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Interjection [English]

IPA: /ˌhɛlz ˈbɛlz/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hell's bells.wav
Etymology: From hell + -’s + bells, possibly an elaboration of hell (used to express anger, discontent, or unhappiness) with bells chosen to rhyme with hell’s. The noun sense (Datura stramonium) may allude to the often spiny seed capsules of the poisonous plant which somewhat resemble bells when they mature and split open; compare devil's cucumber, devil's snare, devil's trumpet, and devil's weed which are other common names for the plant. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hell|-'s|bells|alt2=-’s}} hell + -’s + bells, {{taxfmt|Datura stramonium|species}} Datura stramonium, {{vern|devil's snare}} devil's snare, {{vern|devil's weed}} devil's weed Head templates: {{en-interj|head=hell's bells}} hell's bells
  1. (mildly vulgar) An expression of frustration, outrage, or surprise. Tags: mildly, vulgar Translations (expression of frustration, outrage, or surprise): porca misèria (Catalan), puta misèria (Catalan), quina misèria (Catalan), porca miseria (Italian), porca puttana (Italian), porca troia (Italian)
    Sense id: en-hell's_bells-en-intj-4aVnyr0h Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English reduplications, Terms with Italian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of English reduplications: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 47 53 Synonyms: 4uck, ay, chihuahua, blast, bugger, bummer, byrlady [obsolete], consarn it, crap, crud, curses, dammit, damn, dadgummit, dagnabbit, dang, dang it, darn, darn it, dash, dizamn, d'oh, drat, fark, feck, fiddle, fiddlefart, fiddlestick, fiddlesticks, fook, frak, frick, fuck, fuck me, goddamn, goshdarn, goddammit, goshdarnit, good grief, gorblimey [UK], hang it all, heck, hell, hell's bells, hell's bloody bells, hell's bloody bells and damnation, Holy Mother, Holy Mother of God, ish, Mother of God, phooey, piss, poo, raasclaat [Jamaican, vulgar], rats, shit, shoot, shucks, hell's teeth, adzooks [archaic], ay, caramba, chihuahua, begorra [Ireland, dated], bleeding heck, bleeding Nora, bless my heart, bless my soul, bless us, blige [UK], blimey, bloody hell, bloody Nora, blow me [UK, dated], blow me backwards [UK, dated], blow me down, blow me over [UK, dated], blow me pink [UK, dated], blow me tight [UK, dated], blow me up [UK, dated], blow my buttons [UK, dated], butter my butt and call me a biscuit, by all that is holy, by Allah, by cracky, by George, by God, by golly, by gum, by gummy, by jingo, by Jove, by juckies, by Jupiter, by thunder, by the living jingo, byrlady [obsolete], Christ, Christ alive, Christ on a bike, Christ on a cracker, Christ on a raft, cor [UK], cor blimey [UK], cor lummy [UK], cowabunga [humorous], crikey [Australia, New-Zealand, UK], criminy, cripes, crivvens [Scotland, UK], chuffing hell [UK], dear God, dear me, dearie me, deary me, dear Lord, diggety, eep, egad, egads, ermahgerd, fancy that, flaming Nora [UK], flipping heck, flipping Nora [UK], fuark, fuck me, fucking hell, fucking Nora [UK], gad so, Gadsbodikins [archaic], gadsbud [archaic], gadzooks [archaic], gaw, gee [US, dated], gee whiz [US, dated], gee willikers [US, dated], geeminy, geez, geez Louise [US], 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 [UK], gosh, gosh all hemlock, gracious, gramercy, great balls of fire, great Caesar, great Caesar's ghost, great googly moogly, great Scott, gyatt [African-American-Vernacular-English, slang], hallo, hello, heavens, heavens above, heavens to Betsy, heavens to Murgatroyd, hell's bells, hey, heyday [obsolete], 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 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 [UK, dated], I say, Janey Mack [Ireland], Jaysus, Jeebus, jeepers, jeepers creepers, jeez, jeez Louise, jeezy peeps [Scotland], Jerusalem crickets, Jesum Crow, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus fucking Christ, Jesus H. Christ, Jesus Murphy [Canada], Jiminy Cricket, jings [Scotland], jinkies, Judas Priest, jumping Jehoshaphat, jumping Jesus, 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, my, my conscience [obsolete], my giddy aunt [Britain, dated], my heavens, my sainted aunt [Britain, dated], my sainted uncle [Britain, dated], my God, my goodness, my gosh, my Lord, my my, my word, no way, O gemini, ods bodikin [archaic], odsfish, odzookens [archaic], 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 [Internet, slang], omigod, omigosh, peas and rice, please, praise the Lord, rah [Multicultural-London-English], ruddy hell [UK], ruddy Nora [UK], sacré bleu, sakes alive, 'sblood [archaic], 'sdeath [archaic], shart [obsolete], 'sheart [obsolete], sheesh, shit fire and save matches, shitting Nora [UK], 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 [rare], strewth, strike me pink, 'struth [archaic], suffering Sappho, suffering succotash, sweet Grandma on stilts, sweet Jesus, sweet mother of God, sweet mother of Jesus, well, I never, what, what do you know [often, sarcastic], whoa, whoah, wow, wowee, wowzers, ye gods, yikes, yikes bikes, you don't say [often, sarcastic], yowzah, zoiks, zoinks, ZOMG [Internet, slang], ZOMFG [Internet, slang], zooterkins [archaic], zound [archaic], zounds [archaic], zowie

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌhɛlz ˈbɛlz/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hell's bells.wav
Etymology: From hell + -’s + bells, possibly an elaboration of hell (used to express anger, discontent, or unhappiness) with bells chosen to rhyme with hell’s. The noun sense (Datura stramonium) may allude to the often spiny seed capsules of the poisonous plant which somewhat resemble bells when they mature and split open; compare devil's cucumber, devil's snare, devil's trumpet, and devil's weed which are other common names for the plant. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hell|-'s|bells|alt2=-’s}} hell + -’s + bells, {{taxfmt|Datura stramonium|species}} Datura stramonium, {{vern|devil's snare}} devil's snare, {{vern|devil's weed}} devil's weed Head templates: {{en-noun|p|head=hell's bells}} hell's bells pl (plural only)
  1. Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium). Tags: plural, plural-only
    Sense id: en-hell's_bells-en-noun-OXybmX9U Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum, English reduplications, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Italian translations, Daturas Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 38 62 Disambiguation of English reduplications: 53 47 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 38 62 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 39 61 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 38 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Daturas: 13 87
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          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
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          "word": "darn it"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "dash"
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        {
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          "word": "feck"
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        {
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          "word": "fiddle"
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          "word": "fiddlefart"
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        {
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          "word": "goddamn"
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          "word": "goshdarn"
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          "word": "goddammit"
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        {
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          "word": "goshdarnit"
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          "word": "good grief"
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        {
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "gorblimey"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "hang it all"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "heck"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "hell"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "hell's bells"
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        {
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          "word": "hell's bloody bells"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "hell's bloody bells and damnation"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "Holy Mother"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "Holy Mother of God"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "ish"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "Mother of God"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "phooey"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "piss"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "poo"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "raasclaat"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "rats"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "shit"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "shoot"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:dammit",
          "word": "shucks"
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        {
          "word": "hell's teeth"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "adzooks"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "ay"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "caramba"
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          "word": "begorra"
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          "word": "bleeding heck"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "bleeding Nora"
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        {
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          "word": "bless my heart"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "bless my soul"
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          "word": "bless us"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "blige"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "blimey"
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        {
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          "word": "bloody hell"
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        {
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          "word": "bloody Nora"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "blow me"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "blow me backwards"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "blow me down"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "word": "blow me over"
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        {
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          "word": "blow me pink"
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          "word": "blow me tight"
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          "word": "blow me up"
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        {
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          "word": "blow my buttons"
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        {
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          "word": "butter my butt and call me a biscuit"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "by all that is holy"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "by Allah"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "by cracky"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "by George"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "by God"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "by golly"
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        {
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          "word": "by gum"
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        {
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          "word": "by gummy"
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        {
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          "word": "by jingo"
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        {
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          "word": "by Jove"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "by juckies"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "by Jupiter"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "by thunder"
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        {
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          "word": "by the living jingo"
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        {
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          "word": "byrlady"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "Christ"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "Christ alive"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "Christ on a bike"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "Christ on a cracker"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "Christ on a raft"
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        {
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          "word": "cor"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "word": "cor blimey"
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        {
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          "word": "cor lummy"
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        {
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          "word": "cowabunga"
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "crikey"
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        {
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          "word": "criminy"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "cripes"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "crivvens"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
            "UK"
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          "word": "chuffing hell"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "dear God"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "dear me"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "holy Toledo"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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          "tags": [
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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          "word": "Jesus Christ"
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        {
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "oh my Lord"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "oh my stars"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "oh my word"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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          "word": "please"
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "oh my Lord"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "oh my stars"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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Download raw JSONL data for hell's bells meaning in All languages combined (26.6kB)

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