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by jingo
noun a frozen flavoured confection on a stick.: Who wants a bigingo? Compare iceblock, icy pole, paddle-pop. Also, bi jingo, bye jingo, bigingo.
Contributor's comments: In Townsville during the 60's and 70's we'd wait to hear the bell of the bi-jingo man's van. He'd drive around the streets in summer. He would happily sell a single bi-jingo, you didn't have to buy packets. My favourite was pink lemonade.
Contributor's comments: I grew up in Townsville in Nth QLD and still live here. Bigingo was definitely an iceblock when I was a kid. Sometimes when talking about the past with workmates I mention this term and they are amazed by it.
Contributor's comments: Was born in Townsville. Definitely iceblock on a stick. Alternative spelling byjingo.
Contributor's comments: I lived in Townsville in 1970's and yes byjingos was the name we used for ice blocks. Possibly what I have heard southerners call icy poles. I don't remember the byjingo man doing the rounds of the streets, but I do remember the Mr Whippy man driving the streets in the 1960's when I lived in Mackay. Of course the Mr Whippy Man has now been superceded by the Home Icecream Man ... thanks to franchising.
Contributor's comments: (noun) an ice confectionary on a stick. Sometimes known as a paddlepop. Used until about 1980, then the migration of southern people to the north led to the use of the word losing favour: "A bijingo an a hot day is very refreshing, but you have to be carefull not to let it melt before you can eat it."
Contributor's comments: A bye jingo is an ice block or popsicle. I believe that it was actually the brand name of one of the first ice blocks released. It can also be used as an exclamation: "Can you buy me a bye jingo Mum?" OR "Bye jingos he was big!"
Contributor's comments: I grew up in Ayr N.Q. in the 60s and remember bi jingo as being a water based flavoured ice block. I believed that it was a term peculiar to N.Q. but have just discussed this with my husband who grew up in Brisbane at the same time and he recalls waiting for the icecream man to come to buy a bi jingo - either orange or lemonade flavoured.
Contributor's comments: This was a word we commonly used growing up in Bowen, NQ in the late 70's and early 80's. We would go for a swim at the beach in our togs and then dad would buy us a by jingo. I now reside in the NT and no one has ever heard of this word. I can remember being told that the origin of the word came from the brand name of a NZ ice block, so I have no idea how it came to be a term used by North Queenslanders!
Contributor's comments: We used this word quite a lot and still do and have heard it as far north as Cairns.
Contributor's comments: "by jingo" was used for an ice block on a stick in Townsville in the 60's. I have a feeling that it was distributed by Peters Icecream and the advertising had a catch phrase ,"by jingo, that's good".
Contributor's comments: I grew up in Ayr N.Q. in the 60s and remember bi jingo as being a water based flavoured ice block. I believed that it was a term peculiar to N.Q. but have just discussed this with my husband who grew up in Brisbane at the same time and he recalls waiting for theicecream man to cometo by a bi jingo - either orange or lemonade flavoured.