“Jeepers Creepers, where’d ya get those peepers?” Now there’s a phrase you probably haven’t heard for a while. Perhaps you’ve never heard it. The line is from a song recorded by Louis Armstrong in the late 1930s.
At the time of the recording, the word jeepers was quite common but I haven’t heard it used for years. I recall hearing jeepers as an exclamation back when I was a kid. For example, “Jeepers, that’s a swell bicycle!”
Peepers, of course, referred to the eyes. And swell was an adjective; nowadays it is a verb…