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gosh

intj · name · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɡɒʃ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ɡɑːʃ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɒʃ
  • CMU ARPABET: G AA1 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

intj

Meaning 1

A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: euphemistic

Qualifier: minced oath

Examples

  • Gosh, I didn’t realize I’d cause so much trouble!
  • Gosh, I’d love to go to that concert!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: adzooks, ay, caramba, mirabile dictu, chihuahua, begorra, bleeding heck, bleeding Nora, bless my heart, bless my soul, bless us, blige, blimey, bloody hell, bloody Nora, 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, chuffing hell, dear God, dear me, dearie me, deary me, dear Lord, diggety, eep, egad, egads, ermahgerd, fancy that, flaming Nora, flipping heck, flipping Nora, fuark, fuck me, fucking hell, 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, 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 hell, 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

2

name

Meaning 2

Initialism of Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Altered from God. First seen in 1757 as by gosh, probably from by gosse in Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (circa 1553).

Across languages

Translations

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: Աստվա՜ծ իմ — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Catalan: ostres — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Chinese Mandarin: 唉 (āi) — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Chinese Mandarin: 啊呀 (āyā) — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Czech: hrome — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Czech: jejda — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Czech: jémine — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Czech: božínku — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Czech: šmarjá — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Dutch: gossie — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Esperanto: ĉielo — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Finnish: jukra — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Finnish: jumpe — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Finnish: juku — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Finnish: samperi — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Finnish: peijakas — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • French: bon sang — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Galician: carai — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Galician: carafio — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Galician: diola — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • German: meine Güte — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • German: Mensch — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • German: Mann — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Greek: αμάν (amán) — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Hiligaynon: abá — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Italian: perbacco — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Italian: accidenti — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Italian: diamine — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Italian: accipicchia — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Macedonian: ле́ле (léle) — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Macedonian: Бо́же! (Bóže) — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Māori: aeha — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Māori: ēhe — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Māori: ai — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Māori: wī — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Māori: āwaiā — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Norwegian: jøss — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Norwegian: jøsses — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Norwegian: jøssenam — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Polish: kurczę — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Polish: o matko — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Polish: jeju — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Polish: jejku — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Polish: jej — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Polish: o ja cię — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Polish: a to ci dopiero — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Portuguese: meu Deus — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Portuguese: nossa! — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Portuguese: poxa — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Portuguese: puxa — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Portuguese: caramba! — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Portuguese: com a breca! — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Russian: Бо́же! (Bóže) — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Spanish: Dios mío — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Spanish: caramba — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Spanish: cáspita — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Spanish: jolines — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Spanish: joroba — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Spanish: caracoles — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Spanish: pardiez — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Swedish: jisses — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Swedish: jösses — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Turkish: Allah Allah — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Turkish: anne — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
  • Turkish: aneyy — mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm