{"id":7169,"date":"2012-06-21T15:50:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T15:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2012-06-21T15:50:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T15:50:21","slug":"jeepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7169","title":{"rendered":"Jeepers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/rnag\/\">Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta<\/a> (Irish language radio) today I noticed much use of the word &#8220;<strong>Jeepers!<\/strong>&#8220;. It&#8217;s not a word I&#8217;ve heard much before so it caught my attention.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/jeepers\">Free Dictionary,<\/a> <strong>jeepers<\/strong> is used to express surprise or annoyance and is a euphemism for Jesus. A variation on this, &#8220;Jeepers creepers!&#8221;, is apparently used mainly in the USA and Canada. Another related expression is &#8220;Jeez!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Do you use any of these words? If not, what (non swear) words do you use to express surprise or annoyance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta (Irish language radio) today I noticed much use of the word &#8220;Jeepers!&#8220;. It&#8217;s not a word I&#8217;ve heard much before so it caught my attention. According to the Free Dictionary, jeepers is used to express surprise or annoyance and is a euphemism for Jesus. A variation on this, &#8220;Jeepers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,127,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-irish","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}