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==Etymology==
==Etymology==
The word ''“jingo”'' is a British English form of “golly”, “gosh”, “gee” etc. and is always part of the term “by jingo!”. The term found its way into a music halls as ''McDermott's War Song'' during the Turko-Russian War in the late 1870s when British anti-Russian sentiment was still strong after the [[Crimean War]] less than a generation before.<ref>https://youtu.be/42AgsaNHbKs</ref>
The word ''“jingo”'' is a British English form of “golly”, “gosh”, “gee” etc. and is always part of the term “by jingo!”. The term found its way into a music halls as ''McDermott's War Song'' during the Turko-Russian War in the late 1870s when [[British]] [[anti-Russian]] sentiment was still strong after the [[Crimean War]] less than a generation before.<ref>https://youtu.be/42AgsaNHbKs</ref>
The chorus went:
The chorus went:
:::''"We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do''
:::''"We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do''