See golly on Wiktionary
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Did she?” “In person.”\n[...]\n “And after I had seethed for a bit I rose from my chair, took pen in hand and wrote Bobbie a stinker.” “Oh, gosh!” “I put my whole soul into it.” “Oh, golly!”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "God!" ], "id": "en-golly-en-intj-AeaPaMjY", "raw_glosses": [ "(euphemistic) God!" ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "wow" }, { "word": "gollies" } ], "tags": [ "euphemistic" ], "translations": [ { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "Translations", "word": "caramba" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "Translations", "word": "cielos" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈɡɒli/" }, { "audio": "EN-AU ck1 golly.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cb/EN-AU_ck1_golly.ogg/EN-AU_ck1_golly.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/EN-AU_ck1_golly.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ɒli" } ], "word": "golly" } { "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_text": "From golliwog.", "forms": [ { "form": "gollies", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "golly (plural gollies)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "1985, New Society, Volumes 71-72, page 4,\nThere are pictures of the original “gollywogg” (thus spelt) from Florence Upton′s 19th century children′s books; there are examples of anti-semitic Edwardian gollies with huge noses, and all sorts of other curiosities." }, { "ref": "2007, Richard Littlejohn, Littlejohn′s Britain, page 162:", "text": "The Golliwog Squad was also making itself busy in Worthing, Sussex. 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