Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
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adv
Placed after an interrogative term to add emphasis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, informal, not-comparable, rare, regional
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
intj
An expression of dismay, disgust, anger, surprise etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, informal, rare, regional
Synonyms: fucking hell, bleeding hell, chuffing hell, ruddy hell, bloody heck, bleeding heck, flipping heck, bloody Nora, holy crap, goddamn, adzooks, ay, caramba, mirabile dictu, chihuahua, begorra, bleeding Nora, bless my heart, bless my soul, bless us, blige, blimey, bloody hell, blow me, blow me backwards, blow me down, blow me over, blow me pink, blow me tight, blow me up, blow my buttons, butter my butt and call me a biscuit, by all that is holy, by Allah, by cracky, by George, by God, by golly, by gosh, by gum, by gummy, by jingo, by Jove, by juckies, by Jupiter, by thunder, by the living jingo, byrlady, Christ, Christ alive, Christ almighty, Christ on a bike, Christ on a cracker, Christ on a raft, Christ on a stick, Christ on a crutch, coo, cor, cor blimey, cor lummy, cowabunga, crikey, criminy, cripes, crivvens, dear God, dear me, dearie me, deary me, dear Lord, diggety, eep, egad, egads, ermahgerd, fancy that, flaming Nora, flipping Nora, fuark, fuck me, fucking Nora, gad so, Gadsbodikins, gadsbud, gadzooks, gaw, gee, gee whiz, gee willikers, geeminy, geez, geez Louise, geshmak, get out of town, glory be, God Almighty, God in heaven, God's teeth, good golly, golly, golly gee willikers, golly gosh, good God, good gracious, good gravy, good grief, good heavens, good Lord, goodness, goodness gracious, goodness gracious me, goodness me, googly-moogly, gorblimey, Gordon Bennett, gosh, gosh all hemlock, gracious, gramercy, great balls of fire, great Caesar, great Caesar's ghost, great googly moogly, great Scott, gyatt, hallo, hello, heavens, heavens above, heavens to Betsy, heavens to Murgatroyd, hell's bells, hey, heyday, hold up, holy buckets, holy cannoli, holy cow, holy crap on a cracker, holy cricket, holy crickets, holy crud, holy dignity, holy doodle, holy fuck, holy fuck knuckles, holy fudge, holy guacamole, holy Hannah, holy hell, holy kamoley, holy kamoly, holy macaroni, holy mackerel, holy magnum, holy moley, holy moly, holy man, holy Moses, Holy Mother, Holy Mother of God, holy ravioli, holy shit, holy stromboli, holy smoke, holy Toledo, hooly dooly, hot damn, I'll be, I'll be a dirty bird!, I'll be a monkey's uncle, I'll be a son of a bitch, I'll be a son of a gun, I'll be blowed, I'll be bound, I'll be buggered, I'll be damned, I'll be danged, I'll be darned, I'll be dashed, I'll be dipped, I'll be dipped in shit, I'll be hanged, I'll be hornswoggled, I'll be jiggered, I'll be shot, imagine that, I'm blowed, I say, Janey Mack, Jaysus, Jeebus, jeepers, jeepers creepers, jeez, jeez Louise, jeezy peeps, jeezy-peezy, Jerusalem crickets, Jesum Crow, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus fuck, Jesus H. Christ, Mary and Joseph, Jesus Murphy, Jiminy Cricket, jings, jinkies, Judas Priest, jumping Jehoshaphat, jumping Jesus, Jupiter, knock me down with a feather, knock me over with a feather, land sakes, lauks, lawks, lawks a-mercy, lawl, leapin' lizards, Lord, Lord be praised, Lord love a duck, lordy, mama mia, mamma mia, man alive, mercy sakes, Mother of God, mother of Pearl, my, my conscience, my giddy aunt, my heavens, my sainted aunt, my sainted uncle, my God, my goodness, my gosh, my Lord, my my, my word, no way, O gemini, ods bodikin, odsfish, odzookens, oh, oh em gee, ohmigod, oh my, oh my days, oh my God, oh my Goddess, oh my goodness, oh my goodness gracious, oh my gosh, oh my hell, oh my heck, oh my fuck, oh my life, oh my Lord, oh my stars, oh my word, oi, OMG, omigod, omigosh, peas and rice, please, praise the Lord, rah, ruddy Nora, sacré bleu, sakes alive, 'sblood, 'sdeath, shart, 'sheart, sheesh, shit fire and save matches, shitting Nora, shiver my timbers, shut my mouth, shut the front door, slap my ass and call me Judy, slap my ass and call me Sally, snakes alive, sodding hell, son of a gun, stone me, stone the crows, strewth, strike me pink, 'struth, suffering centipedes, suffering Moses, suffering Sappho, suffering succotash, sweet Grandma on stilts, sweet Jesus, sweet Mary, sweet mother of God, sweet mother of Jesus, waow, well, I never, what, what do you know, whoa, whoah, wow, wowee, wowzers, ye gods, yikes, yikes bikes, you don't say, yowzah, zoiks, zoinks, ZOMG, ZOMFG, zooterkins, zound, zounds, zowie
Antonyms: none provided
History
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
