"goshwow" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1967 Spring, Wynn Manners, “Your 5¢ Worth”, in No-Eyed Monster, number 11, page 45",
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          "ref": "1997 May 30, Andy Hooper, “Days of Fandom”, in Apparatchik, number 79",
          "text": "Rog Ebert remembers: In the editorial of the new Science Fiction Age, Scott Edelman quotes from an interview he conducted (for their sister magazine, Sci-Fi Entertainment, he says) with fannish-wunderkind-turned-Pulitzer-winning-columnist Roger Ebert. Despite rumors that he shuns mention of his fannish roots, Rog talks at some length about his fanzine days, crediting fandom with teaching him to read critically, and still sounding a little goshwow about having his LoCs printed \"right next to those of legendary BNFs . . . like Buck and Juanita Coulson, Harry Warner, Harlan Ellison, Ed Gorman, Wilson Tucker and Richard Lupoff.\"",
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          "ref": "1983 December, Stephen Kimmel, “The First Program”, in Creative Computing, volume 9, number 12, page 156",
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          "ref": "1991 Winter, D. S. Black, “Mondo Reality High”, in Processed World, number 28, page 55",
          "text": "Yet Mondo is so enamored of the gee-whizbang neatness, the goshwow sense of wonder inspired by such technical \"innovations\" as virtual reality—the understandable dream of finding a universe in a grain of silicon—that I often wonder if they're not showing just a little unseemly haste to leave this stinkin' cesspit of a world behind their television snow and mirror shades.",
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          "ref": "1992 July 5, Terry Pratchett, “Hi, people”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet), message-ID <memo.507923@cix.compulink.co.uk>",
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          "ref": "1999 September 30, Bev Clark/Steve Gallacci, “Re: Orbital kills”, in rec.aviation.military (Usenet), message-ID <7t0e3m$35t@dfw-ixnews21.ix.netcom.com>",
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          "ref": "1991 Winter, D. S. Black, “Mondo Reality High”, in Processed World, number 28, page 55",
          "text": "Yet Mondo is so enamored of the gee-whizbang neatness, the goshwow sense of wonder inspired by such technical \"innovations\" as virtual reality—the understandable dream of finding a universe in a grain of silicon—that I often wonder if they're not showing just a little unseemly haste to leave this stinkin' cesspit of a world behind their television snow and mirror shades.",
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          "ref": "1992 July 5, Terry Pratchett, “Hi, people”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet), message-ID <memo.507923@cix.compulink.co.uk>",
          "text": "My 33mhz 486 is no longer a goshwow machine, Dell having done their usual trick of waiting until I bought it before dropping the price hugely.",
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          "ref": "1999 September 30, Bev Clark/Steve Gallacci, “Re: Orbital kills”, in rec.aviation.military (Usenet), message-ID <7t0e3m$35t@dfw-ixnews21.ix.netcom.com>",
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        "(dated, fandom slang and computing) Of or pertaining to a sense of wonder; awe inspiring; amazement causing."
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