biblical name (II Samuel viii.16), used as a mild expletive in American English from 1857; presumably another euphemistic substitution for Jesus.
Jeeves
jeez
Jeff
Jeffersonian
Jeffrey
Jehosaphat
Jehovah
Jehovist
Jehu
jejune
jejunum
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