![]() ![]() From Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997). ![]() You can’t buy friends with money, holds up even today on retro TV cable channels. Golly gee willikers, only my will occurs Victorious, will emerge This one is for the birds Blue avians to doves and eagle nebula Blue alien bud. West’s deadpan delivery of lines like, Remember, Riddler. Word dictionary gee gee-whillikers definition: Words near gee-whillikers in the dictionary. I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated History of American Words and Phrases by Stuart Berg Flexner (Von Nostrand Reinhold Co. And it hit crazily, airing twice a week on ABC with an audience share of more than 50 meaning more than half of everybody watching anything was watching Batman. Other sources have some variations but no information on why "whillikens" or willikers: jewillikin gee whiz gee whitaker. In Reply to: Gee willikers posted by James Beaton on August 30, 2001: Is this the same as 'Gee whiz' Yes. 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. I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated History of American Words and Phrases by Stuart Berg Flexner (Von Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, 1976). : : I know it's probably american and I know that gee was supposedly a kid's reference to god but does anyone know where "willikers" came from and when the phrase was first used? ![]() In Reply to: Gee Willikers posted by ESC on October 10, 2003 A lot of the meaning of an interjection comes from the context of the conversation and inflection of the speaker. ![]()
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