by cracky

American  

interjection

Informal: Older Use.

1. (an exclamation used to express surprise or to emphasize a comment).

   A fine day, by cracky!

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Example Sentences

All this is doled out as solemnly as a lantern-slide lecture in German philosophy, with the actors uneasily unsure whether they are really U.S. dirt farmers, by cracky, or Leibnitzian particles in a transcendental ether.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Stung, by cracky," was all I could say, and feeling rather blue I went to the barn where the team was, stroked them and hoped for the best.

From The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Micheaux, Oscar

But, by cracky, since what I've been through a'ready they can't skeer Ichabod.

From When the Cock Crows by Baily, Waldron

"If you don't do it, by cracky, I'll come down and fetch you."

From Little Folks Astray by May, Sophie

It's him, all right, but, by cracky, the ole devil, as well as myself, has changed consider'ble in his attitude toward the other sex, since last we met!

From When the Cock Crows by Baily, Waldron