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By cracky

Posted by Ken Hammond on November 14, 2006

My grandfather in northern Missouri uses a lot of colorful phrases. One of the funniest is "by cracky", used in place of "by golly". For example, "It's a hot one today, by cracky!"

Does anyone know the origin of this phrase?

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