Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
Originally Posted By: Gene K
I believe Krikey / Crikey was a modification of a swear word to make it more acceptable. Simular to Darn in the USA.
That's the way to do it! Put an `e` between the `k` and the `y`. Why didn't I think of that ?
Merc the closest I would say is Holy Smoke.
I have never seen so many posts by you in a thread which had nothing to do with OPs query.
Funny though.
I was fooling around and found link below.
http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/CRIKEY
Originally Posted By: Gene K
I believe Krikey / Crikey was a modification of a swear word to make it more acceptable. Simular to Darn in the USA.
That's the way to do it! Put an `e` between the `k` and the `y`. Why didn't I think of that ?

Merc the closest I would say is Holy Smoke.
I have never seen so many posts by you in a thread which had nothing to do with OPs query.
Funny though.
I was fooling around and found link below.
http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/CRIKEY
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