boomshanka

The phrase originated in an episode of the British television comedy series The Young Ones. The pilot episode, first aired in 1982 and entitled "Demolition", included a brief piece of dialogue by Neil, who was fantasizing about taking advantage of the impending demolition of their home to commit suicide:
* Neil: When they come, I'm going to hide in the wall cavity and pretend to be thermal insulation. And when they knock the wall down, boomshanka!
The phrase was also spoken by Neil in an episode entitled "Cash", which was first broadcast in 1984. The segment of dialogue, where Neil is composing a letter to his bank manager to request a loan, is as follows;
* Neil: I know, why not "Boomshanka"?
* Mike: It's hard to tell, Neil. What does it mean?
* Neil: It means, "May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman."
* Rick: A-ha! And what makes you think your bank manager is a man?
* Neil: Uhm... His beard.
* Mike: He'll never understand "Boomshanka". You'll have to write the whole thing out.
* Neil: Right, okay, here we go. "Darling Fascist Bullyboy: Give me some more money, you bastard. May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman, Neil."

(British, humorous) A wish of happiness.


ptr

(Late Egyptian) behold, lo, look; presents the contents of a statement


変身

Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Shapeshifting
ja:変身

Probably from Middle Chinese as compound 變身 (MC pjenH syin, “change” + “body; self”). Compare modern Mandarin 變身／变身 (biànshēn).
First attested in Japanese in 1060.

ltc-l

A shout called out when metamorphising into one's powerful alter-ego. Found in tokusatsu, mecha and magical girl fiction.


θαυμάσια

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θαυμάσια • (thavmásia)


Господи

Го́споди • (Góspodi)

Го́споди (canonical)
Góspodi (romanization)

→ Ingrian: Hospodi

Ru-господи.ogg

Коро́ль отве́тил:
— Глу́пости! —
Коро́ль сказа́л:
— О, бо́же мой! —
Коро́ль вздохну́л: — О, Го́споди! —
И сно́ва лёг в крова́ть.

1983, Самуил Маршак (Samuil Marshak), “Баллада о королевском бутерброде [Ballad of the Royal Sandwich]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), translation of The King’s Breakfast by A. A. Milne:

The King said,
“Bother!”
And then he said,
“Oh, dear me!”
The King sobbed, “Oh, deary me!”
And went back to bed.

Korólʹ otvétil:
— Glúposti! —
Korólʹ skazál:
— O, bóže moj! —
Korólʹ vzdoxnúl: — O, Góspodi! —
I snóva ljog v krovátʹ.


trời đất ơi

[t͡ɕəːj˨˩ ʔɗət̚˧˦ ʔəːj˧˧]

[ʈəːj˦˩ ʔɗək̚˦˧˥ ʔəːj˧˧]

[ʈəːj˨˩ ʔɗək̚˦˥ ʔəːj˧˧]

trời (“sky, heaven”) + đất (“earth, ground”) + ơi (“yes”)


trời ơi

[t͡ɕəːj˨˩ ʔəːj˧˧]

[ʈəːj˦˩ ʔəːj˧˧]

[ʈəːj˨˩ ʔəːj˧˧]

LL-Q9199 (vie)-Penn Zero MSSJ-trời ơi.wav

trời (“heavenly lord”) + ơi (“hey, oh, vocative particle”).

af

Tống Giang nghe nói níu lấy hai người công sai mà kêu rằng: "Khổ lắm trời ơi! Thực là phúc bất trùng lai, họa vô đơn chí!"

1925 [c. 14 century CE], Shi Nai'an (attributed), chapter 36, in Trần Tuấn Khải, transl., Water Margin:

Upon hearing that, Song Jiang clutched the two guards tightly and wailed: "Good heavens, woe is me! Truly, blessings never come in pair; disasters never come singly!"

good heavens; good God; good Lord; oh my God


честито

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честито • (čestito)


αψού

αψού • (apsoú)

(onomatopoeia) atishoo, achoo (the sound of a sneeze)


はて

Attested from the Edo Period (1603-1868).

1942, Sasano Ken, editor, Nō kyōgen: Ōkura Torahiro-bon [Kyogen works of Okura Torahiro], page 160:

Well, will it be possible to get rope now?

ハテ、今から縄をなふて間に合ふ物か。

Hate, ima kara nawa o nafute aida ni afu mono ka.

dear me, wait a minute, well (at the start of a sentence), let me see


no homo

Schlided / Betydning: Slatten. Eksempel: Jeg gider ikke glo på din schlidede røv, no homo. Seks Cifre ...

2014, Tobias Cadin Borup, Ali Sufi, Gade/Dansk ordbog: En håndbog i ghettodansk, Art People, →ISBN:

„No homo, men du burde tage trøjen af,“ siger Thomas.

2016, Adam Silvera, translated by Betty Frank Simonsen, Den dag jeg glemmer, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

»Og jeg er platonisk forelsket i dig.« »Det var helt seriøst dreng-pige-versionen af 'no homo', men tak for tanken.«

2017, Alice Oseman, translated by Louise Ardenfelt Ravnild, Radio Silence, Rosinante & Co, →ISBN:


آمان

Borrowed from Arabic أَمَان (ʔamān, “security, safety, peacefulness”).


fucksticks

"Fucksticks!" When some other fucker pushes in a queue / "Fucksticks!" When you get caught short and really need a poo / "Fucksticks!" When I came a-tumbling off my BMX / "Fucksticks!" When I split my frenulum while having sex

2011, Kunt and the Gang, Fucksticks (song)

Would A Christmas Carol have been as popular if instead of saying 'Bah, Humbug!' Ebenezer Scrooge had said, 'Oh, Fucksticks!'? What's the funniest expletive you can imagine Scrooge exclaiming?

2018, Richard Herring, Emergency Questions: 1001 conversation-savers for any situation:

His eyes rolled back in his head and his slender form crumpled to the floor like someone had just cut his strings.
"Oh, fucksticks!" I breathed, rushing to him and pulling him into my arms.

2019, Kaye Draper, Gesa's Menagerie Box Set (books 7-9)

(UK, Ireland, colloquial, vulgar) Expressing frustration.


出来上がり

出来上がり (canonical)
dekiagari (romanization)


ostres

(colloquial) Euphemistic form of hòstia (“jeez”).


oh my hell

Old strap for strop, penn’orth of emery powder, bit of Sunlight, nail‐brush to rub it on face, and — oh my hell !— torture — and your face is smooth again.

1931, Lionel Britton, Hunger and Love, page 60:

Expression of shock, frustration, or dismay.


puya

¡Puya mano, nos dejó el bus!

¡Puya! ¡Qué me arde la herida!

(El Salvador, euphemistic) fudge (euphemism of the interjection puta (“fuck!”))


nananinanão

From Nana + Nina + não (“no”), chosen for the alliteration.


fenékig

From fenék (“bottom”) + -ig (“till”, terminative case suffix), literally “till [the] bottom” (of the glass).

affix

bottoms up, cheers, down the hatch! (the drinking toast)


жалко

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жа́лко • (žálko)


morbleu

Mourez donc les premiers, nous vous cédons le pas / Mais de grâce, morbleu ! Laissez vivre les autres !

1972, Georges Brassens (lyrics and music), “Mourir pour des idées”, in Fernande:

Die first then, go ahead / But zounds! For pity's sake, let the others live!


серьезно

серьезно • (serʹjózno)

серьёзно серьёзно#Russian

Alternative spelling of серьёзно (serʹjózno)


серьёзно

серьёзно • (serʹjózno)

Ru-серьёзно.ogg


àmen

Ultimately from Biblical Hebrew אָמֵן (ʾāmēn, “certainly, truly”).


горько

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го́рько • (górʹko)

го́рько (canonical)
górʹko (romanization)

bitter! (an old Russian tradition: a shout by wedding guests urging the newlyweds to kiss, thus removing the "bitterness")


thwap

THE COMPLETELY MAD DON MARTIN, a two-volume honker that includes every drawing Martin ever published in the magazine, answers the question with a definitive thwap: Martin's cartoons are still weird.

2007 December 2, Stephanie Zacharek, “Mad”, in New York Times:


benvegnuo

From Vulgar Latin *bene venūtus, equivalent to ben (“well”) + vegnuo (“come”, past participle of vegner).

af

past participle of <i class="Latn mention" lang="vec">vegner</i>


ܛܒܐ

aii-interj

ܛܵܒ݂ܵܐ • (ṭāḇā)

Root
 ܛ ܘ ܒ (ṭ w b)
 0 terms
From Aramaic טָבָא (ṭāḇā), from Proto-Semitic *ṭāb-; compare Arabic طَيِّب (ṭayyib), Hebrew טוֹב (tov) and Akkadian 𒄭 (ṭābum, “pleasant”).

inh

Aramaic טָבָא (ṭāḇā)

ܛܵܒ݂ܵܐ، ܒܸܬ ܟܵܬ݂ܒ݂ܹܢ ܠܹܗ.

ṭāḇā, bit kāṯḇēn lēh.


good morrow

/ɡʊd ˈmɒɹəʊ/

From Middle English good morow, good morwe.

Creſ[ſida]. Good morrow vncle Pandarus.
 Pan[darus]. Good morrow cozen Creſſid: what doe you talke of? good morrow, Alexander: how doe you cozen? when were you at Ilium?

c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

Good Morrow, Neighbour; good Morrow, Neighbour Cloggit; How do's all at your Houſe this Morning?

1705, [John Vanbrugh], The Confederacy. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:

"Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."

1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:


consarn it

Derived from the exclamation consarnation, a dialect pronunciation of consternation.
Either from a dialectal variant of concern, or possibly from an alteration of confound it.

(dialect, dated, minced oath) A mild oath.


goody gumdrops

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-goody gumdrops.wav

(childish) A cry of delight on hearing good news.

Goody gumdrops, I get to take the trash out!

(sarcastic) Implied disdain or disinterest with something.


uhh

“He said, ‘You’re that tennis player,’ and I’m like: ‘Uhh, uhh, yeah. It’s me.’ ” She laughed.

2008 January 13, Karen Crouse, “Searching for Sharapova, and Finding a Dichotomy”, in New York Times:


yis

From Old English ġīse, ġēse; equivalent to Old English ġēa + sīe.


hach

onomatopoeic

exclamation

Hach, das waren noch Zeiten...

Hach ja, ich werd dann mal abwaschen.

Oh well, I think I’ll go do the dishes then.

signals the end of a conservation, typically when nobody has spoken for a short while


ܬܘܕܝ

aii-interj

ܬܵܘܕܝܼ • (tāwdī)

Root
 ܝ ܕ ܐ (y d ˀ)
 0 terms
Learned borrowing from Classical Syriac ܬܘܕܝ (tawdī), absolute form of ܬܵܘܕܝܼܬ݂ܵܐ (tāwdīṯā, “gratitude”); compare Hebrew תּוֹדָה (todá).


ܬܘܕܝ

From the root ܝ-ܕ-ܐ (y-d-ʾ) related to confessing.


urr

(onomatopoeia) Sound of a growl, usually made by a dog.


ܫܠܡܐ

aii-interj

ܫܠܵܡܵܐ • (šlāmā)

Root
 ܫ ܠ ܡ (š l m)
 0 terms
Common Northwest Semitic, from Aramaic שְׁלָמָא (šəlāmā); compare Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (shalóm), Phoenician 𐤔𐤋𐤌 (šlm), Arabic سَلَام (salām) and Ugaritic 𐎌𐎍𐎎 (šlm /šalāmu/).

inh

Aramaic שְׁלָמָא (šəlāmā)


ܫܠܡܐ

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ܫܠܵܡܵܐ or ܫܠܳܡܳܐ • (šəlāmā or šlomo)

ܫܠܵܡܵܐ (canonical)
ܫܠܳܡܳܐ (canonical)
šəlāmā (romanization)
šlomo (romanization)

From the root ܫ-ܠ-ܡ (š-l-m) related to completing; compare Phoenician 𐤔𐤋𐤌 (šlm), Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (šālōm), Ugaritic 𐎌𐎍𐎎 (šlm /šalāmu/).

cog

Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (šālōm)


ܫܠܡܐ

tru-interjection

ܫܠܳܡܐ • (šlomo)

inh

Aramaic שְׁלָמָא (šəlāmā)


ܫܠܡܐ

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ܫܠܳܡܰܐ (slōma)

bor

Aramaic שְׁלָמָא (šəlāmā)


boops

“Me waan fi know why is always night, dat dem decide fi tun off di light? An' why, dat fram di day mi bawn, as likkle rain fall, boops! Di light gawn! […]”

2018, Shelley Sykes-Coley, Chat ’Bout!: An Anthology of Jamaican Conversations (in Jamaican Creole), →ISBN:

I want to know why they always decide to cut the power at night. Why is that, in my entire life, as soon as it starts to rain, boom! There's a blackout. […]


נישט

A contracted form of Old High German niowiht, from nio (“never”) + wiht (“being, creature”), derived from Proto-Germanic *ne (“not”) + *aiw- (“ever”) + *wihtą (“thing”).
Compare German nicht. Akin to Dutch niet, West Frisian net, English not where similar developments took place.


barminán

From Hebrew בַּר מִינַן (bár minán, “may it not happen to us”, literally “outside of us”).

der

how terrible!, Heaven protect us!, God forbid!


vivu

Vivu Zamenhof, vivi Esperanto!
Long live Zamenhof, long live' Esperanto!


متشکرم

[mot̪ʰeʃæˈkʲːeɾæm]


byervo

From Old Spanish vierbo, from Latin verbum.

el senso de un byervo

the meaning of a word [goal, reason, motive]


bashustoné

"Bashustoné!" le respondió la vizina, "Kon plazer! Sólo kale ke me digas komo v'a poder rekonoser a tu kriatura."

1999, Matilda Koén-Sarano, קורס לספרדית-יהודית (לדינו) למתחילים, page 107:

"Bashustoné!" disho Djako. Ma Alberto eksklamô : "Me desplaze, ma no tengo mas lugar en la oja!" "A Dio! Mete un chiko saludo de parte de Davî para Moshôn! le rogô David. "Te estô diziendo ke me se eskapô la oja!" le eksplikô Alberto.


barasta

Oj barasta!

Þegiðu barasta!

Af því barasta!


grasias

Originally from Latin grātia, as used in the phrase gratias agere (“to express thanks”).


سپاس‌گزارم

سپاسگزارم (canonical)
sepâs-gozâram (romanization)


ajs

ouch

An expression of one's own physical pain if something is hot.


bryk

denoting a jump or rapid movement from one place to another


suffering cats

Suffering cats!! My shoes became full of carpet tacks and I leapt so high that me head nearly hit the ceiling.

1917 July 7, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 181, column 3:

"By the Harvest of Souls, hurry! Hurry! Here's the boy saying he's been eating, the stuff we don't mention. Suffering cats! I'll go mad!"

"Oh, suffering cats, they've started already," said Becker under his breath.

1952, Manning Coles, The exploits of Tommy Hambledon:

suffering catfish
suffering catfish#English


suffering catfish

"Sweet suffering catfish!" said Mickey. "All you have to do is give me the darned stick, not throw it at me. When I want to play hockey. I'll let you know.

"Suffering catfish! Why did I ever let you write this piece?"

"But, suffering catfish, Mr. Woolwine," I protested. "You can't do that! What would be left?"

1966, Sidney Joseph Perelman, Chicken Inspector, number 23:

(dated) An exclamation of disgusted dismay.


ὦ

Cognate with Latin ō, from Proto-Indo-European *ō or onomatopoeic.

(usually ὤ) expresses surprise, joy, or pain: oh!; ah!

(usually ὦ) Very commonly used before a noun in the vocative or nominative case when addressing someone or something: O...


なんと

An interjection conveying surprise or being emotionally moved.


miljaar

Probably an abbreviation of the Flemish expression miljaarde nondedju, from French milliards de noms de Dieu (“billions of names of God”). See also Dutch nondeju.


ufa

Possibly related to French ouf; alternatively from Italian uffa; or both.

“Consegui chegar ao hospital a tempo!” “Ufa!”

“I got to the hospital in time!” “Whew!”


ufa

“No puedes ver televisión hasta que acomodes tus jugetes” “¡Ufa!”

“You can't watch TV until you arrange your toys.” “Shucks!”

(colloquial, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras) Used to show anger, displeasure, exasperation, repulsion, or negative reaction to something.

(colloquial, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras) Used to express disgust for an objectionable or foul smell: yuck!


niinpä

– Elämä sen kun kallistuu. – Niinpä!
– Life just keeps getting more expensive. – Indeed!


Moien

Contraction of dated Muerjen, from Old High German morgan (“morning”). Akin to German Morgen, Dutch morgen, English morn. It is the only native word containing the diphthong [oɪ̯], which is otherwise restricted to loanwords from German or English.

Moien! Wéi geet et?


git along

Pronunciation spelling of get along (“move along”).

Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies,
It's your misfortune, and none of my own.
Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies,
For you know Wyoming will be your new home.

1910, John Avery Lomax, Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads, page 87:

(US, cowboy slang, often said to cattle) Move; keep going.


hoicks

Alternative form of yoicks (“hunting cry”)


roll on

Roll on summer!


mósca

From Latin musca. Compare Italian mosca.


motus et bouche cousue

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-motus et bouche cousue.wav


òstrega

From Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon).


ស្វាហៈ

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ស្វាហៈ • (svahaʼ)

it is right; it is correct (used at the beginning or end of religious or magical formulae)

ព្រះអគ្គី ព្រះអគ្គី#Khmer

may it be powerful!; may it be glorious! (used by Brahmans during a ceremony in honor of Agni, ព្រះអគ្គី (prĕəhʼkkii), god of fire)


pe bune

Ieri am văzut-o pe Marta la Ion.
Pe bune?
Pe bune.
Yesterday I saw Marta at Ion's.
Really?
Really.


yarr

Yarr, this be a fine ship.

Alternative form of arr (“used stereotypically in imitation of pirates”)


what ho

What ho, Frobisher!

What ho, there! All who are within hearing, return without fear. Caesar has tamed the lion.

1912 February 6 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Androcles and the Lion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 44:

‘What ho!’ […] ‘Treasons, strategems and spoils.’

1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 18:

(Commonwealth, UK, Ireland, informal, dated) An exclamation of greeting, summons, or surprise.


sies

'Sies, man,' a voice said. 'You're a domkop. How you gonna see 'em?'

2008, William Higham, Nakada's Touch, page 316:

“Sies, man!” she said to herself. “Where are the men of this house? Is anybody home?”

2011, Niq Mhlongo, After Tears, page 13:

(South Africa) Expressing disgust, disappointment, or annoyance.


ကြိုဆိုပါ၏

/t͡ɕòzòbàʔɛ̰/


fye

African-American Vernacular, Southern US

Respelling of fire to reflect a non-rhotic pronunciation with glide weakening and smoothing as in Southern or African American Vernacular English


hyc

used to imitate a quick jump of a small animal, as well as the sound accompanying this jump


ក្រុកៗ

cluck-cluck, clucking (sound of a hen clucking)


TQ

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of thank you.


ей-богу

ей-бо́гу (canonical)
jej-bógu (romanization)

really!; really and truly!; honest to God!


entschëllegt

[ænˈt͡ʃələɕt]


Καλό Πάσχα

Καλό Πάσχα • (Kaló Páscha)

From καλό (kaló, “good”) + Πάσχα (Páscha, “Easter”).


Καλή Λαμπρή

Καλή Λαμπρή • (Kalí Lamprí)

from καλό (kaló, “good”) + Λαμπρή (Lamprí, “Easter”)


pøj

An onomatopoeia: the sound of spitting. Compare English ptui.

pøj, pøj – break a leg, good luck (wish of fortune or encouragement)


fair dos

"[…] Lansley said he was disappointed I had gone public without telling him. Which is fair dos except he could have found out if he had bothered to see me […]"

2011 July 26, Jeremy Laurance quoting Sir Roger Boyle, “Sir Roger Boyle: 'It is horrific that the NHS's future is threatened'”, in Independent:


დიაღ

დიაღ • (diaɣ)


გაუმარჯოს

გაუმარჯოს • (gaumarǯos)

Related to გამარჯვება (gamarǯveba, “victory”).

გაუმარჯოს სამშობლოს!

გაუმარჯოს საქართველოს!


zookers

Shortened from gadswookers, Godsookers; compare gadzooks.

‘Zookers, lass, I never envy these young fellows their rides and scampers, unless when you come across me.’

1817, Rob Roy, Walter Scott, section VIII:

(obsolete) An expression of mild annoyance, surprise etc.


ܒܪܝܟ ܪܡܫܐ

From ܒܪܝܟ (b(ə)rīḵ, “blessed”) + ܪܡܫܐ (ramšā(ʾ), “evening”).

good evening (literally "the evening is blessed")


chodźcie

/ˈxɔt͡ɕ.t͡ɕɛ/

used to entice the listeners to doing something together with the speaker; come here, c'mon


CLS

/t͡sʰiː⁵⁵ lɐn³⁵ siːn³³/

/t͡sʰiː⁵⁵ lɐn³⁵ siːn³³/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly Internet slang) Initialism of 痴撚線／痴撚线 (“fucking crazy”).


оп-пля

о́п-пля! (canonical)
óp-plja! (romanization)

whoops!; oops! (as when stumbling and almost tripping or almost stepping on something to be avoided)

alley-oop (also used as an exclamation when dogs do tricks)


w porządku

Literally, “in order”. Compare Hungarian rendben.


pewnie

Inherited from Old Polish pewnie. By surface analysis, pewny + -ie.

of course, naturally, sure, sure thing (an affirmative reply; yes; certainly)


loh

Loh, kok aneh?

Loh, bukan itu yang dikatakannya

Hang on, that's not what they (3s) said.

(colloquial) What!?, Oh come off it!, hang on... (did I hear that right?)


ah, vá

(Brazil, informal) no duh (implying that a statement is rather obvious)


ファイト

From English fight. Compare the semantics of Korean 파이팅 (paiting), 화이팅 (hwaiting).

fight!; called by a referee in professional boxing when the players do not have enough hits


gluck

glug (onomatopoeia for pouring or swallowing a liquid)


nientepopodimeno

(informal) Alternative form of nientedimeno


nientedimeno

From niente (“nothing”) + di (“of”) + meno (“less”).


txs

(Internet slang) Abbreviation of thanks.


paskat

[ˈpɑ̝s̠kɑ̝t̪]

(usually ja ~) bullshit! (expression of disbelief to someone's claims)

fuck it! (expression of great indifference or nonchalance; expression of frustration; expression of anger or dismissal)


roskaa

[ˈro̞s̠kɑ̝ː]

rubbish (expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense)


kiitoksia

[ˈk̟iːt̪o̞kˌs̠iɑ̝]


varokaa

[ˈʋɑ̝ro̞kɑ̝ː]

watch out! (polite or to more than one person)


jatkakaa

[ˈjɑ̝t̪kɑ̝kɑ̝ː]


bumpity

"There he goes!" cried his delighted master, throwing down the poker and snapping his fingers in an ecstasy — "Bumpity bump! bumpity bump! Hope he won't stop at the landing-place — no — off again! All stone steps!

1833, Horace Smith, Gale Middleton: A Story of the Present Day, page 229:

Daria closed her eyes, exhaling slow smoke through her nostrils, listening to the bumpity sound of wheels on the polished cobblestone unevenness of the street.

The rhythmic bumpity, bumpity, bumpity bump of a pissed academic with arthritic knees falling down the stairs, ricocheting between wall and banister as he went.

2002, Marian Keyes, Under the Duvet, page 193:

Bang, bang, bumpity bump, I hear as spruce cones fall on the metal roofing of my woodshed.

2011, Amy Seidl, Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming:

"I've always wanted romance, and I realized I'd had it with her. It made my heart go all bumpity-bump. Then she called me her light, and that was that."

2019 August 14, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Aug 14, 2019:

Nonce variation of the word bump, usually indicating the sound of someone or something tumbling down an uneven surface, or traveling on a rough road.


phpht

[…] uplift bra . . . odourless hair removing cream . . . phpht! Twenty-four hour deodorant . . . slimming pills . . . contraceptive pills […]

1991, Franca Rame, Dario Fo, Stuart Clink Hood, A woman alone & other plays:

> But... some of us do have to work for a living. As a result our dog(s)
>must be left for 8 hrs per day by themselves. :-(
Yeah, phpht. Working...phpht.

1993, Cindy Tittle Moore, “Dogs or Humans as Canine Companions”, in rec.pets.dogs (Usenet):

"Phpht! Eat your noodle soup, and don't pay no attention to that there foolishness."

1995, Richard Hoffman, Half the house: a memoir:

“Phpht!” Bravegart spit out. “Okay, Stonah, a trade it is. You give them one of your feathers. A feather for an arrow. […]

2003, Mark Fidler, Blaze of the Great Cliff, page 39:


poistu

(military, Finland) Command for soldiers to immediately move somewhere quickly; always with a qualifier which determines where, see e.g. taakse poistu.


jessus

Jessus, kuka tuotakin tolloa on äänestänyt!

Jesus, who has ever voted for that jerk!


tä

what? huh? (exclamation used to express stupefaction or failure to understand somebody else's words)


chro

oink (representing the sound made by a pig)


hujambo

Contraction of huna jambo (literally “You do not have anything”).


sijambo

Contraction of sina jambo (literally “I don't have anything”).

(greeting) I'm fine (response to "how are you?")


сбогом

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сбо́гом • (sbógom)

сбо́гом (canonical)
sbógom (romanization)

From Old Church Slavonic съ богомь (sŭ bogomĭ, “with God”), cognate with Macedonian збогум (zbogum), Serbo-Croatian збо̏гом, Polish zbogiem. For the formation, compare Latin ad Deum (“to God”) (whence French, English adieu), Middle English Godbwye short for “God be with you” (whence English goodbye).

inh

сбогу́ване

сбогу́вам се (sbogúvam se, “to bid farewell”)


अहो

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ahaw, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ahaw, from Proto-Indo-European *ehew. Cognate with Latin eheu.


voihan

[ˈʋo̞i̯ɦɑ̝n]

Voihan perkele!

Used in front of a swearword as fortifier.

Voihan...

Sometimes used alone to convey the message without actually swearing.


słuchaj

used to get the listener's attention, listen, look, hey


saj

(Internet slang, Twitch-speak) Alternative spelling of sadge


biega

Dialectal genitive singular of bieg. Ellipsis of biega daj.


wolnego

– Trzeba by koniecznie zobaczyć ten wóz. Malina uśmiechnął się. – Wolnego, Stefek, wolnego. Wszystko się zrobi.

1958, Zygmunt Zeydler-Zborowski, Czarny mercedes, Przedsiębiorstwo Wydawnicze „Rzeczpospolita”:

– We should really take a look at that carriage. Malina smiled. – Slow down, Stefek, slow down. All in good time.

(colloquial, dated) cool your heels!, cool your jets!, hold your horses!, stop!, whoa! (slow down)

– A, dobrze, że cię widzę. Od jutra możesz sobie szukać innej pracy. Podawanie w „Monopolu” to nie jest praktyka dla dyletantów, zrozumiano? Kelner spojrzał na niego z ukosa: – Wolnego! Co za ty? Świń z panem nie pasałem. Sobie możesz pan od jutra wymówić.

1948, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Popiół i diament:

– Ah, it's good to see you. You can look for another job from tomorrow. Serving at the “Monopoly” is not an apprenticeship for dilettantes, understood? The waiter gave him a sidelong glance: – Wait a minute! What do you mean by “you”? I don't remember being on first-name terms with you. So good luck firing me.

(colloquial, dated) stop!, whoa! (you should not have done/said that)


hajda

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish هایده (hayde), هایدی (haydi).

bor+

used to speed up the listener's movement or action


liikkumatta

[ˈliːkːuˌmɑ̝t̪ːɑ̝]


jooko

joo (“yes”) + -ko (“interrogative clitic”)

suffix

Lähdetään illalla elokuviin, jooko!

Let's go to the movies tonight - please!

Laita hanskat käteen, jooko!

Used as fortifier after a suggestion or similar; English equivalent might be please, will you, shall we etc.


huhuu

Probably akin to huhu; compare huhuilla. Compare also English yoo-hoo.

hello (call for response if it is not clear if anyone is present or listening)


nyah

Unclear. Assertions of its universality among children regardless of culture or parent tongue are likely false: see https://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2011/07/nuh-nuh.html, https://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2011/07/nuh-nuh-2.html, https://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2011/07/nuh-nuh-3.html

When the waves didn't catch me, I would laugh and sing out, "Nyah, nyah, nyah!"

1993, Ted Andrews, Enchantment of the faerie realm, page 74:

Yankee fans have been saying, Nyah, nyah, I told you so, since the news was revealed in The New York Times.

2009 August 7, George Vecsey, “On Big Day for Bronx, Cheating Is Nonissue”, in New York Times:


nyah

(fandom slang, Internet slang) meow, especially spoken by a catgirl or catboy


thwop

Tennis may be the quietest sport, with long stretches of respectful silence interrupted only by the thwop of balls being hit.

2009 August 28, Laurel Graeber, “Spare Times: For Children”, in New York Times:

(chiefly pornographic manga) Alternative form of fwop.


გილოცავთ

(formal or in the plural) congratulations


poh

Oh, poh! they might have been counted some how or other, unless indeed they were so numerous as to require all our people to stand sentinel round them.

1811 May 29, William Cobbett, “Summary of Politics”, in Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, volume 19, number 43, page 1323:

Poh, it's from your sister at Lyons, and contains good news: read it.

1856, Oliver Goldsmith, The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, page 69:

"Oh poh!" said Benny. "When I grow up, I'm goin' to have a span!"

1877, Abby Morton Diaz, Brother Billy, Dorry Baker, and Bubby Short, page 208:

"Poh, poh! it's a mere trifle, I repeat," Tibbits rejoined.

1857, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Spendthrift: A Tale, page 298:

“Oh, poh, poh !—her purse, if she likes it better; the little receptacle which my wife and daughters find it convenient for me to keep—well filled—in my pocket.

The virtue of the yaller dog is his bark. To hear that bark and not see the barker would make one imagine that he did the biting for all dogdom: but seeing the source one only says, “Poh, it's the yaller dog !”

1873, American Observer - Volume 10, page 492:

(dated) Indicating that something is trivial and not worth consideration.

Lady Anſw[erall]. Colonel, ſome Ladies of your Acquaintance have promis'd to breakfast with you, and I am to wait on them; what will you give us? / Col[onel Atwit]. Why, faith, Madam, Batchelors Fare; Bread and Cheeſe, and Kiſſes. / Lady Anſw. Poh! what have you Batchelors to do with your Money, but to treat the Ladies? you have nothing to keep but your own Four Quarters.

1738, Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used at Court, and in the Best Companies of England. In Three Dialogues, London: Printed by B[enjamin] Motte, and C. Bathurst, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, →OCLC, page 61:

Oh — poh ! how do you know I had any call to the dark man - and as for Sally — sure there she's westwards in" the fields ; take her, and welcome. Keep out o' my way now, I'd advise you.

1862 April 26, Gerald Griffin, “Suil Dhuv, The Coiner”, in Illustrated Dublin Journal, volume 1, number 34:

“Oh, poh, you're joking now. As if you're s' innocent as all that! I'm not the only girl you've kissed an' fondled.

2013, Winston Graham, The Grove of Eagles: A Novel of Elizabethan England, page 267:

Poh, but it's a dull day! I think I'll be off to the races.

1978, Samuel Agnew Schreiner, Angelica: a novel, page 1:

(dated) Expressing disagreement or irritation

Poh it's disgusting, Mr. Caudle.

1851, Eliza Cook, Eliza Cook's Journal, page 327:

But if my way were written down and printed, he would not touch it. "Poh, it's bookish !"

1859, Henry Ward Beecher, Plain and Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming:

"Poh, it's all bosh!" Now let us inquire in what States land is the best managed, yields the most with the least cost, where are the best sheep, the best cattle, the best hegs, the best wheat?

1866, John Turner, The American Farmer, page 359:

George exploded coarsely: “Poh! It's no good asking mother."

1916, Arnold Bennett, These Twain, page 22:

(dated) Expressing disgust or repulsion.


poh

pooh! (expression of dismissal or contempt)


thumpity

Nonce variation of the word thump, usually indicating a bumpy action.


jumpity

Nonce variation of the word jump, usually used to indicate a series of small jumping actions.


crappity

Nonce variation of the word crap, usually used as an intensifier.


humpity

Nonce variation of the word hump, usually indicating a bumpy action.


clackity

Nonce variation of the word clack, usually indicating one of a series of clacking sounds.


grumpity

Nonce variation of the word grump, usually used as an intensifier.


hoppity

Nonce variation of the word hop, usually used to indicate a series of small hopping actions.


slappity

Nonce variation of the word slap, usually used to indicate a series of small slapping actions.


flappity

Jest then in come Mrs. Pelto with one of them French sisters with the flappity caps, the same as 'ad been in the mornin', and come from the 'Ospital.

1878, Arthur Sketchley, Mrs. Brown at the Paris exhibition, page 108:

‘Flappity, flappity, flappity,’ the thin man sang. ‘Cut it out,’ Grissom said.

1991, Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands, page 66:

... I was mindful of the hissings and shoutings coming from the cave and thought an interesting foreign gentleman would be a good distraction for them, even if he did land up going flappity, flappity down the mountain on little webbed feet.

2004, Nelson Mandela, editor, Favorite African Folktales, page 216:

Nonce variation of the word flap, usually indicating a series of small or ineffective flaps.


clickity

Her stick made a little clickety noise on the flagstones.

1911, Marguerite Audoux, Marie-Claire, page 51:

As so many times before one finds a cozy corner in a coach, props oneself on an elbow and gazes out the window as the scenery goes speeding by to the cadence of clickity, clickity, clickity, click as the wheels strike the spaces between the rails with increasing speed.

1984, Charles Sauriol, Tales of the Don, page 61:

The SWOOPER started to move faster and faster and soon they were swooping along a dark tunnel, clickity, clickity, clickity-clack.

2003, Tom Condon, The Sandman: Stories to Read to Children, page 5:

When I was about halfway through the hatch, the engine went “clickity, clickity, clickity, and boom,” igniting the gasoline vapors in the compartment into a huge fireball.

2009, Alton McVey, Dancing with the Bear, page 198:

Instead of a raft floating down the Mississip,' it'll be a clickity clack across the desert.

2010, Jerome Peterson, Thumb Flagging, page 162:

As she walked to JoJo's house, Katie ran a stick along a fence. She liked the clickity-clackity sound.

2015, Fran Manushkin, Katie's Noisy Music, page 8:

Nonce variation of the word click, usually indicating one of a series of clicking sounds.


nom d'une pipe

(dated) flipping heck; bloody hell; cor blimey (or similar oath)


paikoillanne

Paikoillanne, valmiina, nyt!

ready, steady, go
ready, steady, go#English

(sports) ready; on your mark; on your marks (first part of the command phrase ready, steady, go! and/or its varoants)


hors de question

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-hors de question.wav


Donner und Doria

In use at least since (and possibly originated in) Schiller's 1783 play Fiesco.


χρόνια πολλά

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χρόνια πολλά! • (chrónia pollá!)

χρόνια πολλά ! (canonical)
chrónia pollá! (romanization)

Expression with χρόνια (chrónia), a neuter plural for the masculine χρόνος (chrónos, “year”) & πολλά (pollá, “many”), neuter plural of πολύς (polýs, “much, a lot”).

να τα εκατοστίσετε

να τα εκατοστίσεις (na ta ekatostíseis, “literally: may you make them (the years of your life) a hundred”)

να τα χιλιάσεις

may you make them (the years of your life) a thousand

many happy returns: happy birthday, happy name day


hästi

No hästi, lähme siis homme.


poz

(text messaging, Internet slang, informal) bye! (greeting)

(text messaging, Internet slang, informal) hello! hi! (greeting)


siema

Clipping of jak się masz (się masz > siema).


na razie

(colloquial, idiomatic) see you, see you later, bye


carai

(mildly vulgar, colloquial, minced oath) rats!


carai

(Brazil, Northeastern Portugal) Eye dialect spelling of caralho.


Jiminy Cricket

Euphemistic alteration of Jesus Christ. The cartoon character was named for the minced oath, which is recorded from the early 1800s onwards.


blow me

When she told him to get lost, he said, "Blow me, bitch!"

Some things never happen, he reminds himself. But this one always does, says the still small voice of mortality. Blow me, Laney tells it.

1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 226:

(idiomatic, vulgar) An expression of discontent or aggravation to another party (with a metaphorical connotation of fellatio).

With a look of disdain, he exclaimed: “Blow me, your shirt! Why in 'ell didn't you use mud?”

1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P. Putnam's, page 44:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated, informal) Ellipsis of blow me tight.


haw-haw

"Bless thy simplicity, Tess," said her companions. "He's got his market-nitch. Haw-haw!"

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 19:

Alternative form of ha ha (“laughter”) (sometimes suggesting an upper-class British accent)


eat shit

"I fucked your sister!" "Eat shit!"

(idiomatic, vulgar) An expression of discontent or aggravation to another party.


parabéns

[pa.ɾaˈbẽɪ̯̃ʃ]

/pɐ.ɾɐˈbɐ̃j̃ʃ/

[pɐ.ɾɐˈβɐ̃j̃ʃ]

Plural form of parabém, from para + bem. Compare Spanish parabienes.

Parabéns, Ana! Você conseguiu!


wham, bam, thank you ma'am

I confess to have been with a few hookers (the rentals), the wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am kind.

2002, Patrick Mitchell, This Bank Robber's Life, page 249:

The guys just want 'wham, bam, thank-you ma'am.' They don't care about building a relationship.

2010, Leonard Sax, Girls on the Edge, page 33:

Denoting swift, formulaic, and unromantic sexual intercourse.


you betcha

(colloquial) Alternative form of you bet


八格牙路

ㄅㄚ ㄍㄜˊ ㄧㄚˊ ㄌㄨˋ

/pä⁵⁵ kɤ³⁵ jä³⁵ lu⁵¹/

/pä⁵⁵ kɤ³⁵ jä³⁵ lu⁵¹/

From Japanese 馬鹿野郎(ばかやろう) (baka yarō, “idiot”). Popularised by TV series on the Second Sino-Japanese War in Mainland China, where the use of this interjection by Japanese officers usually symbolises the brutality of the Japanese army.


thank heavens

see others there, including thank goodness


sipu

(often repeated) Used to call cows (to move towards the speaker).


shup

- That shirt looks well bad.

- Shup mate!

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(UK, slang) Pronunciation spelling of shut up.


sibo

Derived from Hokkien 是無／是无 (sī-bô, “is not”).

u dun understand english sibo?

2009 December 29, GMAudition, “Gamerz Planet”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Ka ni na, ask stupid question sibo?

2010 September 26, Ang Shi Na, “Sheena’s101”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

You are factoring in the interest sibo?

2013 August 6, “BlueOldMan, HDB Resales price”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Grin until mouth crooked sibo?

2015 May 12, May Lee, “Study stress”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(Singapore, informal) An expression of disbelief, equivalent to Is it so?


ευχαριστούμε

ευχαριστούμε • (efcharistoúme)

ευ‧χα‧ρι‧στού‧με

we thank you!, thanks! (first-person plural)


ܚܝܐ

aii-interj

ܚܵܝܹܐ • (ḥāyē) m sg (feminine singular ܚܵܝܝܵܐ (ḥāyyā), plural ܚܵܝܝܼ (ḥāyī))

ܚܵܝܹܐ (canonical)
ḥāyē (romanization)
ܚܵܝܝܵܐ (feminine singular)
ܚܵܝܝܼ (plural)
of the above (masculine non-past third-person)

Root
 ܚ ܝ ܐ (ḥ y ˀ)
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From Aramaic חְיָא (ḥəyā); cognate to Arabic حَيِيَ (ḥayiya) and Hebrew חַי (kháy), with the interjection similar to Hebrew יְחִי (y'khí).

ܚܵܝܹܐ ܡܲܠܟܵܐ!


valew

(Brazil, Internet slang) expression of gratitude or satisfaction; thank you; thanks


gidday

“Giidday, gidday, welcome aboard, one and all!” There he stands, grinning, larger than life, a nutbrown teddy bear in a black G-string and a cowboy hat, champagne cocktail in one hand, the other held out to hoist us aboard.

2002, William Brandt, The Book of the Film of the Story of my Life, page 190:

“Oh, gidday, Stan”, I said.

2004, James Roy, Billy Mack's War, page 106:

“Gidday”, she says, grinning happily.
“Gidday”, he replies, with a grin for her: it flits over his face and is gone by the time he looks at Joe.

2005, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, page 132:

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) Alternative form of g’day


what-what

(UK, dated) Used to add emphasis to, and to seek agreement with, a previous statement.


preghe

(after being thanked) you're welcome, don't mention it etc.

(in response to a request) yes, of course


omme

Borrowed from Spanish hombre (“man”), from Old Spanish omne, from Latin homō, from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ.


老鄉

/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɑ̃ɻ⁵⁵/

/lou̯¹³ hœːŋ⁵⁵/

/lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiɔŋ⁴⁴/

/lau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hiɔŋ³³/

/lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiaŋ⁴⁴/

/lau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hiũ³³/

/lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiũ⁴⁴/

/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɑ̃ɻ⁵⁵/

/lou̯¹³ hœːŋ⁵⁵/

/lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiɔŋ⁴⁴/

/lau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hiɔŋ³³/

/lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiaŋ⁴⁴/

/lau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hiũ³³/

/lau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiũ⁴⁴/

my dear sir! (friendly form of address to an unacquainted countryman)


გილოცავთ დაბადების დღეს

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გილოცავთ დაბადების დღეს

გილოცავთ დაბადების დღეს • (gilocavt dabadebis dɣes)

გილოცავ დაბადების დღეს
გილოცავ დაბადების დღეს#Georgian

plural of გილოცავ დაბადების დღეს (gilocav dabadebis dɣes)

en-გილოცავთ_დაბადების_დღეს-ka-intj-bB8OdmQv


沒錯兒

/meɪ̯³⁵ t͡sʰu̯ɔɻ⁵¹/

/meɪ̯³⁵ t͡sʰu̯ɔɻ⁵¹/

(Mandarin) Erhua form of 沒錯／没错 (méicuò, “correct; right; that's correct”).


沒錯

/meɪ̯³⁵ t͡sʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/

/meɪ̯³⁵ t͡sʰu̯ɔɻ⁵¹/

/muːt̚² t͡sʰɔː³³/

/meɪ̯³⁵ t͡sʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/

/meɪ̯³⁵ t͡sʰu̯ɔɻ⁵¹/

/muːt̚² t͡sʰɔː³³/


tnx

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of thanks.


what in tarnation

2003. Judith Silverstein, Michael Lasky, "Online dating for dummies"
What in Tarnation to Write I still remember the first girl I called up for a date at age 15.

Other euphemisms of this type (and there are many) include what in tarnation for what in damnation and what the Sam Hill for what the damn hell.

2005. Charles Harrington Elster, "What in the word?", Page 35

2007. Diane Stanley. "The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy" Page 141.
“What in tarnation do you think you're doing?”

What in tarnation have you done with my wallet!?

(idiomatic) used to add emphasis to "what" when beginning question.


keng Ursaach

/kæŋ ˈuːʀzaːχ/

[kæŋ ˈuːə̯zaːχ]


mvg

met vriendelijke groeten
met vriendelijke groeten#Dutch

(Internet slang) Acronym of met vriendelijke groeten.


поз

From поздрав.

(text messaging, Internet slang, informal) bye! (greeting)

(text messaging, Internet slang, informal) hello! hi! (greeting)


geschenkt

Dass Sie sich unabgesprochen mit der Konkurrenz getroffen haben – geschenkt! Aber dass Sie dabei Interna ausgeplaudert haben, hat ein Nachspiel.
That you met with our competitors without authority – forget about it! But your disclosing internal information at that meeting will have consequences.

forget it; forget about it; that’s not so problematic; that’s one thing; that’s not the worst part


noondezju

(Maastrichtian) expression that displays excitement, shock, awe or dismay, comparable with oh my God.


fiou

Fiou! Ça me soulage.

phew, an onomatopoeic interjection used to express relief


معقول

acw-interj

معقول • (maʕgūl)


معقول

ajp-interjection

معقول • (maʕʔūl)


lackadaisy

Alteration of lack-a-day or alack-the-day.


javel

Probably after German jawohl, see ja, vel.

(emphatic, especially military) yes, yessir, affirmative (addressing a superior)


yanno

Have you, yanno, told her yet?

2022, Ivy Noelle Weir, Anne of West Philly: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Anne of Green Gables, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 217:

Pronunciation spelling of you know, representing US English.


heigh

Inherited from Middle English heigh, hey, hay, hei, heh, probably of imitative origin. Compare hey, eh.

onomatopoeic

imitative

Heigh, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

An exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc.


Jung

The same as Junge with dialectal apocope.

Jung! Jetz' mach kein' Scheiß und sei ruhig!


𐍅𐌰𐌹

From Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Compare Latin vae.


sawubona

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sawubona (to one person, to multiple people sanibonani)

Contraction of siyakubona (“we see you”).

good day (good morning, good afternoon, good evening)


frickle

"Frickle frackle,” she said, stomping out.

2008, Sarah Thyre, Dark at the Roots: A Memoir:

I know that they loved me and all that frickle-feely stuff, surely wanted the best but I didn't care too much for love—at least not now.

Finally, I though of something with survival value: I need to get the frickle out of here before anyone sees this tattoo!

2016, Adam Bradley, Matt Leyshon, Stuart Hughes, Morpheus Tales, page 146:


entä sitten

– Ensi menemme uimaan ja sen jälkeen saunomaan. – Entä sitten?
– First we will go swimming and then to the sauna. – What about after that?

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see entä, sitten.


好棒

/xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pɑŋ⁵¹/

/hou̯³⁵ pʰaːŋ¹³/

/xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pɑŋ⁵¹/

/hou̯³⁵ pʰaːŋ¹³/


thnx

(text messaging) Abbreviation of thanks.


Christ on a bike

Christ on a bike and Mary on the handlebars

A humorous variation of the exclamation "Christ alive" or "Christ" or "Jesus Christ". Usually an expression of surprise, shock, exasperation etc.


aloha awakea

[əˈho.lə ˌɐ.ʋəˈkɛ.jə]


ܠܠܝܐ

ܠܲܠܵܝܹܐ • (lallāyē)

ܠܲܠܵܝܹܐ (canonical)
lallāyē (romanization)

Children’s language and derived from ܠܲܝܠܹܐ (laylē, “night, nighttime”)


foh

Offence? As I'm a Perſon, I'm aſhamed of you—Fogh! how you ſtink of Wine! Dee think my Niece will ever endure ſuch a Borachio! you'r an abſolute Borachio.

1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene x, page 62:

"Foh!" said Madame Mantalini, "how he ever gets into a carriage without thinking of a hearse, I can't think. There, take the things away, my dear, take them away."

1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Miss Knag, after doating on Kate Nickleby for three whole Days, makes up her mind to hate her for evermore. The Causes which lead Miss Knag to form this resolution.”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 169:

(obsolete) An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt.


poa

(Sheng) I'm fine (response to "how are you?")


coochy coo

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-coochy coo.wav

Uncertain. Perhaps imitative of a baby’s vocalizations. Compare coo. Attested from the late 19th century, with coochey, oochy a bit earlier.

An affectionate vocalization normally used towards a baby.


anend

(dialectal, interrogatory) How; come again; say what.


კარგად

კარგად • (ḳargad)


shëndet

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *sanitātis (nominative singular), from Latin sānitās (“health”). Compare Romanian sănătate.


nauh

Nauh, djöfull er þetta flott mynd af þér!

Wow, dude! That's a great picture of you.

(colloquial) an expression showing that one is very impressed or in awe; Wow!; Wow, would you look at that!


kerplop

The sound of something falling, especially when hitting water.


attans

Attans också!

Attans bananer!


alde

From Proto-Basque *alte, probably related to albo (“side”).


bida

used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.


mehercule

From an ellipsis of ita mē Herculēs amet/iuvet or the like.


ahak

an expression of anger, surprise, excitement, etc.


whallah

People back East always thought it was a simple matter: a property, a star, a director — and whallah — a picture.

1984, Josh Greenfield, The Return of Mister Hollywood, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 23:

They were mammoth but if you turned down a random corner then, whallah!—there might be an arts & crafts show.

2011 November 13, James Altucher, “10 Things Entrepreneurs Don’t Learn in College”, in TechCruch:


בי

he-interj

בַּי • (báy)


kusie

Kusie!

(I'm) sorry (expression of regret or sorrow)


mo-hee-e

Mo-hee-e!

welcome (Greeting given upon someone’s arrival)


selah

From Biblical Hebrew סֶלָה (sélā), of unknown origin.

God commeth from Theman, and the holy one from mount Paran, Selah. his glorie couereth the heauens, and the earth is full of his prayse.

1568, Matthew Parker, The holie. Bible. Conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe [The Bishops' Bible], London: Imprinted at London in povvles Churchyarde by Richarde Iugge, printer to the Queenes Maiestie, →OCLC, Habakkuk 3:3:

LORD, how are they increased that trouble mee: many are they that riſe vp againſt me. / Many there bee which ſay of my ſoule, There is no helpe for him in God. Selah. / But thou, O LORD, art a ſheild for me; my glory, and the lifter vp of mine head. / I cryed vnto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of holy hill. Selah.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 3:1–4:

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. / From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. / For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. / I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

1769, The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches [King James Version], Cambridge: Printed by John Archdeacon printer to the University; and sold by John Beecroft, John Rivington, Benjamin White, and Edward Dilly, in London; and T. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge, →OCLC, Psalm 61:1–4:

[…] Ps[alm] xlvi has three Selahs (vs. 3, 7, 11,) and likewise a repetition in vs. 7, 11, which, as we have already fully illustrated, Selah greatly intensifies. In Ps. xlix there are two Selahs (vs. 13, 15,) indicating the refrain, "Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:" and, also, a repetition, (with some variation,) of the following words, "Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish." Vs. 12, 20.

1863 December 4, “Art. III. – The Meaning and Use of סֶלָה (Selah.)”, Robert J[efferson] Breckinridge [et al.], editors, The Danville Quarterly Review, volume IV, number II, Danville, Ky.; Cincinnati, Oh.: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 25 West Fourth Street, published June 1864, OCLC 4609985, page 240

Students of Selah have been puzzled because in the psalms, which Mishna ascribes to each day of the week for the daily sacrifice, the desired number of Selahs is not to be found. The answer is that the pᵉraqim were timed to the ritual at the altar and that, even though the term Selah might not occur at all in some of these psalms, the pᵉraqim and prostrations referred to the actual Selah ceremony.

1968, Rembert Sorg, Habaqquq III and Selah, Fifield, Wis.: King of Martyrs Priory, →OCLC, page 33:

(biblical) A word occurring between verses or paragraphs in parts of the Hebrew Bible, namely in Habakkuk and the Psalms; perhaps indicating a pause, either for contemplation or for the singer to clear his or her throat.


доброго пути

head

до́брого пути́!

до́брого пути́! • (dóbrovo putí!)

до́брого пути́ ! (canonical)
dóbrovo putí! (romanization)


счастливого пути

счастли́вого пути́!

счастли́вого пути́! • (sčastlívovo putí!)

счастли́вого пути́ ! (canonical)
sčastlívovo putí! (romanization)

[ɕːɪs⁽ʲ⁾ˈlʲivəvə pʊˈtʲi]


nahát

well I never, you don't say (exclamation of surprise)


barika

From Hausa bar̃kā̀, ultimately from Arabic بَرَكَة (baraka). Doublet of àlùbáríkà.

báríkà ẹsẹ̀ tí ó tẹlẹ̀!

Congratulations for the feet that have stepped on the ground (A greeting for someone who has survived a sickness)

(idiomatic) blessings!, bless you!, used after someone sneezes


iacă

Probably from ia. Another theory suggests Latin ecce or eccam. Compare Italian ecco.


sokay

(colloquial, dialectal) it's okay; it is OK


iată

Either from ia, iacă (+ te), from a shortening of ia uite (compare popular variants ioite, iote). Another etymology may be Bulgarian ето (eto).

suddenly, unexpectedly, without warning.


tse

Onomatopoeic from the sound of spitting. See also English ptui. Also possibly from clipping of letse, from Spanish leche (“milk; semen”, euphemism), according to Zorc (1993).

der

exclamation of irritation, disgust, contempt, or rejection


good now

Good now, some excellent fortune! Let mee
be married to three Kings in a forenoone, and Widdow them[…]

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

(obsolete) An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty.


नमस्कार

hi-interj

नमस्कार • (namaskār) (Urdu spelling نمسکار)

Borrowed from Sanskrit नमस्कार (namaskāra).

bor+

a salutation; a greeting used for most purposes including hello, good morning/afternoon, and goodbye


नमस्कार

head

नमस्कार • (namaskār)

Inherited from Old Marathi नमस्कार (namaskāra), from Sanskrit नमस्कार (namaskāra).

inh+

a salutation; a greeting used for most purposes including hello, good morning/afternoon, and goodbye; namaskar


नमस्कार

ne-interj

नमस्कार • (namaskār)

(respectful) A salutation; a greeting used for most purposes including hello, good morning/afternoon, and goodbye


gic

Utterance used to summon pigs (for feeding).


agedum

age (“act, do, imperative”) + dum (“while, then”)

compound

come on! (or similar words of encouragement or exhortation)


cataplum

the sound of a loud explosion or forceful hit


eugh

"Eugh," he said, "this cake is dry."

2006, Morag Prunty, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage, page 272:


амыр

head

амыр • (amır)

From Classical Mongolian ᠠᠮᠤᠷ (amur), from Proto-Mongolic *amu- (“to rest; peace”). Cognate with Mongolian амар (amar).

экии экии#English

A greeting, more formal than экии; hello, greetings


à Dieu ne plaise

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-à Dieu ne plaise.wav


à bon entendeur salut

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-à bon entendeur salut.wav


клёво

клёво! (canonical)
kljóvo! (romanization)


نشوة

ajp-interjection

نشوة • (našwe)


ајде

head

а́јде • (ájde)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish هایده (hayde), هایدی (haydi).

An interjection used to caution one about what one is saying.

An interjection used to acknowledge that one's interlocutor is right to be asking the question he is asking, that he is right to be surprised or to object.

An interjection used to introduce and accept a supposition, similar to "let's say" in English.


viden

Univerbation of vidēs + ne with subsequent iambic shortening in pre-stressed position.

(expressive or ironic, usually with ut or another relative and indicative or subjunctive) do you see (how...)? would you look at that! see, behold, lo!


ܝܫܘܥ

ܝܼܫܘܿܥ • (īšōˁ)

From Biblical Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšûaʿ, “Jesus”), a syncopated form of יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (yəhôšuaʿ, “Joshua”).

der

Said to someone who has just sneezed or coughed, as a polite remark or short prayer

Said to someone who has just tripped as a short prayer


Christ on a cracker

A humorous variation of the exclamation "Christ" or "Jesus Christ". Usually an expression of surprise, shock, exasperation etc.


يا

yā (romanization)
યા (Gujarati Standard)


ё моё

(colloquial) Alternative spelling of ё-моё (jo-mojó)


ё-моё

Formed according to the euphemistic model: "the first sound or syllable word with an unexpected (in this case, phonetically similar) continuation."

— Ё-моё, — говори́л он себе́ негро́мко, изумлённый, — да она́ про́сто краса́вица!
— Jo-mojó, — govoríl on sebé negrómko, izumljónnyj, — da oná prósto krasávica!
"Damn!", he said to himself softly, amazed, "she’s simply beautiful!"

(minced oath, colloquial) damn, bloody hell (an expression of disappointment or surprise)


საღოლ

head

საღოლ • (saɣol)

From Azerbaijani sağol meaning "amazement about one's prowess" or "bravo".
Also, possibly from Turkish sağol (“thanks”).


საღოლ

საღოლ • (sağol)

From Turkish sağol (“thanks”), contraction of sağ olun.

(slang, nonstandard, colloquial) thanks!


areet

(Northern England) Pronunciation spelling of all right.


slatt

Acronym of slime love all the time or slime life all the time coined and popularised by Young Thug.

(slang) Used to express affection between friends, especially within the hip-hop community.


毎度

Shortening of 毎度(まいど)ありがとうございます (maido arigatō gozaimasu).

ja-r

毎度ありがとうございます

まいど ありがとう ございます


ploc

First attested 1845, of imitative origin.

onomatopoeic

imitative


о-го-го

о-го-го ́! (canonical)
o-go-gó! (romanization)

О-го-го́, как ты вы́рос!

Наро́ду там — о-го-го́! ― Naródu tam — o-go-gó! ― The people there—oh, oh, oh!

О-го-го́, ско́лько грибо́в ты собра́л!

oh, ho, ho!; wow!; oh, my goodness!; oh, oh, oh! (expresses surprise, admiration, approval, etc.)


heartlings

My will! ’od’s heartlings, that’s a pretty jest indeed!

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

(obsolete) An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance.


Весёлого Рождества

head

Весёлого Рождества́

Весёлого Рождества́ • (Vesjólovo Roždestvá)

Весёлого Рождества ́ (canonical)
Vesjólovo Roždestvá (romanization)

[vʲɪˈsʲɵɫəvə rəʐdʲɪstˈva]

LL-Q7737 (rus)-Tatiana Kerbush-Весёлого Рождества.wav


Счастливого Рождества

Счастли́вого Рождества́

Счастли́вого Рождества́ • (Sčastlívovo Roždestvá)

Счастли́вого Рождества́ (canonical)
Sčastlívovo Roždestvá (romanization)

[ɕːɪs⁽ʲ⁾ˈlʲivəvə rəʐdʲɪstˈva]

en-Счастливого_Рождества-ru-intj-Yij3hCa3


ого

ого́! (canonical)
ого (canonical)
ohó (romanization)
ogó (romanization)

Ого́, как ты вы́рос!

Наро́ду там — ого́! ― Naródu tam — ogó! ― The people there—oh, oh, oh!

Ого́, ско́лько грибо́в ты собра́л!

whoa; oh, ho!; wow!; oh, my goodness!; oh, oh! (expresses surprise, admiration, approval, etc.)


ìoc

An expression of surprise, disgust, boredom, or frustration.


انتهى

اِنْتَهَى • (intahā)

اِنْتَهَى (canonical)
intahā (romanization)


स्वागत

hi-interj

स्वागत • (svāgat)

svāgat (romanization)
स्वागत (direct singular)
स्वागत (direct plural)
स्वागत (oblique singular)
स्वागतों (oblique plural)
स्वागत (singular vocative)
स्वागतो (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्वागत (svāgata).


स्वागत

ne-interj

स्वागत • (svāgat)


स्वागत

head

स्वागत • (svāgata)

/sʋɑː.ɡɐ.tɐ/

/ˈs̪ʋɑː.ɡɐ.t̪ɐ/


eee

Liz[:] Eee, I love it, Jack.

2013 November 1, John Godber, Godber Plays: 2: Teechers; Happy Jack; September in the Rain; Salt of the Earth, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 93:

"Eee! How cute is this?” demanded Mimi, picking up the decorative basket containing the emergency kit of tampons, safety pins, bleach pen, clear nail polish, deodorant and band-aids.

2020 January 15, Bethany Maines, An Unfamiliar Sea, Blue Zephyr Press:

"How amazing! Oh my god, I must hear all the salacious details."
Caleb shook his head. "Later, if Valkyrie consents to share anything with you. Focus, please?"
"Right, right, right. Eee, I love it! […]"

2022 May 22, G. S. Jennsen, Chaotica: Riven Worlds Book Five, Hypernova Publishing:

An expression of happiness or excitement: yay!


eee

Used to signify that one is listening and understands


fenua

From Proto-Polynesian *fenua. Cognates include Hawaiian honua and Maori whenua.

earth! (cry launched by a sailor who sees land from a ship)


no duff

From the RAF slang expression "duff gen" meaning bad information; no duff, by extension means accurate, also: stop operations until ordered otherwise.

“Sunray, No Duff, No Duff, No Duff. We need a medic, we’ve got a man down. Wound to the upper arm, and major blood loss. Over.” ¶ All the other chatter on all the radios went dead with the ‘No Duff.’ It was the signal for a medical emergency.

2001, Ska Child, David Harris, Skavoovee, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, page 152:

“Someone grabbed me from behind and said ‘No duff,’ which means this is real,” said LCdr. Wong. “That’s what everybody heard, ‘Plane crash, 737,’ and all of us started running to our posts,” he told reporters after Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived here to commend those who raced to the scene.

2011 August 24, Gloria Galloway, “When troops heard ‘no duff,’ they knew Resolute Bay rescue wasn’t an exercise”, in The Globe and Mail:

(UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, military slang, radio voice procedure) Indicating that this is not a drill or training exercise.


ख़ुदा हाफ़िज़

hi-interj

ख़ुदा हाफ़िज़ • (xudā hāfiz) (Urdu spelling خدا حافظ)

xudā hāfiz (romanization)
خدا حافظ (Urdu)

/xʊ.d̪ɑː ɦɑː.fɪz/

[xʊ.d̪äː‿ɦäː.fɪz]

/kʰʊ.d̪ɑː ɦɑː.pʰɪd͡ʒ/

[kʰʊ.d̪äː‿ɦäː.pʰɪd͡ʒ]

Borrowed from Classical Persian خدا حافظ (xudā hāfiz, “May the Lord be your protector”). Cognate with Bengali খোদা হাফেজ (khōda haphej).


mrd

(text messaging, Internet slang) Censored spelling of mierda.


suffering succotash

Catchphrase of Looney Tunes characters Sylvester and Daffy Duck. Euphemistic for "suffering savior".


ај

used to reinforce imperative and exhortative constructions


勞力

/lɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lat̚⁴/

/lɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lat̚²⁴/

/lɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lat̚¹²¹/

/lɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lat̚⁴/

/lɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lat̚⁴/

/lɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lat̚⁴/

/lɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lat̚²⁴/

/lɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lat̚¹²¹/

/lɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lat̚⁴/

/lɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lat̚⁴/

劳力
劳力
努力
擼力
魯力

thank you; sorry for causing you trouble

† - when someone does you a favour; § - when someone gives you a gift


ма

Shortening of мома́ (momá, “girl, maid”) and/or мо́ре (móre) (evocative intensifier).

Пепи, каква е тая бира, ма?

(derogatory) placed at the end of a sentence, when directed at a woman, as an offensive intensifier


ма

(vulgar, derogatory) Placed at the end of an utterance as an offensive intensifier (usually when addressing women)


ма

Эм-мээ, ма!

2000, V. K. Spiridonov, I. A. Nikolaeva, Букварь для 1 класса юкагирских школ [A primer for the 1st class of Yukaghir schools], Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 11:


اینک

From این (in) + ـک (-ak, diminutive suffix).

اینک این خلعت بگیر و زر و سیم
چون بیایی خاص باشی و ندیم

c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 189:

Look now, receive this robe of honour and gold and silver; when thou comest [to the king], thou wilt be a favourite and boon-companion.

īnak īn xal'at bigīr u zar u sīm
čōn biyāyi xās bāšī u nadīm


kikirikí

cock-a-doodle-doo (the cry of the rooster)


بربر

ar-interj

بِرْبِر • (birbir)

بِرْبِر (canonical)
birbir (romanization)

used by shepherds to call their flock together


ahéheeʼ nitsaago

ahéheeʼ (“thanks”) + nitsaa (“it is big”) + -go (adverbial suffix)


fugh

He may make a shift to sow lettuce, raise melons, and water a garden-plat; but otherwise, a very filthy fellow: how odiously he smells of his country garlick! fugh, how he stinks of Spain.

1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

(obsolete) An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh.


ама

From Ottoman Turkish اما (ammâ), in turn from Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā).

(regional) Used to express impatience.; ugh, blah


خو

Compare Persian خوب and Gulf Arabic below.


خو

- ليش ما قتلي ان لازم البس دشداشة حق العرس - ما يحتاج اقول خو!
- Why haven't you told me that I need to wear a dishdasha for the wedding - I don't need to say duh!

Used to indicate that something is clearly evident, obvious, and/or common-sense; duh; obviously; clearly.


ربا

رَبّا (canonical)
rabbā (romanization)
रब्बा (Hindi)

Borrowed from Punjabi رَبّا (rabbā), from رَبّ (rabb, “Lord”).

ہائے رَبّا
ہائے ربا#Urdu

Clipping of ہائے رَبّا (hāe rabbā, “oh Lord!”).


bwe

(Serbia, Internet slang, informal, intensifier) used to express passion about a topic.


apuva

[ˈɑ̝(ː)pu(ː)ʋɑ̝]

Coined by Aake Kalliala and Pirkka-Pekka Petelius in their TV-sketch Pulttibois in 1989.


okeh

Sometimes said to be from Choctaw oke, okeh (“it is so”). Probably simply a variant of OK.

"Look it up in the latest dictionary," suggested the President. And here is part of what was found: O.K.—a humorous or ignorant spelling of what should be "okeh," from the Choctaw language meaning, "It is so" ...

1918, The Clothier and Furnisher, reprint edition, volume 93, page 87:

… how deeply the progressive element in the Democratic party throughout the country might misunderstand and even resent his putting his "okeh" on the candidacy of the Illinois leader for the senatorship, …

1921, Joseph P. Tumulty, “Chapter XIV, Wilson and the Old Guard”, in Woodrow Wilson as I know Him, Reprint edition, Echo Library, published 2006, →ISBN, page 67:

"Well, since Ron ain't goin, why don't you come on and go along with us two, Susie?" / "Okeh," Susie grinned. "Why not?"

1967, James Jones, Go to the Widowmaker, Reprint edition (fiction), Random House, published 1979, →ISBN:


ζήτω

head

ζήτω • (zíto)

From Ancient Greek third-person imperative of ζῶ (zô).

Ζήτω η Ελλάδα!


ndagaʼ

Ndagaʼ, shash łigai


oxalá

Borrowed from Early Modern Spanish ojalá, from Arabic وَشَاءَ ٱلله (wašāʔa llāh, “and may God will it”) or لَوْ شَاءَ ٱلله (law šāʔa llāh, “if God wills it”). Compare English inshallah.

der

وَشَاءَ ٱلله


bleurgh

Sighing, I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep. But the noises went on. I squinted at the clock. Bleurgh.

2007, Kate Johnson, A is for Apple, page 112:

She had delivered her babies, chomped her way with relish through their afterbirths (bleurgh) and was now lying peacefully on the bed with all four babies curled up at her side.

What?! Eat Algae and Insects?! Bleurgh!! No way!

2011, Glenn Murphy, Will Farts Destroy The Planet?:

Expressing a sick or sickened feeling, or vomiting.


beklager

Beklager, jeg har ikke tid lige nu.

I'm sorry, I do not have time right now.


beklager

Beklager, jeg har ikke tid akkurat nå.


Donnerwetter

[ˈdɔnɐˌvɛtɐ]

[ˌdɔnɐˈvɛtɐ]

From Donner (“thunder”) + Wetter (“weather”).


parfay

'Parfay' thought he, 'fantom is in myn heed.'

1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:


добар тек

до̏бар те̑к (canonical)
dȍbar tȇk (romanization)


dobar tek

sh-interjection

dȍbar tȇk (Cyrillic spelling до̏бар те̑к)

dȍbar tȇk (canonical)
до̏бар те̑к (Cyrillic)


all hail

Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

a phrase of salutation, welcome, or acclamation.


holy cricket

Hermione Granger: Holy cricket, you're Harry Potter!

2001, Steve Kloves, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 00:37:16:

An interjection showing an extreme form of surprise that can be used for both positive and negative moments of sudden enlightenment (like an epiphany); oh my God, great Scott.


უკაცრავად

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უკაცრავად • (uḳacravad)


wth

Alternative form: WTH

(Internet slang, text messaging, mildly vulgar) Initialism of what the hell and what the heck.


uhu

(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of uh-huh


uhu

«Uhu!» disse Blut.
«Anch'io lo dico. Uhu! Bisogna che tu cambi.»

1945, Elio Vittorini, Uomini e no, Mondadori, published 1972, page 165:


wowee

wow; expressing astonishment, surprise or excitement


holy crickets

But…holy crickets. He's naked.

2010, Katie MacAlister, In the Company of Vampires, Signet, published 2010, →ISBN, page 86:

(idiomatic) An expression of surprise or astonishment.


aray

From Proto-Philippine *aray. Compare Tagalog aray, Ilocano aray, Bikol Central aray, and Cebuano agay.


aray

From Proto-Philippine *aray, or from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aduq, from Proto-Austronesian *aduq. Compare Ilocano aray, Bikol Central aray, and Cebuano agay.

ouch (an expression of one's own physical pain)


bobbery

Alteration of Hindi बाप रे (bāp re, “O father!”).

Thus the British and Colonial Courts are comparatively empty compared with the Indian Court and jewellery room, which are invariably crowded - so much so that special precautions have to be taken with regard to the latter, only a few being admitted at a time, and they stare at gaudy pictures and glittering jewellery and at the gold brocades and brilliant silks and cloths of their own country and cry "Bapré" or, as it is generally known, "Bobbery," in admiration[.]

1884 February 5, The South Australian Register, Adelaide, page 1, column 1:

"Hullo!" said Col. Wingate, of the Dogras, who had just entered the stand, "another Carr-Jones spoof? By Jove, it isn't Carr-Jones; it's Polhill and Ulmun! Oh! bobbery: here, I'll lay a hundred to one in gold mohurs against the griffs!"

1908 September 5, The Evening Journal, Adelaide, page 6, column 2:

(Anglo-Indian, obsolete) Oh dear! Alas! Good lord!


oh my Lord

"Oh my Lord!" said a stunned Geneva McNeil, reached by telephone at her East Baltimore home and told that the jury had awarded $3.3 million to her and her ailing husband.

1992 July 24, Jay Apperson, “$11 million goes to three plaintiffs in asbestos trial”, in The Baltimore Sun:

(invoking God, offensive to some) An expression of surprise, astonishment, shock, dismay, supplication, or consternation.

invoking God; offensive to some; invoking God; offensive to some


oh my stars

"O Lord!" says Mr. Smallweed, panting. "Oh, dear me! Oh, my stars! My dear friend, your workman is very strong—and very prompt. O Lord, he is very prompt! Judy, draw me back a little. I'm being scorched in the legs," which indeed is testified to the noses of all present by the smell of his worsted stockings.

1883, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVI, in Bleak House:


amém

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese amen, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin āmēn, from Ancient Greek ἀμήν (amḗn), from Biblical Hebrew אמן (“certainly, truly”).


'snails

From God's nails, or His nails, i.e. those with which Jesus Christ was crucified.

'Snails , I'm almost starv'd with Love, and Cold, and one thing or other

c. 1613, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, “Wit at Several Weapons. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:


ska probljem

sh-interjection

ska probljem (Cyrillic spelling ска пробљем)

ска пробљем (Cyrillic)

Ska probljem, samo nadji producenta[.]

2001 October 10, Ratko, “Ayyyyyyyyrrrrrrrrrr....”, in hr.rec.kladjenje (Usenet):

Veselko Pesut, igrac duge kose ali velikih mogucnosti, napisa:
> Posto si se Ti izjasnio kao ustasa, evo ja cu biti mudzahedin! :-))))))
> Mudzahedin "Sumadinac"! :-)))
A nama opet ostaje da budemo Siptari?!
[…]
Ska probljem!

2002 April 10, Marko37, “DOKLE BRE !!!!!!!!!!!!!”, in yu.forum.politika (Usenet):

A ako ne naiđeš četvrtkom, opet ska probljem, zovni na mobilni pa da
posedimo malko[.]

2005 July 14, Vojislav MIHAILOVIC, “DMA...”, in yu.comp.software (Usenet):


yeow

Yeow! I don't think I could recommend going to this extreme, but the story certainly illustrates the lengths to which one is inspired to go to experience the feeling of steam-cleaned skin.

1999, Annie Berthold-Bond, Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living:

"You see anything?" Yeow! I jumped ten feet in the air, dropping the lamp in the process.

1995, Robin Gibson, The Sheriff of Whiskey City:


depardieux

Old French, a corruption of de part Dieu, literally "on the part of God".

"Depardieux," quod this yeman, "deere broother,
Thou art a bailly, and I am another."

1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 131-2:


amás

Alternative form of ambaiste (“Indeed! Really!”)


salú

Likely borrowed from French salut (“hi, bye”), or clipping of saludo or salud.


გაგიმარჯოს

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გაგიმარჯოს • (gagimarǯos)

From გამარჯვება (gamarǯveba, “victory”).


hátsʼíhyaa

kerchoo, atchoo (sound of someone sneezing)


ψιτ

Ψιτ, κοίτα εδώ!

Ψιτ, κύριος! Σας έπεσε το πορτοφόλι σας!

Psst, hey mister! Your dropped your wallet.

Psit, kýrios! Sas épese to portofóli sas!

(onomatopoeia, colloquial) pst; psst (exclamation to get attention; not polite)


good-den

Corruption of good e'en, for good evening.

Enter Iohn the Baſtard.
Baſtard My lord and brother, God ſaue you.
Prince Good den brother.
Baſtard If your leiſure ſeru’d, I would ſpeake with you.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], signatures E2, recto – E2, verso:

(obsolete) A salutation; "good evening".


hox

Clipping of hoksaa (“take note”). Compare huom.


tra-la-la

meaningless syllables used when humming a tune


いらっしゃいませ

いらっしゃい (irasshai, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative”) of the honorific verb いらっしゃる　irassharu) + ませ (mase, the 命令形 (meireikei, “imperative”) of formal suffix masu).
Compare Korean 어서 오세요 (eoseo oseyo, literally “quickly come (honorific)”).

com

the <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">連用形</i> (ren'yōkei, “continuative”) of the honorific verb いらっしゃる　irassharu

the <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">命令形</i> (meireikei, “imperative”) of formal suffix masu


წინ

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წინ • (c̣in)


klote

Pronunciation spelling of kloten, the plural of kloot (“testicle”).


dju

Dju - wee' gemist/bedroge'!

(Brabant) expression of disappointment or upsetness


მაპატიეთ

მაპატიეთ • (maṗaṭiet)

excuse me; said as a request for an apology.


ܩܛܡܐ

aii-interj

ܩܸܛܡܵܐ • (qiṭmā)

Root
 ܩ ܛ ܡ (q ṭ m)
 0 terms
From Aramaic קֵטּמָא (qeṭmā).

ܐܲܝ ܩܸܛܡܵܐ ܒܪܹܝܫܝܼ!

Oh no! (literally, “Oh ashes on my head!”)


nä

The same as nee with lowering of the vowel (via particular dialects and/or for emphasis).

(colloquial, regional) Alternative form of nein (“no”)


blarg

Blarg! I'm sick of this.

(informal) Expressing frustration or disappointment.


tøkk

From Old Norse þǫkk, from Proto-Germanic *þankō, *þankaz.


fair crack of the whip

Like you mean the non interference of the officials with the knockon from Soward and not called and the knockon from Chase which eventuated in a try to the Dragons not called, fair crack of the whip mate, see both sides of the coin, not the one you want to see.

2007 July 19, john smith, “Dumb Referee”, in aus.sport.rugby-league (Usenet):

‘Fair crack of the whip, mate. We′ve had bacon and eggs for a week.’ He coughed noisily. ‘And you expect a man to jump out of bed for bacon and bloody eggs.’
‘What would sir prefer? Soufflé au Parmesan? Or a swift kick up the backside?’

2011, Peter McAra, The Vintner's Letters, unnumbered page:

“Now, straighten up!” The men shuffled into position.
“Come on, sir!” pleaded one of them.
“Fair crack of the whip mate”, Nugget said.

2011, Michael Lawriwsky, Hard Jacka: The Story of a Gallipoli Legend, unnumbered page:

fair suck of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sauce bottle

(Australia, colloquial, informal) Fair go, fair suck of the sauce bottle; used as an appeal for reasonableness.


ácsi

Borrowed from Romani aćh, singular imperative of aćhel (“to stay, remain”).


ꦗꦚ꧀ꦕꦸꦏ꧀

(vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, contempt, or disappointment.


čéče

[ˈt͡ʃɛːt͡ʃɛ]

Shortened from čoveče, then from človeče

(informal) dude, guy (a term of address or an expression of surprise when talking to a friend)


kic

(childish) hop!, boing! (used to imitate the sound of a rabbit's or hare's jump)


nanu-nanu

From the 1978 US television show Mork & Mindy, where it was used as an alien greeting.
Originally said by Oscar-Jack Klugman on "The Odd Couple" in the episode "Psychic, Shmychic" in 1972.
from Sanskrit; nanu surely (nanu; vocative particle, implying kindness or reproach or perplexity)


გენაცვალე

გე‧ნაც‧ვა‧ლე

(idiomatic) darling, dear (expression of endearment)


გაამოთ

The interjection is derived from the verb.


フン

A generic sound indicating agreement or acceptance, or disagreement or skepticism. Compare English hm, hmm.

(informal, affirmative) hm, uh-huh, yeah


კეთილი

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კეთილი • (ḳetili)

From Old Georgian კეთილი (ḳetili), from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ḳet-. Cognates include Mingrelian კათუა (ḳatua). The term is of the same origin as Georgian კეთება (ḳeteba, “to make”).


Dia linn

God bless you (said after someone has sneezed)


ყოჩაღ

ყოჩაღ! • (q̇očaɣ!)

ყოჩაღ! (canonical)
q̇očaɣ! (romanization)

well done, congratulations, bravo, attaboy


nietes

"Jullie waren weer te laat vandaag." "Nietes!"

"You were late again today." "We were not!"

"Jíj hebt mijn glas gebroken." "Nietes!" "Welles!"

"It was you who broke my glass." "Did not!" "Did, too!"

(negation, informal, childish) used to contradict a positive assertion


jings

Jings! This blizzard is no place for a wee bucket boy! If I'm not careful I'll slip and —

2023, A. C. MacDonald, Twistwood Tales (comic), Andrews McMeel, →ISBN, page 23:


waly

O waly, waly, but love be bonnie

(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) An exclamation of grief.


ქრისტე აღსდგა

ქრისტე აღსდგა • (krisṭe aɣsdga)

(Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy) A paschal greeting used in Georgia


ჭეშმარიტად

ჭეშმარიტად • (č̣ešmariṭad)

ჭეშ‧მა‧რი‧ტად

ჭეშმარიტად აღსდგა
ჭეშმარიტად აღსდგა#Georgian

(religion, Christianity) Clipping of ჭეშმარიტად აღსდგა (č̣ešmariṭad aɣsdga).


ей

Onomatopoeic. Compare English hey, Polish hej, Serbo-Croatian ej.

hey! (interjection to get someone's attention)


attagal

Alteration of girl into gal, in attagirl.

(idiomatic, colloquial) Alternative spelling of attagirl


ჰა

Used when calling someone. Usually used between a repeated name.

Used to confirm what someone said. Usually put before the question.

Shows surprise, usually followed by a question.

Used to point out something, which is in front of the speaker.

Used to point out something, which the speaker is giving to the listener.


اوشه

اوشه • (oša)


ticktack

A wild young fellow coming home late one night, heard, while he was putting the key into the lock, something on the ground that continually went ticktack, ticktack, ticktack. Stooping down he found it was a silver watch[…]

1852, Northern Mythology: Volume 3, page 206:

Damn the thing, why didn't it stop – with its monotonous ticktack; ticktack; ticktack – he could feel it inside his head where it seemed to strike innumerable little blows, on a strained chord it was bent on snapping.

1901, George Brown, The House With the Green Shutters:


शर्म

Borrowed from Classical Persian شرم (šarm), from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭥𐭬 (šarm), from Avestan 𐬟𐬱𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬨𐬀 (fšar^əma), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱormo- (“suffering, pain”).


flipping Nora

Synonym of bloody Nora (slightly milder than it).


Pustekuchen

Early 20th century, originally Berlin slang. By surface analysis, pusten (“to blow”) + Kuchen (“cake, pie”). The word Kuchen on its own is already attested with the same sense in thieves' cant (Rotwelsch) since 1818, and likely goes back to Yiddish חכם (khokhem, “wise or cunning man”), used here with a sense along the lines of “you wise guy!” or “you trickster!”. The first component may be Yiddish פּשוט (poshet, “simply”), but this appears less conclusive. It may also be merely the verb pusten in the sense “to exhale/snort dismissively”; compare the expression jemandem etwas pusten/husten (“to refuse outright”).

der

Du könntest mich doch abholen… — Ja, Pustekuchen! Nimm dir mal schön ’n Taxi!

I thought you might come fetch me… — No chance! Just go and take a taxi!

(colloquial) no way!, not gonna happen!, forget about it!


შემოგევლე

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შემოგევლე • (šemogevle)


hin oder her

Schrift und Aussprache hin oder her, die Grammatik ist bezaubernd!

Writing and pronunciation aside, the grammar is beguiling!

Schimmel hin oder her, du musst die Äpfel irgendwie verkaufen, sonst sind wir pleite.

Mould or not, you must sell the apples somehow or we're broke.

Milliardär hin oder her, er wartet, wie alle anderen auch!

Billionaire or not, he's waiting like everybody else!

...or not, disregard, aside; expressing the will to ignore the nature/status of something or someone


ვაშა

ვაშა • (vaša)

From Old Georgian ვაშა (vaša). Akin to Old Armenian վաշ (vaš, “good! bravo!”) and possibly Persian وش (vaš, “good, excellent”).

ვაშა ჩვენს გუნდს! გაუმარჯოს ძლევამოსილ არმიას, ვაშა!

Hurrah to our team! To the mighty army, hurrah!

vaša čvens gunds! gaumarǯos ʒlevamosil armias, vaša!


не стоит благодарности

не сто́ит благода́рности

не сто́ит благода́рности • (ne stóit blagodárnosti)

не сто́ит благода́рности (canonical)
ne stóit blagodárnosti (romanization)

[nʲɪ‿ˈstoɪd bɫəɡɐˈdarnəsʲtʲɪ]

you're welcome, not at all, don't mention it

en-не_стоит_благодарности-ru-intj-FkQ2WLui


todah rabah

First attested in 1969; from Hebrew תּוֹדָה רַבָּה (todá rabá, “thank you very much”).

bor

תּוֹדָה רַבָּה

My warmest ties are with the young people and my friends at Gonen. // Todah rabah, and Shalom.

1969, Gertrude Samuels, The Secret of Gonen, page viii:

(in Jewish cultures) Thank you; many thanks.


eti

excuse me; hey there (said to request someone's attention)


приятно познакомиться

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прия́тно познако́миться

прия́тно познако́миться • (prijátno poznakómitʹsja)

прия́тно познако́миться (canonical)
prijátno poznakómitʹsja (romanization)

en-приятно_познакомиться-ru-intj-ieI0nRxd


'türlich

[ˈtʰyːɐ̯lɪç]

Türlich, türlich – sicher, Dicker / Türlich, türlich – is' alles klar?

2000, “Türlich, türlich (sicher, Dicker)”, performed by Das Bo:

Sure, sure – of course buddy / Sure, sure – am I understood?

(informal, uncommon) for sure (affirmative interjection)


sleep tight

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sleep tight.wav

The word tight is sometimes explained as here meaning “well, soundly”. However, it can just as well be interpreted in its literal sense of “firm, fast”; compare fast asleep.

"Thank you for washing the dishes."
"Goodnight, Mr Smith.
"Goodnight, Miss Martin. Sleep tight."
Miss Martin's door closes. Hear her light switch on.
Smith locking latches on doors and windows. Turning off the faint music on the vast radio. The light out under Miss Martin's door.

1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), pages 138, 139:

A farewell said shortly before going to bed; usually said between family members or good friends.


musha

—Musha, God be with them times! said the old man. There was some life in it then.

Och! musha bedad, man alive, but it's a fine counthry over here, and it bangs all the jewel of a view we do be havin' from the windys, begorra!

1901, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Penelope's Irish Experiences:

When her neighbour, Mrs. Ryan, looked in, she could not forbear mentioning the expected call, and was further elated because Mrs. Ryan at once remarked: "Sure, 'twill be Bessy he's after," though she herself, of course, disclaimed the idea, saying: "Och musha, ma'am, not at all."

1895, Barlow Jane, Strangers at Lisconnel:

Well, here now, here's five hogs to begin with; and, musha, but I never thought I'd be spending my loose change that way.'

1841, Charles Lever, Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2):

(Ireland, archaic) an expression of surprise

(Ireland) an expression of sympathy. Also often used ironically


shame, shame

Sir William: No, there are still many things, and I cannot emphasize this too strongly, not on top of other things. I myself, on my way here this evening, saw a thing that was not on top of another thing in any way.
Other members: Shame, shame!

1970, “The Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus:

You must believe it whether you will or no—for tis true, that neither the Marquis, nor any one of his family are in possession of any place under, or any pension from the State. (Great tumult, and cries of "Shame! Shame!")

1831, The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend:

I condemn the content of this speech; Expression of admonishment or disgust at the content of a speech.


ძლივს

ძლივს • (ʒlivs)


боже мой

бо́же мо́й! • (bóže mój!)

бо́же мо́й ! (canonical)
bóže mój! (romanization)


о боже

о боже ! (canonical)
o bože! (romanization)

Alternative letter-case form of о Боже! (o Bože!)


о боже

о бо́же! • (o bóže!)

о бо́же ! (canonical)
o bóže! (romanization)

— О бо́же! — простона́л Шу́бин и закати́л глаза́ под лоб, а Берсе́нев усмехну́лся мо́лча.

1860, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “II”, in Накануне; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., On the Eve, 1895:

'O Lord!' groaned Shubin, rolling his eyes upwards; and Bersenyev smiled quietly.

— O bóže! — prostonál Šúbin i zakatíl glazá pod lob, a Bersénev usmexnúlsja mólča.


ნახვამდის

ნახვა (naxva, “seeing”) + -მდის (-mdis, “until”). Compare Russian до свидания (do svidanija, “until seeing”), Armenian ցտեսություն (cʻtesutʻyun, “until seeing”). An English equivalent would be "until we meet again" or, more literally, "until (our) re-seeing".


bondjoû

/bɔ̃.ˈd͡ʒuː/


sipirc

A playful derivation from sicc (“shoo”). Originally, it was a dialectal exclamation used to drive away cats.

(colloquial, humorous) off you go! out/off with you! scram!

(dialectal) shoo! (an exclamation used to drive away cats)


hess

shoo! (an exclamation used to drive away birds)


sicc

An onomatopoeia. Compare Serbo-Croatian ши̏ц, šȉc, Romanian șiț.


מילא

he-interj

מֵילָא • (meilá)

Unknown. Originates from מִמֵּילָא (mímeilá, “by/of itself”), a Talmudic hapax legomenon.


pardie

From Middle English parde, from Anglo-Norman pardi, pardeu, and Old French pardeu, from par (“by”) + Deu (“God”).

Yet notwithſtandyng all this geare, / thou cougheſt ſtill, perdy / Ye are a craftie knaue, you cough / to fare deliciouſly.

1577, Martial, “Epigrammes out of Martial. [To Parthenope.]”, in Timothe Kendall, transl., Flowers of Epigrammes […], [Manchester]: […] [Charles Simms] for the Spenser Society, published 1874, →OCLC, pages 56–57:

“Perdy,” (said Britomart) “the choise is hard; / But what reward had he that overcame?”

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

“Pardy,” return’d the king, “but still / My joints are somewhat stiff or so. / My lord, and shall we pass the bill / I mention’d half an hour ago?”

1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 157:


erce

Attested in the 11th-century Æcerbot ("field-remedy") charm.
The triple invocation erce, erce, erce is compared to the Latin sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, and interpreted as derived from a vocative form of eorcnan "true, genuine; holy", or a proper name Erce, from an earlier *Eorce for a fertility goddess addressed as "mother of earth".

Erce, erce, erce, / eorðan módor, / geunne ðe se alwealda / éce drihten / æcera wexendra / and wriðendra, / eácniendra and elniendra! […]

A Spell to promote the Fertility of Land rendered sterile by Witchcraft. From M. S. Cott. Caligula, A. 7., in: A Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Tongue from the Danish of Erasmus Rask. By Benjamin Thorpe, 2nd edition, London, 1865, p. 148ff., excerpt from p. 151

Erce, erce, erce, mother of earth, may the all-wielder grant thee, the great Lord, acres waxing and covering, increasing and strengthening! […]


no fear

The opposing senses of the interjection derive from the phrase functioning as an ellipsis of both have no fear ("be assured") and there is no fear of that happening ("it's impossible").

Mary Austin (1918) The Trail Book: “"No fear," he said. "Every man will know his own when I come to the Council."”

You want me to handle it? No fear.

Synonym of never fear: no worries, don't worry.

M. R. James (1904) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary: “"Why, did you show him up some rot?"
"No fear," he said.”

Dorothy L. Sayers (1947) Creed or Chaos: “Q: Will thou be baptized in this faith?
A: No fear!”

Toad: You should take up swimming!
Rabbit: No fear, toad!

1992, The Animals of Farthing Wood, episode 2:

You're afraid I would handle it? No fear.

(British, dated) Synonym of no way: absolutely not.


ბარაქა

From Arabic بَرَكَة (baraka, “blessing”).


ბე

ჯესლუღი დოლოხენდო / მეშკირჩაჲ უჩა ფორჩა / სი მოლახარ. ბე, ბოზო / თოლეფე გიღუნ უჩა.

She's wearing a black shirt / Inside your breastplate / You'll drive me crazy. O, girl / You have black eyes.

cesluği doloxendo / meşǩirçay uça porça / si molaxar. be, bozo / tolepe giğun uça.

(exclamation used to address a lady) o, woman, hey

ობადერა ოროფა / მუ დოგაჭინ? ბე, ბადი! / გური ბადი ვარ იჲენ / ოროფა ონ მურადი.

What is the need for love in old age? Old man! / The heart does not grow old / There is happiness in love.

obadera oropa / mu dogaç̌in? be, badi! / guri badi var iyen / oropa on muradi.

(Vizha, exclamation used to address an older man with respect) o, hey


puh-lease

Puh-lease! I went to a bar mitzvah once. That doesn't make me Jewish.

1997, Don Roos, The Opposite of Sex, spoken by Lucia (Lisa Kudrow):

(sarcastic) An expression of annoyance or impatience.


ooh-ah-ah

/ˈʔuːˌʔɑːˌʔɑː/

onomatopoeic

Imitative

(onomatopoeia) Synonym of oo oo aa aa (“used to represent the sound of a monkey's cry”)


bakaw

Saying this in the nicest way possible.... BAKAW BUK BUK BACAW

2000 January 10, NetGuy [username], “Re: Hello Guys!!”, in alt.romance.teen (Usenet):

She's just a big chicken.
 Bawk, bawk, bakaw!

2002 April 27, Jim Larson, “Re: (spoilers ahoy!) okay well I've given up”, in alt.tv.farscape (Usenet):

The one-eyed butcher's stall, with its buckets of guts and crates of eggs, stood before me. I could see the one-eyed butcher perched behind a massive chopping block, swiftly hacking away.
BAWK! BAWK! BA-KAW!

2012, Wai Chin, Chook Chook: Mei's Secret Pets, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN:


ჯო

(Kakheti) Alternative form of ბიჭო (bič̣o, “man”)


weź

(colloquial) c'mon, come on (expression of disbelief or frustration)


pugh

"Pugh!" says Sophia. "There! no, no: what should he do there? He is gone before this time, to be sure. Besides, why—what—why should you go to see? besides, I want you for something else. Go, fetch me my hat and gloves. I shall walk with my aunt in the grove before dinner."

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

(archaic) Alternative form of pooh: an expression of contempt, disgust, etc.


send her down Hughie

Hughie (“diminutive of Hugh, a male given name”) is a god of rain, addressed as an ordinary person.

All night it poured down but Dinny grinned and applauded.
‘Send her down, Hughie!’ he cried, as the diggers used to on Coolgardie and Hannans.

1948, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Golden Miles, page 425:

The wind was bucking round to the west and heavy rain had started again.
“Send her down, Hughie!” he said under his breath, thinking with satisfaction of the soil being gouged out of Sunderland′s paddock and carried off into the rising river.

1970, Colin Thiele, Labourers in the Vineyard, page 229:

‘Ah, that′s it, send her down, Hughie!’ he yelled at the sky.
‘Hughie?’
‘The rain, my darlin'. Hughie sends down the rain.’
‘You mean God?’ she asked, shocked. Aunt Ann was firm about not taking the Lord′s name in vain.
‘Nah. Hughie′s just ... Hughie.[…]’

2010, Jackie French, A Waltz for Matilda:

(Australia) An appeal for continued rain, invoked when it comes after a long drought.


राम-राम

hi-interj

राम-राम • (rām-rām) (Urdu spelling رام رام)

[ɾä̃ːm.ɾä̃ːm]


dunder

Borrowed from German Donner, from Middle High German doner, from Old High German donar, thonar, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz.

(idiomatic) blast it, goddamn (used to show displeasure or disappointment)


జోజో

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జోజో • (jōjō)


జేజే

జేజే • (jējē)

/d͡ʑeːd͡ʑeː/

[d͡ʒeːd͡ʒeː]


तौबा

Borrowed from Classical Persian تَوْبَه (tawba), from Arabic تَوْبَة (tawba). Cognate with Bengali তওবা (toōba).


ना

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ना • (nā) (Latin script ?, Kannada script ?)


توبہ

تَوبَہ (canonical)
tauba (romanization)
तौबा (Hindi)

Borrowed from Classical Persian تَوْبَه (tawba), from Arabic تَوْبَة (tawba).


guácala

(Latin America, colloquial) ew, yuck indicates displeasure, disgust, or revulsion


მშვიდობით

მშვიდობით • (mšvidobit)


בר מינן

בַּר מִינַן • (bár minán)

בַּר מִינַן (canonical)
bár minán (romanization)

From Aramaic, meaning “outside of us”. The noun is first attested in writings of the twelfth or thirteenth century; the interjection derives from the noun.

וכן הוא כל זמן שישראל עושים רצונו של מקום נחש כופף ראשו ולהפך בר מינן.

1742, Chaim ibn Attar, Ohr ha-Chaim, commentary on Genesis 3

So it is, as long as Israel obeys the will of G-d, a snake will bow his head, and otherwise — may it not happen to us.

v'khén hú kól z'mán sheyisra'él osím r'tsonó shél hamakóm nakhásh koféf roshó v'lahéfekh bár minán.


órale

From ora (aphetic form of ahora) + le. Unrelated to the imperative órale (“pray!, say!”) in etymology 2, though perhaps influenced by it through association. Some other Mexican Spanish exhortative exclamations are proparoxytone imperative forms ending in -le (ándale, apúrale, córrele, etc.).

(Mexico) let's go, come on, hurry (used to exhort)

(Mexico) oh my God, wow, whoa (indicates amazement, astonishment, excitement, surprise, shock, fear)

(Mexico) yes, okay, alright (indicates approbation)


నమస్కారము

Te-నమస్కారము.oga

From Sanskrit नमस्कार (namaskāra, “respectful greetings”) + -ము (-mu).

bor

te:నమస్కారము

a salutation; a greeting used for most purposes including hello, good morning/afternoon, and goodbye


clum

Perhaps for *clomen (“stiff, numb”), past participle of *cleomen (“to be stiff”); compare Middle English acleomen (“to be stiff”), related to Middle English clumsen, clomsen (“to be stiff, be numb”), Dutch kleumen (“to be stiff from cold”); or perhaps representing Old English clom, clam, clamm (“band, bond, fetter, chain, grip, grasp”). Compare also Old English clumian (“to mutter”). More at clam.

‘Now, Pater-noster, clom!’ seyde Nicholay,

late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3638-3639

"Now, Pater-noster, quiet!" said Nicholay,
And "quiet," said John, and "quiet," said Alisoun.

And ‘clom,’ quod John, and ‘clom,’ seyde Alisoun.


wisha

From Irish mhuise, originally a euphemism for A Mhuire! (“O Mary!”) in calling upon the Virgin Mary. Compare Irish muise.

'Wisha! wisha,' says I. 'A pound of chops,' says he, 'coming into the Mansion House.'


ay me

Ay me, it is my husband.

c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

Ay-me, to whom did I reserve, to discover that singular and loving affection, which in my soule I bare unto him?

Ay me! they little know / How dearly I abide that boast so vain[…].

1667, John Milton, “Book LXXXIX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 76-77:

(now archaic) Expressing grief, sorrow etc.


whoof

Whoof! whoof! its steaming breath hissed at her.

1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 5:

The sound of a steam train, steam boat, etc.


wough

As it scrambled swiftly over the edge it caught sight of the elephant and with a deep "wough!" charged straight at it.

The trapper shouted and waved his cap; whereupon, to his amazement, the bear uttered a loud "wough" and charged straight down on him--only to fall a victim to misplaced boldness.

1884, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches:

Bough wough, The watch dogs bark, Bough wough, Hark, hark!

1863, Various, The Children's Garland from the Best Poets:


my certie

Weel, lassie, walk ye by the burn, And walk ye slow and sly; My certie! weel ye ken the gate That Geordie Young comes by!

1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI:

Englishmen, for instance, will say that I am a bad speller, and that my language is kittle; and such of the Irishers as can read, will be threaping that I have abused their precious country; but, my certie, instead of blaming me for letting out what I could not deny, they must just learn to behave themselves better when they come to see us, or bide at home.

1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch:


ایواه

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ایواه • (eyvâh)

ota-interjection

ایواه • (eyvâh)

Turkish: eyvah


ایواه

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ایواه • (eyvâh)


more power to your elbow

/mɔː ˈpaʊə tʊ jə ˈɛlbəʊ/

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/mɔɹ ˈpaʊɚ tʊ jɚ ˈɛlboʊ/

Possibly an elaboration of more power to you, with the speaker expressing the wish that the person addressed will have more strength to achieve their goal.

Naturally the forms of traction occupy Mr. [Geoffrey] Freeman Allen much of his time and he sits on no fence here; he is an "electrifier", with good reasons advanced—more power to his elbow.

1959 May, G. F. Fiennes (reviewer), “New Reading on Railways: British Railways Today and Tomorrow. By G. Freeman Allen. Ian Allan. 25s.”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 271:

(British) Used to express admiration of a person coupled with wishes for their continued success in an endeavour of their own choosing: all the best; good luck.


à vot'sàntaïe

(idiomatic, Guernsey) to your health, cheers


disponha

/d͡ʒiʃˈpõ.ɲɐ/

[d͡ʒiʃˈpõ.j̃ɐ]

think nothing of it, you're welcome, don't mention it


बधाई

hi-interj

बधाई • (badhāī)

From बधाना (badhānā) + -आई (-āī). Cognate with Gujarati વધાઈ (vadhāī).


gaʼ

Éí gaʼ shaa ninánóhʼaah


croac

(onomatopoeia) ribbit (the sound made by a frog or toad)


افغان

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افغان • (afğân)

Derived from Sogdian [script needed] (ʾβγʾn /əfɣaːn/). Cognate with Middle Persian ʾbxwʾn- (abxwān-, “to call, cry”).


होय

होय, मी भारताचा जबाबदार नागरिक आहे.

Yes, I am a responsible citizen of India.


ongi etorri

LL-Q8752 (eus)-Xabier Cañas-ongi etorri.wav

From ongi (“well”) + etorri (“to come”).


ngikhona

I'm fine (in response to a greeting); "I am here."


bammo

Bammo! I did it!

An exclamatory indication of excitement or victory, for example when having completed a difficult task, or won something.


musani

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musani (to multiple people, to one person musa)


तथा

तथा • (táthā)

Pali: tathā

→ Assamese: তথা (totha) (learned)

→ Gujarati: તથા (tathā) (learned)

→ Hindi: तथा (tathā) (learned)

→ Malayalam: തഥാ (tathā) (learned)

→ Marathi: तथा (tathā) (learned)

→ Nepali: तथा (tathā) (learned)

→ Telugu: తథా (tathā) (learned)

/ˈt̪ɐ.t̪ʰɑː/

From तद् (tad, “that”). For the suffix, compare यथा (yathā) from यद् (yad).


ախ

ախ անել / ախ քաշել

an exclamation of pain, grief, yearning, or regret


तो

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit, probably from Sanskrit ततस् (tatas, “from there”).

तो हम क्या करें?

सच तो यह है कि आज घर पे ही रहा।

The truth is, actually, that I stayed at home today.

बोलो तो!

तो भी


ambasa

Alternative form of ambaiste (“Indeed! Really!”)


qujanarsuaq

From qujanaq (“thank you”) + -suaq (“big”).


happy trails

Happy trails, Hans.

1988, Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza, Die Hard, spoken by John McClane (Bruce Willis):

Well, happy trails. Give me a call when you get back.

An' if it's a choice between my life an' yours, or the lives of everybody that happens to be wherever you're plannin' on crashin' this thing, then...well, happy trails to ya!

2012, Christopher Poole, Hero Town, page 234:

An expression of good wishes for somebody departing for a voyage or for an indefinite period of time: best wishes, good luck.


rajt

Vigyázz, kész, rajt!

Ready, steady, go! or On your mark, get set, go!


yáadilá óolyé

oh dear, oh my goodness, oh my god (expresses disgust or disapproval)


huh-uh

"You could take my horse and herd a couple for me, if we have to—"
"Huh-uh," said South Boy in decisive negation. "That'd be worse than herding weanlings."

1994, Charles L. McNichols, Crazy Weather, page 160:


아이고

아이고 어머나!


გმადლობ

From მადლობა (madloba, “thanks”), from მადლი (madli, “mercy”).

thank you (a specific expression of gratitude)