See ermahgerd on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "From a humorously altered pronunciation of oh my God. Popularized by an image macro meme in 2012, which features the text \"ermahgerd, Gersberms\" overlaid on a photo of a teenage girl making a silly face and holding several Goosebumps books. The girl in the photo has a visible orthodontic retainer. The pronunciation spelling is intended to mimic the speech of a wearer of this device.", "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "ermahgerd", "name": "en-interj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "intj", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "oh my God" } ], "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English eye dialect", "parents": [ "Eye dialect", "Nonstandard forms", "Terms by orthographic property", "Nonstandard terms", "Terms by lexical property", "Terms by usage" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Internet memes", "orig": "en:Internet memes", "parents": [ "Comedy", "Internet", "Memetics", "Drama", "Computing", "Networking", "Philosophy", "Theater", "Technology", "All topics", "Art", "Entertainment", "Fundamental", "Culture", "Society" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2012 October 24, “Livin' A Teenage Dream”, in X-Press Magazine, number 1341, page 11:", "text": "PLUS (please brace yourselves, fangirls) he's coming to play at the Perth Arena in a few months – ermahgerd.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012 October 25, Travis Homenuk, “Let's all run for mayor”, in The Sheaf, volume 104, number 8, University of Saskatchewan, page 16:", "text": "Here's a scary thought: I'm a Canadian citizen over 18 years of age and I have lived in Saskatoon for more than three months and in Saskatchewan for more than six months. What does this mean? I can run for mayor. Ermahgerd!", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2013 March 3, Robert Epstein, “Being Modern: Macarons”, in The Independent:", "text": "Is that an Alber Elbaz pink-bubblegum macaron you're eating? Ermahgerd! You are so last year.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of oh my God." ], "id": "en-ermahgerd-en-intj-8eNaqRUY", "links": [ [ "humorous", "humorous" ], [ "sarcastic", "sarcastic" ], [ "oh my God", "oh my God#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(slang, humorous or sarcastic) Alternative form of oh my God." ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative", "humorous", "sarcastic", "slang" ], "wikipedia": [ "Goosebumps", "Hurricane Irma" ] } ], "word": "ermahgerd" }
{ "etymology_text": "From a humorously altered pronunciation of oh my God. Popularized by an image macro meme in 2012, which features the text \"ermahgerd, Gersberms\" overlaid on a photo of a teenage girl making a silly face and holding several Goosebumps books. The girl in the photo has a visible orthodontic retainer. The pronunciation spelling is intended to mimic the speech of a wearer of this device.", "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "ermahgerd", "name": "en-interj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "intj", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "oh my God" } ], "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English eye dialect", "English humorous terms", "English interjections", "English lemmas", "English sarcastic terms", "English slang", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Internet memes" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2012 October 24, “Livin' A Teenage Dream”, in X-Press Magazine, number 1341, page 11:", "text": "PLUS (please brace yourselves, fangirls) he's coming to play at the Perth Arena in a few months – ermahgerd.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012 October 25, Travis Homenuk, “Let's all run for mayor”, in The Sheaf, volume 104, number 8, University of Saskatchewan, page 16:", "text": "Here's a scary thought: I'm a Canadian citizen over 18 years of age and I have lived in Saskatoon for more than three months and in Saskatchewan for more than six months. What does this mean? I can run for mayor. Ermahgerd!", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2013 March 3, Robert Epstein, “Being Modern: Macarons”, in The Independent:", "text": "Is that an Alber Elbaz pink-bubblegum macaron you're eating? Ermahgerd! You are so last year.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of oh my God." ], "links": [ [ "humorous", "humorous" ], [ "sarcastic", "sarcastic" ], [ "oh my God", "oh my God#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(slang, humorous or sarcastic) Alternative form of oh my God." ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative", "humorous", "sarcastic", "slang" ], "wikipedia": [ "Goosebumps", "Hurricane Irma" ] } ], "word": "ermahgerd" }
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