proof (you can tell by the gold color, ya know ) I actually had two F+ seated dollars, neither of which I liked very much. But it was a complete 7070, and it was all mine!Īnd yet the dollars bugged me. Gaah! I got one nice Seated everything, and the rest is filler just to plug the holes. but above all, those despised Seated variations. Hear hear! My pet peeve with the 7070 is its obsession with sub-types: rays/no rays cents/no cents mound/plain bare breast/chain mail. Buy/collect what you like and skip the rest - free yourself to collect what you WANT to collect, not what some (brainless) album "tells" you to collect. ![]()
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