end of

End of, stop sulking / Get out, you're walkin' / Too bad, I've spoken / But when I look at you you're forgiven

1997, “Drop Dead Gorgeous”, performed by Republica:

‘I came round here to try and help you.’
‘But no one in here is looking for your help, Keisha! This is it! I ain't looking for you, end of.’

2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 261:

Boris Johnson, never one to fuss about detail, does not realise that without a deal there will be no implementation period. No withdrawal agreement means just that—no agreement. Just out. End of. But as both contenders now consider no deal a serious option, we need to be 100% honest about the implications[.]

2019 July 3, Baroness Smith of Basildon,, “Brexit: Appointment of Joint Committee”, in parliamentary debates (House of Lords), volume 798, column 1445:

But if you search up a list of news stories on the subject over the years you find, as with the climate crisis, an overwhelming consensus: alcohol is really quite bad for you, end of.

2023 June 14, Adrian Chiles, “Drinking alcohol is bad for you – end of. Ignore the headlines that claim otherwise”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK, colloquial, idiomatic) Ellipsis of end of story.


fuddle-duddle

There is an example of the phrase's use in the early 1940s, in "Mother Finds a Body", by Gypsy Rose Lee: "...when [he] asks me where I was on the night of so-and-so, I'll tell him to go fuddle his duddle".
However the expression fuddle-duddle is attributed to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former prime minister of Canada, who according to some sources said it in parliament on 16 February 1971 and repeated it when pressed by television reporters about using profanity in respect to members of Parliament (Canadian House of Commons).

What is the nature of your thoughts, gentlemen, when you say “fuddle duddle” or something like that?

1971, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(euphemistic, originally Canada) Fuck! Fuck off!


どうもありがとう

ja-pos

どうもありがとう • (dōmo arigatō) ^(←どうもありがたう (doumoarigatau)?)

dōmo arigatō (romanization)
doumoarigatau (romanization)
どうもありがたう (hiragana historical)

Phrase consisting of どうも (dōmo, “very”) + ありがとう (arigatō, “thank you”).


gee whiz

You only got 10% in the test. Gee whiz – you'll get over it.

When people would get off they always gasped out: 'Gee whiz, what a horse! Gee whiz, did you ever see anything like that! '

1905, Lloyd Osbourne, Baby Bullet: The Bubble of Destiny, page 116:

Gee whiz, how do people have fun when they're married and have a family?

1959 April 23, “Beaver's Newspaper”, in Leave It to Beaver, season 2, episode 30 (television production), spoken by Theodore Cleaver (Jerry Mathers):

That's the way I feel now; I just wrote the novels and made up the languages, and gee whiz, they make sense!

1979, Walter Breen, The Darkover Concordance:

(US, dated) An expression of surprise, enthusiasm, or annoyance: wow or so what?


you knows it

This phrase was popularised by The GLC from Newport, Wales, but has had currency in US Afro-American vernacular English and possibly elsewhere since no later than the 1960s.

What he did to her was wrong. —You knows it, sister!

Mose would ha rallied, ef eed a been in our ward — ha ! ha ! ha ! — you knows it, Mass Richard !

1861, Frederick Law Olmsted, The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery, page 187:

Buster: (impressed) You'se a cool dude, Butch. / Butch: Hey, you knows it, baby.

1984, Brian Richard Mori, Dreams of Flight, page 20:

We welcome you, you knows it. Didn't even need to ask, but it fine all right you did.

2002, Lorian Hemingway, A World Turned Over: A Killer Tornado and the Lives It Changed Forever, page 112:

(idiomatic, dialect, slang) Indicates agreement, approval, encouragement.


baj

From the West Bothnia and East Gothland dialectal word baj (“filth”). According to Rietz, possibly related to Middle High German baht.

Fy baj, lilla Maja!

1846, Johan August Lundell, Om rättstafningsfrågan. Tre föreläsningar.:

(obsolete, 18–19th century) chastening of children when they dirtied themselves, or exhibited bad behavior

(obsolete, 19th century) warning for children to watch out for something filthy, uncomfortable, or shameful

Baj baj, så Herr Rolf talar!

1820, Carl Israel Hallman, C. I. Hallmans Skrifter:

"Usch, fy baj! Ricinolja!" ropades i korus omkring bordet.

1896, Eugenie Beskow-Heerberger, För svenska barn : sagor och berättelser:

Yuk, disgusting! Castor oil!" they shouted in chorus around the table.

(jokingly, obsolete, 19th century) more generally showing dislike or disgust of indiscretion, vulgarity, or shameful behaviour


όπα

Extension of οπ! (op!), οnomatopoeic from Turkish hop. (compare with Portuguese opa, English hop).

hey!, olé! (indicating good cheer, often used during dancing, expressing fun, enthusiasm and excitement)

Όπα! για κοίτα ποιος ήρθε!

Indicating endearment and care, accompanying singing to infants.

oops, expression for acknowledgment of a minor mistake.


kertas

From Arabic قِرْطَاس (qirṭās), ultimately from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Doublet of carta and kad.
* Semantic loan from English paper for a set of examination questions.

(onomatopoeia) The sound of paper being crumpled.


guna

From pinyin transcription of the phrase 滾啊 (gǔn a, “go away, go to hell”).

(Mandarin, Internet slang, humorous, euphemistic) go away; get lost; GTFO


guna

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of gute Nacht.


hands up

(idiomatic) Put your hands up (if you wish to participate).

(idiomatic) Surrender (by raising your hands)!


good riddance

/ˌɡʊd ˈɹɪdns/

Appears first in phrases like a great riddance or 'a fair riddance'. An earlier use than William Shakespeare's is in a letter dated 3 August 1597 from Lord Burgh to Sir Robert Cecil in the State Papers relating to Ireland, p.364- or in good riddance. A later use is from William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, 2, i.

I couldn’t be more glad to see the back of them. Good riddance, I say.

Goodbye and good riddance!

[T]o tell you my mind, Lucretia, I think it's a good riddance. I don't want any of your brazen faces here, myself!

[1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Mr. Dombey and the World”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 510:

After 50 years of farming, Fisch too has left the ostrich business, and says good riddance.

2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They May Look Goofy, but Ostriches are Nobody’s Fool”, in National Geographic:

(negative connotation) Used to indicate that a departure or loss is welcome.

رَحِيل غَيْر مَأْسُوف عَلَيْهِ

used to indicate that a departure or loss is welcome

дүрт яғың ҡибла (dürt yağıñ qibla, literally “your four directions are qibla”)

дүрт яғы ҡибла (dürt yağı qibla, literally “his/her four directions are qibla”)

ба́ба з калёс — калёсам лягчэ́й (bába z kaljós — kaljósam ljahčéj)

but commonly something like gut, dass wir den/das/die los sind

ска́тертью доро́га (skátertʹju doróga, literally “let the road be like a tablecloth”)

ба́ба с во́зу — кобы́ле ле́гче (bába s vózu — kobýle léxče, literally “when an old woman leaves the cart, the mare feels easier”)

lycklig resa! bli kvitt (något eller någon)

ба́ба з во́за — коня́м ле́гше (bába z vóza — konjám léhše)

ברוך שפּטרני (borekh shepotrane, literally “blessed be He who has freed me”)


szabad

Borrowed from a Slavic language. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *svoboda (“freedom”). Compare Serbo-Croatian slȍbodan, Polish swobodny, Czech svobodný.


szabad

Excuse me! (requesting passage through the crowd)


mek

Mek-mek-mek... Hát te meg ki vagy? - csodálkozott el a kecske.

2014, Brátán Erzsébet, Fannici és az elsüllyedt birodalom:

bleat (the characteristic sound of a goat, can be used repetitively)


kut

Derivation from Proto-Germanic *kweþuz (“abdomen, belly”) (compare Old Norse kviðr (“abdomen, belly”) and Gothic 𐌵𐌹𐌸𐌿𐍃 (qiþus, “womb”) is unlikely. Probably kut is cognate with kuit (“spawn”) and kont (“ass”). Also Old Dutch quintuc (“genitals of a female dog”) [8th century] might be related.


échec

→ Catalan: xec

Inherited from Old French eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic شَاه (šāh, “king or check at chess, shah”), from Classical Persian شاه (šāh, “king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /šāh/), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /xšāyaθiya/, “king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati (“he rules, he has power over”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to receive”). See also French mat.


moce

From Proto-Central-Pacific *moce, from Proto-Oceanic (compare with Tongan mohe, Maori moe).


nuk

(comics) The sound of a pacifier being suckled on.


ta-ta

→ Portuguese: tatá


ta ta for now

/təˌtɑː fə ˈnaʊ/

From ta ta with the addition of for now to emphasise hope that the parting will not be permanent.

1974: Tigger (voiced by Paul Winchell) in Unbouncing Tigger
Well, I gotta go, now! I got a lot of bouncing to do! Hoo-hoo-hoo! TTFN! Ta ta for now!

(informal) see ya, laters, (less formal version of) au revoir or till we meet again


ta ta

→ Burmese: တာ့တာ (ta.ta), တာတား (tata:)

desc

→ Malayalam: റ്റാറ്റാ (ṟṟāṟṟā)

→ Malayalam: റ്റാറ്റാ (ṟṟāṟṟā)

“[…]Well, ta-ta, sweetheart! Don′t expect me back to lunch.”

1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, The Echo Library, published 2007, page 229:

1923 (recorded 1900), Ed Smith (Cranbrook Courier), Reminiscences of Kootenay Pioneers, recalling an event claimed to be the origin of the place name Ta Ta Creek; viewed in British Columbia archives),
Red put the spurs to his horse and galloped away: “Ta ta, friends, I′ve business up the trail.”

‘No more questions? Then I′ll be off. Ta-ta.’

1967, Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock, page 55:

(chiefly Commonwealth, UK, Ireland, informal, colloquial) Goodbye.


selamat

From Malay selamat, from Arabic سَلَامَة (salāma, “good health”).


selamat

From Malay selamat, from Arabic سَلَامَات (salāmāt), plural of سَلَام (salām).


nock

From Middle English nokke, attested since the 14th century, probably from a Scandinavian/North Germanic language (compare Swedish nock (“notch”), but compare Dutch nok, from Middle Dutch nocke (“tip, point”). Both could be related to nook (“corner, recess”).

(archery) fit the arrow to your bowstring


沒關係

/meɪ̯³⁵ ku̯än⁵⁵ ɕi²/

/meɪ̯³⁵ ku̯än⁵⁵ ɕi⁵⁵/

/muːt̚² kʷaːn⁵⁵ hɐi̯²²/

/meɪ̯³⁵ ku̯än⁵⁵ ɕi²/

/meɪ̯³⁵ ku̯än⁵⁵ ɕi⁵⁵/

/muːt̚² kʷaːn⁵⁵ hɐi̯²²/

沒關係，下次注意就是了。

没关系，下次注意就是了。

It's all right if you forgot the key; I will open the door for you.

Wàng le ná yàoshi méiguānxì, wǒ bāng nǐ kāimén.

忘了拿鑰匙沒關係，我幫你開門。

忘了拿钥匙没关系，我帮你开门。

(colloquial) no problem; it doesn't matter; no need to say thanks, apologize or assist (said in reply to an expression of gratitude, regret, willingness to help, etc.)


Judas Priest

“Judas priest!” he stammered, for here was his right-hand man as good as dead.

1919, George Allan England, Cursed, page 67:


パリ

(onomatopoeia) the sound of crackling, crinkling, or crunching


hidup

Inherited from Malay hidup, from Classical Malay hidup, from Old Malay hidup, from Proto-Malayic *hidup, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hudip by metathesis, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qudip, from Proto-Austronesian *qudip. Doublet of urip and urit.

Hidup rakyat Indonesia!

viva; long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support).


fair suck of the sav

fair suck of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sauce bottle#English

(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) Synonym of fair suck of the sauce bottle


upa

giddyup (instruction for a horse to move faster)


幸會

/ɕiŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/

/hɐŋ²² wuːi̯²²/

/ɕiŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/

/hɐŋ²² wuːi̯²²/


holy guacamole

Holy guacamole, that's a big fish!

Holy guacamole, Batman—do you suppose they're planning to rush up here and take back Texas?

2013, Linda Lael Miller, State Secrets, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

(slang) An exclamation said when surprised, used when in shock or disbelief.


ta everso

c. 2003: "Alan Ontario" (poster on BBC: Devon: Have your say messageboard, read at https://web.archive.org/web/20041214193412/http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/have_your_say/devon_expats2.shtml on 13 May 2006), Devon expats: news from abroad - Now that the links have been fixed I am able to bring up all the previous messages ... ta everso.


manok

Said when a person will be the first to play a game


no worries

From no + plural of worry (“concern, cause for anxiety”), but used flexibly.

Sorry if my music's bothering you. — No worries. I really like classical.

(especially Australia, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, colloquial) A general injunction not to be concerned further with a subject.

It does not bother me; I am not concerned.

Thanks for the lovely bowl of fruit. — No worries, my sister runs a stall at the market.

It was no problem; not at all; you're welcome.

I need this done by closing time. — No worries, I'll have it sorted.


ta muchly

(colloquial, British) thank you very much


fair suck of the sauce bottle

/ˌfɛə ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔːs ˈbɒt(ə)l/

/ˌfɛɚ ˈsʌk əv ðə ˈsɔs ˈbɑtəl/

Australian National Dictionary Centre
Australian National University

An elaboration of fair go (used in protest to implore or demand that someone act with more fairness or reason). Sauce bottle appears to refer to a bottle of cheap beer or another alcoholic beverage; see sauce (“(slang) alcohol, booze”).

Mary Beecher, 19, and her sister coeds love to date Americans and Englishmen but have a hard time communicating. "They just don't understand our talk," she reported and promptly wrote them a "Brief Australian Dictionary." [...] "Fair suck of the sauce bottle" means "Let's be civilized about this;" [...]

[1973 March 22, “Aussie talk is baffling”, in The Sun, volume 272, number 107, Baltimore, Md.: The A[runah] S[hepherdson] Abell Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B6, column 1:

I tried to calm him down. "Fair suck of the sauce bottle," I said. "Take it easy, mate. I was just admiring your cobber. Don't often see a man like him around."

1983, Alistair Skelton, Bill’s Break, Prahan, Vic.: Champion Books, →ISBN, page 198:

‘Garn with ya. Fair suck of the sauce bottle’, countered Sid. ‘Look all ya gotta do is knock a little bit of the tube out and it won′t wink anymore. Get a yonnie and give it a little tap.’

1986, [Bruce Pascoe], editor, Australian Short Stories, number 15, Fairfield, Vic.: Pascoe Pub., →OCLC, page 10:

Some idiots even blamed him [Sidney Kidman] for the drought—and the depression—because he owned so much country. Fair suck of the sauce bottle, I tell you.

1992, Jill Bowen, Kidman: The Forgotten King (Imprint Lives), Pymble, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, →ISBN:

Come on Aussie, fair suck of the sauce bottle, here's the opportunity to recognise Aboriginal cultural and economic excellence and put our money where our mouth is. Instead of mouthing platitudes about Aboriginal employment, we will buy food directly from the descendants of the people who developed an incredible array of health giving crops and managed them in perpetuity … until 1788; until the British insisted on the sheep and the spud.

2018 May 29, Bruce Pascoe, “Comment: Let’s Talk about Real Australian Food”, in Special Broadcasting Service, archived from the original on 2019-09-21:

(Australia, colloquial, informal) Used to protest against unreasonableness, such as somebody taking more than their fair share.


zot

Sound effect in the comic strip B.C., first published in 1958, associated with both (1) the rapid tongue of an anteater character and (2) lightning bolts.

(US) The characteristic sound made by an anteater's tongue or by lightning.


cső

From a Slavic language; compare Proto-Slavic *cěvь, *cěva. The interjection sense has developed in modern times due to the word's phonetic similarity with csaó (“ciao”) or csá (“ciao”).


skol

Borrowed from Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish skål.

Again they notice he has impressed her and again he grows more cheerful, clinking his glass against hers and saying ‘Skol!’

1990, Alasdair Gray, “A Free Man with a Pipe”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 490:

(originally and chiefly in Scotland) A drinking-toast; cheers.


matay

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(m-)atay (“die; dead; sick; tired (of)”), from Proto-Austronesian *ma-aCay (“die; dead; eclipse of sun or moon”), from Proto-Austronesian *aCay (“death”). Compare Malay mati.

inh

(humorous) oh really (an expression of surprise)


再見

desc

→ Japanese: 再見 (tsaichen), 再見 (saichen), 再見 (zaichen)

/t͡saɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

/t͡sɛ⁴⁴ t͡ɕiæ̃⁴⁴/

/t͡sɔːi̯³³ kiːn³³/

/t͡saɪ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ kian⁵³/

/t͡sai²¹³⁻⁵³ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾iɛŋ²¹³/

/t͡sai²¹⁻⁴¹ kiɛn²¹/

/t͡sai¹¹⁻⁵³ kiɛn¹¹/

/t͡sai²¹⁻⁵³ kiɛn²¹/

/t͡sai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kiɛn⁴¹/

/t͡sai²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡siɛn⁴¹/

/t͡sai¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡siɛn⁵³/

/t͡sai²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kĩ²¹³/

/t͡sai²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kieŋ²¹³/

/t͡sai²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kiaŋ²¹³/

/t͡se⁵⁵ t͡ɕi²¹/

/t͡saɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

/t͡sɛ⁴⁴ t͡ɕiæ̃⁴⁴/

/t͡sɛ⁴⁴ t͡ɕiæ̃⁴⁴/

/t͡sɔːi̯³³ kiːn³³/

/t͡saɪ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ kian⁵³/

/t͡sai²¹³⁻⁵³ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾iɛŋ²¹³/

/t͡sai²¹⁻⁴¹ kiɛn²¹/

/t͡sai¹¹⁻⁵³ kiɛn¹¹/

/t͡sai²¹⁻⁵³ kiɛn²¹/

/t͡sai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ kiɛn⁴¹/

/t͡sai²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡siɛn⁴¹/

/t͡sai¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡siɛn⁵³/

/t͡sai²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kĩ²¹³/

/t͡sai²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kieŋ²¹³/

/t͡sai²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kiaŋ²¹³/

/t͡se⁵⁵ t͡ɕi²¹/

[Goodbye, my love]. I don't know where we'll meet [again] someday.

1975, performed by Teresa Teng, lyrics by Wen Choi, music by Masaaki Hirao, “Goodbye! my love”

goodbye my love, wǒ dì àirén zàijiàn, goodbye my love, xiàngjiàn bùzhī nǎ yītiān-

goodbye my love 我的愛人再見 goodbye my love 相見不知哪一天

goodbye my love 我的爱人再见 goodbye my love 相见不知哪一天


再見

ja-pos

再見(ツァイチェン) or 再見(サイチェン) or 再見(ザイチェン) • (tsaichen or saichen or zaichen)

再見 (canonical)
再見 (canonical)
再見 (canonical)
tsaichen (romanization)
saichen (romanization)
zaichen (romanization)

[t͡sa̠it͡ɕẽ̞ɴ]

[sa̠it͡ɕẽ̞ɴ]

[d͡za̠it͡ɕẽ̞ɴ]

zh-l

再見／再见 (zàijiàn)

(informal, rare, in a Chinese context) goodbye, see you later


cheer up

Cheer up! Things could be worse.

An encouragement to somebody who seems unhappy.


gare

Gare au refroidissement !


puti

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)putiq.
The interjection is a reference to the color of semen.

(sarcastic) used as a reply to questions asking about a result or outcome


мг

[m̩˧˨ˈm̥m̩˨˦]

(colloquial, Belarus, Ukraine) Alternative form of угу́ (uhú, ugú); mhm (yes)


гм

Гм! мысль почерпнута из одного сочинения, переведённого с немецкого. Названия не припомню.

1835, Николай Гоголь, “Ноября 13.”, in Записки сумасшедшего; English translation from Claud Field, transl., Memoirs of a Madman, 1916:

H'm! This idea comes from some book which has been translated from German. I can't remember the title.

Gm! myslʹ počerpnuta iz odnovo sočinenija, perevedjónnovo s nemeckovo. Nazvanija ne pripomnju.


bread and butter

Should this happen, retrace your steps to the point of separation if you wish to counteract the spell. Or, say the words "bread and butter."

1989, Vergilius Ture Anselm Ferm, Lightning never strikes twice (if you own a feather bed):, page 238:

Peter Bartis, at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, explains, “Bread and butter go together, a sign of unity.” He finds a citation in the seven-volume Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore: “If two persons are walking and they come to ... “When walkers were separated and did not use this phrase or bread and butter,” DARE adds, “it was believed they would have a quarrel.

2003, William Safire, No Uncertain Terms, page 46:

"Bread and butter," the larger of the two women quipped as they moved past their Nancy-obstacle. "Bread and butter!".

Before Trudy succumbed to her injuries from the bomb that destroyed her car, she uttered the words “bread and butter. Monk tells us that whenever he and Trudy had to part ways, even if only briefly, she would say bread and butter.

2011, D. E. Wittkower, Mr. Monk and Philosophy: The Curious Case of the Defective Detective:

If one of us kids was walking alongside him and we were separated by an object, whether a light pole or a person walking between us, my dad always muttered, “Bread and butter.”

2014, Wendy Davis, Forgetting to Be Afraid: A Memoir:

Said when two people walking together are temporarily separated by an obstacle in order to indicate that they belong together.


phooey

Probably from Yiddish פֿוי (foy), from German pfui, influenced by phoo.

An expression of disgust, rejection, or disappointment.


ava

(Internet slang) Alternative form of ah, vá


feliz cumpleaños

happy birthday (good wishes for a birthday)


kuku

Borrowed from Japanese くく (kuku, onomatopoeia for the sound of laughter).

ja-r

(fandom slang, chiefly in translations of Japanese works) Alternative form of kukuku (onomatopoeia for sinister laughter).


kuku

cuckoo (used to imitate the voice of a male cuckoo)


早上好

/t͡sɑʊ̯²¹⁴ ʂɑŋ⁴ xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sou̯³⁵ sœːŋ²² hou̯³⁵/

/t͡sa⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɔŋ²²⁻²¹ ho⁵³/

/t͡sa⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ ho⁵³/

/t͡sa⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ siɔŋ³³⁻²¹ hɤ⁴¹/

/t͡sa⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ siɔŋ⁴¹⁻²² ho⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡sɑʊ̯²¹⁴ ʂɑŋ⁴ xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sou̯³⁵ sœːŋ²² hou̯³⁵/

/t͡sa⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɔŋ²²⁻²¹ ho⁵³/

/t͡sa⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ ho⁵³/

/t͡sa⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ siɔŋ³³⁻²¹ hɤ⁴¹/

/t͡sa⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ siɔŋ⁴¹⁻²² ho⁵⁵⁴/


some people

Person A: You do realise that she has just jumped on the table and started shouting at the rest of the people in the room, don’t you?

Person B: Oh, some people!

(idiomatic) Expresses disapproval at the actions of a person; a disapproving response to a person doing something silly, bizarre, nonsensical or ill-mannered.


screw it

This mathematical problem is really difficult. Oh, screw it! I can't be bothered.

(mildly vulgar, slang, idiomatic) Expression of frustration or contempt.


labrīt

te pēkšņi miglā atskanēja sveiciens: “labrīt, kaimiņ!”

in the fog there suddenly sounded a greeting: “good morning, neighbor!”

polite greeting, used in the morning; good morning!


labvakar

From labs (“good”) + vakars (“evening”).

tā bija Zintra; mirkli šaubījies, piegāju viņai klāt: “labvakar”, es teicu; “labvakar”, viņa atņēma sveicienu un pasmaidīja

it was Zintra; after hesitating for a moment, I went to her: “good evening,” I said; “good evening,” she received the greeting and smiled

viņa ienāca gaišā vasaras kleitā un pateica vienkārši “labvakar”

she came in a light summer dress and said simply “good evening”

polite greeting, used in the evening; good evening!


dali

From Southern Proto-Philippine *daliq (“short time; easy”). Compare Bikol Central dali, Cebuano dali, Waray-Waray dali, and Calamian Tagbanwa dalik.


сейчас

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сейча́с • (sejčás)

сейча́с (canonical)
sejčás (romanization)

Univerbation of сей (sej) + час (čas), ”this hour”, ”this time” (note: “сей” is dated, bookish or stilted (unlike “э́тот”), “час” in the sense of “time” is dated or poetic).

сейча́съ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Ша-ща-ща-ща, секу́ндочку, щас, погоди́.

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, one second, hold on, wait.

Ša-šča-šča-šča, sekúndočku, ščas, pogodí.

(colloquial, usually with a rushed pronunciation such as щас (ščas) or ща (šča)) hold on, one sec, wait


βοήθεια

βοήθεια • (voḯtheia)

From Ancient Greek βοήθεια (boḗtheia, “help, aid, succour”).


آمين

ar-interj

آمِينَ • (ʔāmīna)

آمِينَ (canonical)
ʔāmīna (romanization)

→ Afar: aamíin

Etymology tree
Biblical Hebrew אָמֵןbor.
Koine Greek ᾱ̓μήν (āmḗn)bor.?
Classical Syriac ܐܰܡܺܝܢbor.
Koine Greek ᾱ̓μήν (āmḗn)bor.?
Aramaic אַמִיןbor.
Arabic آمين
From Classical Syriac ܐܰܡܺܝܢ (ʾāmēn) or Aramaic אַמִין (ʾāmēn), possibly via Koine Greek ᾱ̓μήν (āmḗn), from Biblical Hebrew אָמֵן (ʾāmēn), from the root ء م ن (ʔ-m-n).


ναι

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El-ναι-ερωτηματικό.ogg

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όχι

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όχι • (óchi)

From Byzantine Greek ὄχι, ὤχι (ókhi, ṓkhi), from Ancient Greek οὐχί (oukhí).

Μιλάτε αγγλικά; Όχι.


wot

Wot, no bananas? ― (popular slogan during wartime rationing)

Then, wot with undertakers, and wot with parish clerks, and wot with sextons, and wot with private watchmen (all awaricious and all in it), a man wouldn't get much by it, even if it was so.

1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:


viu

Cognate with Galician viu and Spanish vio.

Viu, venha aqui quando puder.

Não faça isso, viu.

(Brazil) used at the beginning or end of a sentence, especially imperative ones, as filler


pics

From clipping of English picture + -s. Pictures are synonymous with images, and image is abbreviated as IMG in Internet slang. IMG when spelled letter by letter as “I-M-G”, sounds like “I am G”. See G for more details.

I'm in! (willing or wanting to participate in an activity)


blazes

Expression of frustration, shock, or both.


бе-бе

овца́ бле́ет


квак

квак квак ― kvak kvak ― ribbit ribbit

croak, ribbit: an imitation of the sound made by a frog.


куд-куд-кудах

куд-куд-куда́х

куд-куд-куда́х (canonical)
kud-kud-kudáx (romanization)

(imitative) cluck (sound a chicken makes)


ав-ав

ав-а́в • (av-áv)

(imitative) woof, arf (sound a dog makes)


кукареку

кукареку́ • (kukarekú)

кукареку́ (canonical)
kukarekú (romanization)

пету́х кукаре́кает

(imitative) cock-a-doodle-doo (sound a rooster makes)


гав-гав

соба́ка ла́ет


тяв-тяв

щено́к тя́вкает

(imitative) bow-wow, yap, yip (sound a pup or a small dog makes)


га-га-га

га-га-га ́ (canonical)
ga-ga-gá (romanization)

гусь гого́чет

(onomatopoeia) honk (sound a goose makes)


кудах-кудах

куда́х-куда́х

куда́х-куда́х • (kudáx-kudáx)

куда́х-куда́х (canonical)
kudáx-kudáx (romanization)


ж-ж-ж

ж-ж-ж • (ž-ž-ž)

пчёлы жужжа́т: ж-ж-ж

pčóly žužžát: ž-ž-ž

(onomatopoeia, imitative) buzz, bzz (sound a bee or fly makes)


кря-кря

кря-кря ́ (canonical)
krja-krjá (romanization)

Но скажи́те ей, пожа́луйста, что никто́ в то́чности не изобрази́л бу́квами зву́ки, кото́рые издаёт у́тка. Мо́жет быть, э́ти зву́ки бо́льше похо́жи на «кря-кря́», а мо́жет быть, и на «га-га-га́».

1956, Самуил Маршак, Письма (1950—1964) (Собрание сочинений в 8 томах), published 1972:

But please tell her that nobody has been able to exactly represent using letters the sounds that a duck makes. Maybe these sounds are more like “quack-quack”, but they might be more like “ga-ga-ga”.

No skažíte jej, požálujsta, što niktó v tóčnosti ne izobrazíl búkvami zvúki, kotóryje izdajót útka. Móžet bytʹ, éti zvúki bólʹše poxóži na «krja-krjá», a móžet bytʹ, i na «ga-ga-gá».

(imitative) quack (the sound a duck makes)


бэ-бэ

бэ-бэ • (bɛ-bɛ)


и-го-го

и-го-го́ • (ihohó)

и-го-го ́ • (canonical)
и-го-го ́ (canonical)
ihohó (romanization)
i-go-gó (romanization)

(imitative) whinny, neigh (sound a horse makes)


чик-чирик

чик-чири́к • (čik-čirík)

чик-чири́к (canonical)
čik-čirík (romanization)

(imitative) chirp (characteristic call of songbirds, typically sparrows)


чик-чирик

чик-чири́к • (čik-čirík)

воробе́й чири́кает


ку-ку

ку-ку́ • (ku-kú)

ку-ку ́ (canonical)
ku-kú (romanization)

куку́шка куку́ет

(onomatopoeia) cuckoo (sound a cuckoo makes)

(familiar) gotcha; a reaction during hide and seek or peekaboo game


хрю

свинья́ хрю́кает ― svinʹjá xrjúkajet ― a pig oinks


καληνύκτα

καληνύκτα • (kalinýkta)

καληνύχτα καληνύχτα#Greek

Alternative form of καληνύχτα (kalinýchta)


καληνύχτα

καληνύχτα • (kalinýchta)

EL-καληνύχτα.ogg

κα‧λη‧νύ‧χτα

καλή (kalí, “good”) + νύχτα (nýchta, “night”)

compound

Καληνύχτα! και όνειρα γλυκά!


muti

Clipping and -i diminutive of mutasd (“show me”, definite second-person singular subjunctive of mutat).


késaco

Borrowed from Occitan qu'es aquò? (“what is it?”).


мур

ко́шка мурлы́кает

(imitative) purr (sound a contented cat makes)


agur

→ Spanish: agur, abur

→ Galician: abur


agur

Borrowed from Basque agur, from Latin augurium. Doublet of augurio and agüero.


tori

there you go (used while giving someone something)


oxe

(Brazil) expresses surprise, dismay or admiration


noh

(Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative form of no


noh

Synonym of no (“well”) (especially before a phrase or when expressing exasperation)


noh

Noh, þetta tók þig ekki langan tíma!

an expression showing that one is impressed (either mildly or very impressed) or surprised; Oh wow; Would you look at that?


sige

Borrowed from Spanish sigue, from seguir.


sige

sige (canonical)
sigé (canonical)
ᜐᜒᜄᜒ (Baybayin)

O, sige.

Sige lang.


aia

Borrowed from Cantonese 哎呀 (ai¹ jaa³), possibly compounded with Portuguese ai.

Aia! Qui boniteza.

Aia, qui susto!

interjection expressing fear, surprise, pain, impatience


puf

poof! (deflating object or a magical disappearance)


chyba

Czech: chyba


шутка

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шу́тка! • (šútka!)

шу́тка! (canonical)
šútka! (romanization)

шути́ть (šutítʹ) + -ка (-ka)

af

шути́ть (šutítʹ) + -ка (-ka)


sure thing

"Thanks a lot for your help." / "Sure thing!"

"Can you finish by tomorrow?" / "Sure thing!"


you bet

You bet they'll re-run such a successful show next season.

(idiomatic) Expresses support, agreement, certainty or emphasis.

“Hey, thanks for all your hard work yesterday.” / “You bet!”

“Could you give me a hand?” / “You bet!”

“Course it's mighty hard to tell till we've put out a few traps,” said the former, “but it looks to me like we've struck it lucky.”
“You bet,” Dobbs agreed. “I don't believe this here valley ever was trapped. We ain't come across no sign of any old camp—not so much as a blazed tree[…]”

1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:

(idiomatic, informal) Certainly, you're welcome; a reply to thank you or to a request.


puh

He was sporting his inky Italian moustaches glistering with Vaseline and perfume. Puh! How uncommentable!

2010, John P. Anderson, Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah, volume 4, page 82:


puh

An onomatopoeia: the sound of rapid exhalation.
Used to express emotion beyond compare to the point of which there are no words to describe the setting.

pooh (expression of dismissal or contempt‚ used when encountering an unpleasant smell)

phew (used to show relief, fatigue, surprise, or disgust)


puh

Puh vad jobbigt det är att bära ved
Phew, carrying firewood is hard work

Puh, vi hann fram i tid!


buzz off

Don’t let anyone say, “Buzz off!”

(idiomatic, colloquial, dismissal) go away.


nonny

Then sigh not so,
But let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

A meaningless word used in refrains, especially in old English ballads and glees.


tough luck

Your car broke down? Well, tough luck, you're due at work in 15 minutes. Better run.

(idiomatic) Bad luck (often an unsympathetic retort to someone suffering misfortune)


eina

Borrowed from Afrikaans eina, from the Khoekhoe people of the Kalahari Desert: é + ná.

Eina! I hit my thumb with the hammer!

(South Africa) Ouch! (an exclamation of pain)


no thank you

“Do you want all the strawberries we didn't eat?” “No thank you, I'm full.”

‘Have some tea?’ ‘No, thank you.’

1970, Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1979, →ISBN, page 357:

Fallon: David Blaine is eating nails right now. This is insane. This is...this is all real. This is crazy.
Blaine: You want some?
Fallon: No thank you, I don't want to eat...how? How?

2022 September 15, 9:20 from the start, in David Blaine Freaks Jimmy Out with a Terrifying Card and Nail Trick The Tonight Show (Comedy), spoken by David Blaine and Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, archived from the original on 2022-09-16:

A polite way of saying no in response to an offer.

唔使喇

in this context, the word "thank you" is not necessary, and it's not impolite


kiss my ass

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-kiss my ass.wav

Then for a Jeſt, for this time let it paſs, / And he that takes it ill, may kiſs my Aſs.

1616, Beaumont, Francis, The Scornful Lady: A Comedy:

(sometimes vulgar, idiomatic) Go away!; an expression of disdain or dismissal.

When he asked me to help him fix the bike, I told him to kiss my ass.

As I told to go meet at an invitation, you can kiss my ass.

Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this.

1978, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Animal House (motion picture), spoken by Bluto (John Belushi), Universal Pictures:

(sometimes considered, vulgar, idiomatic) Rejection or refusal to perform a requested action.


ну

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nu.

ну і ідзі сабе́ дале́й

well, so (used in encouragements or discouragements, or as a filled pause)

ну і дзянёк!

with і (i) or ж (ž): what ...!, what a...!, that's quite a...! (expresses disbelief)


ну

→ Hebrew: נוּ

→ Ingrian: nu

→ Latvian: nu

→ Lithuanian: nu

→ Yiddish: נו (nu)

Ну!

Well! (indicating surprise and a little disbelief)

Ну что ж? ― Nu što ž? ― So what now?

Ну так что́ же? ― Nu tak štó že? ― So what is it?

Да ну́!

Да ну?!

— Мне немного надо! — говорил он, — курочка есть? — ну, супцу из курочки сварите! Может быть, солонинка есть — солонинки кусочек приготовьте! Жарковца какого-нибудь… вот я и сыт!

1880, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин, “Племяннушка”, in Господа Головлёвы; English translation from I. P. Foote, transl., The Golovlevs, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986:

‘It’s little enough I need!’ he said. ‘Is there chicken? – well, make a little chicken broth! Perhaps there’s salt beef? – then do a bit of salt beef! And a roast of some sort – for me that will suffice!’

— Mne nemnogo nado! — govoril on, — kuročka jestʹ? — nu, supcu iz kuročki svarite! Možet bytʹ, soloninka jestʹ — soloninki kusoček prigotovʹte! Žarkovca kakovo-nibudʹ… vot ja i syt!


as if

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-as if.wav

From Middle English as ȝif, alls iff (“as if”), from Old English *ealswā ġif, attested only as swā ġif (“as if”), equivalent to as + if. Compare Dutch alsof (“as if”), Low German as of (“as if”), German als ob (“as if”).

—I'm going to clean your whole house. —As if!

“Better wait, hadn't you, Laura,” said Aunt Wess’, “and see. Maybe he'll come up and speak to us.” “Oh, as if!” contradicted Laura.

1903, Frank Norris, The Pit: A Story of Chicago, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, →OL, page 10:

Ooo! Get off of me! Uh, AS IF!

1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Cher (Alicia Silverstone):

(idiomatic) Refers to something that the speaker deems highly unlikely.

ска́жешь то́же

skážešʹ tóže


bem

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ben, from Latin bene (“well”).

inh+

Bem, eu vou ficar aqui.

well (used to introduce a new sentence, idea or line of thought)


бухта

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бу́хта • (búhta)

By surface analysis, бу́хам (búham, “to swell, to inflate (of dough); to bang”) + -та (-ta).
Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary additionally compares the sense “fritters” with Romanian bucată (“piece of bread”).


tó

Tó. É que eu acabei fazendo compras antes de vir pra cá. Eu vi que os ovos estavam superbaratos no mercado!

2007, Broccoli, 6:57 from the start, in Galaxy Angel, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Mirufiu Sakuraba (Daniella Piquet), São Paulo: Álamo, via Animax Brasil:

(informal) Abbreviation of toma (“take this”).

(informal) Abbreviation of tome (“take this”).


ㄌㄧㄡˋ ㄌㄧㄡˋ ㄌㄧㄡˋ

/li̯oʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ li̯oʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ li̯oʊ̯⁵¹/

/li̯oʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ li̯oʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ li̯oʊ̯⁵¹/

“6” stands for 溜 (liù, “smooth”) or 牛 (niú, “awesome”).

(Mandarin, Internet slang) Wow! Awesome! Great skills! This is so cool! (in game chats)


メーメー

ja-pos

メーメー • (mēmē)


ガオー

roar (sound a big animal or a monster makes)


ウキー

(onomatopoeia) ook (the sound a monkey makes)


тпру

whoa (when commanding a horse to stop or imitative thereof)


ma 's e do thoil e

mas e do thoil e
mas e do thoil e#Scottish_Gaelic


キーキー

キーキー • (kīkī)

(onomatopoeia) ook ook (the sound a monkey makes)


またね

bye, see you later (casual, lit.: "again, okay?")


Platz

From Middle High German plaz, from Old French place, from Latin platēa, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”). Cognate with English place.
Displaced native Old High German zīh (“place, court/village square, market”).

down! (command to lie down, especially for a dog)


コケコッコー

コケコッコー or こけこっこー • (kokekokkō)

コケコッコー (canonical)
こけこっこー (canonical)
kokekokkō (romanization)

(onomatopoeia) cock-a-doodle-doo (the sound a rooster makes)


bolla

From the same source as bolli (“drinking cup, bowl”), similar to Danish bolle.

an exclamation that children shout on bolludagur while spanking their parents to demand buns


さようなら

さようなら • (sayōnara) ^(←さやうなら (sayaunara)?)

sayōnara (romanization)
sayaunara (romanization)
さやうなら (hiragana historical)

Shortening of earlier 左様ならば (sayō naraba), itself a compound of 左様 (sayō, “like that, that way”) + ならば (naraba, “if”, now somewhat archaic, often replaced by なら (nara)). Literally “if that's the way it is”.
First cited to roughly 1742 as a conjunction (literally, “if it's like that, then...”). The interjection usage is cited to 1788, and then the noun sense is cited to roughly 1915.

com

now somewhat archaic, often replaced by <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">なら</i> (nara)

(formal) a final expression of departure; farewell, so long, adieu, goodbye

1921, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, アグニの神 [God of Aguni]:

Please come again tomorrow morning to this house. I see no way for me to escape the old woman apart from this plan. Goodbye.

ドウカ明日ノ朝モウ一度、オ婆サンノ所ヘ來テ下サイ。コノ計略ノ外ニハオ婆サンノ手カラ、逃ゲ出スミチハアリマセン。サヤウナラ。

Dōka ashita no asa mō ichido, obāsan no tokoro e kite kudasai. Kono keiryaku no hoka ni wa obāsan no te kara, nigedasu michi wa arimasen. Sayōnara.

(dated, formal) a non-final expression of departure: goodbye, au revoir


goodness me

(idiomatic, UK, Ireland) An expression of mild surprise.


salama

From the Arabic root س ل م (s l m), most likely سَلَامَة (salāma).


vaara

Borrowed from Late Old Swedish fahra, fara (compare Swedish fara), itself from Middle Low German vāre, from Proto-Germanic *fērō (“danger”). Cognate with Dutch gevaar, German Gefahr.


whatever floats your boat

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/532095
The earliest evidence hints that figurative use of the phrase 'whatever floats your boat' originated among pleasure boaters in the USA. The (paywalled) Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, Florida, p. 142) of 23 Sep 1979 offers a lengthy article about outfitting pleasure sailboats that ends with this advice (emphasis added):
You are the ultimate interior decorator for your boat. Remember there are no hard and fast rules, just go with whatever floats your boat.

(idiomatic) Do whatever makes you happy or stimulates you.


whatever creams your twinkie

Related to the Twinkie brand of cream-filled snack cake.

1998: “Gidget”, alt.support.marriage (Google group): Why NOT Get Married?, the 3ʳᵈ day of November at 9 o’clock a.m.
I guess the thrill is in the conflict, not in the need to know. Hey, whatever creams your twinkie, Binky.

2001: “Armin Scheans”, rec.motorcycles (Google group): Buell M2 Cyclone vs Honda VTR 1000, the 23ʳᵈ day of November at 2:53pm
Of course, you can’t ride a stat sheet and there are more to bikes than just numbers. Get whatever creams your twinkie.

2003: “johnny dupe”, alt.music.pink-floyd (Google group): AMPF Official drunk thresad NPFR, the 25ᵗʰ day of January at 9:10am
I’m whacked on antidepressants and Diet Coke, and i’m willing to bet my buzz is better.
But whatever creams your twinkie.

(idiomatic, informal) Do what you will, whatever makes you happy.


круто

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кру́то • (krúto)

Я сдал экза́мен на «пять»! — Кру́то!
Ja sdal ekzámen na «pjatʹ»! — Krúto!
I got an A on the exam! — Awesome!


круто

кру́то • (krúto)


miau

(Internet slang) Alternative spelling of meow


miau

onomatopoeic

Imitative


jajaja

1877, José María de Pereda, Tipos trashumantes http://books.google.com/books?vid=0ufA4x4TyEYKvtjr0n&id=ZHHE6kiSqdYC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=jajaja
—Jajajá.... ¡qué buen humor tiene este señor de Zorrilla!...

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

1987, Carlos Fuentes, Cristóbal Nonato http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9681625048&id=dWDSVHP_EBMC&pg=PA463&lpg=PA463&vq=jajaja&dq=jajaja&sig=Oi4SNaaYNfmwObT3ZXImkciVcPo
Pensar que empezaron conmigo, ustedes empezaron conmigo, sobrinito, tú y tus naquitos mugrosos y tu mujercita embarazada bien fornicada por mi Guía Luminoso, empezaron por burlarse de mí, naranjas, peras y higos, cómo no, jajaja, vidrios de aumento, Shogun Limusín, te acuerdas?

—Jajaja —reia Dios con soberbia— ¿Tú a mí no me vas a perdonar?

2006, Juan Carlos Nevado Sendarrubias, José vs. Ratzinger Z ¡HEIL DIOS! http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1411669207&id=0ETBseXtTYgC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=jajaja&sig=wtW09xzRp341KvJTWRA7HfVmU74


wd

(Internet slang) Abbreviation of well done.


alack

From Middle English alacke, alagge, probably from ah + lack.

On a day, alack the day: / Loue, whoſe Month is euery May, / Spied a bloſſome paſſing faire, / Playing in the wanton ayre:

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 133:

Alack, would that Edward listened more to me and less to the queen’s kith! These Woodvilles!

1843, Edward Bulwer[-]Lytton, The Last of the Barons, London; New York, N.Y.: George Routledge and Sons […], →OCLC:


word up

tlb

(US, originally African-American Vernacular)

What's up?; what's happening?; what's the word?


bullseye

From bull's + eye. May have come from the practice of English archers shooting an arrow through the eye socket of a bull's skull as a test of skill. The connection to philately comes from the shape of the key plate or vignette.

A cry when someone hits the bullseye of a target.

—Did John steal the petty cash? —Bullseye.

(by extension) A response to a totally accurate statement.

oikein

response when someone makes an accurate statement


neh

È proprio un piatto gustoso, neh?

Fa' il bravo, neh!

(dialectal, chiefly Piedmont, Lombardy, Switzerland) isn't it?; don't you?; wouldn't she?, ...


raca

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥακά (rhaká), from Aramaic רֵיקָא (rēqā, “worthless person”) or Classical Syriac ܪܝܩܐ (rēqā, “vanity”).

der

4th C. CE, Saint Jerome, Vulgate, Matthew 5:22

And whoever says to his brother, idiot!, shall be liable to answer to the council.

Quī autem dīxerit frātrī suō, raca!, reus erit conciliō.

397 CE, Tyrannius Rufinus (translator), Instituta Monachorum, question 145, original author: Basil of Caesarea, in Patrologia Latina (volume 103), Jacques-Paul Migne (editor), Paris 1851, column 538

What is raca? The answer: A provincial, that is, a pagan word used for example as a mild insult, which is usually said to servants and to those who rely on you.

Quid est raca? Respōnsum: Prōvinciālis, id est, gentīlis illīus sermō est velut convīciī leviōris, quod domesticīs et hīs quōrum fīdūciam quis gerit, dīcī solet.


wha

Wha? Speak up, I can't hear you!

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


soz

Rhotacism of sorry; sorry + -z. Documented since at least 1987.

I'd like to apologise, unreservedly, to pigs everywhere, but especially those on my farm […] So Hermes pig collars all round to my herd and soz soz soz.

1996 September 1, “Dear Annie: Ready to wear”, in Independent on Sunday:

I'm soz about what happened.

1999, “Love Comes to Royston Vasey”, in The League of Gentlemen, season 1, episode 5, spoken by Henry Portrait and Ally Welles:

Soz Mike, I thought you were showing me a fool proof way of going xna

2001, Jocyber, “Morning'”, in alt.fan.scarecrow (Usenet):

Soz for bringing it up again, but it is good to have a healthy attitude towards this..!!!!

2002, *Patrick-Blue*, “Soz I Missed This (look) ??”, in alt.sports.soccer.everton (Usenet):

U2 says soz for online snafu [title]

2005 February 7, John Oates, “U2 says soz for online snafu”, in The Register:

Does it auto update when the disc is inserted or will i^([sic]) get the option to ignore the update?¶ Or do i^([sic]) just DL pal games to be on the safe side?¶ Soz for all the questions but wanna make sure I get it right

2007, >{daZza}<, “Wii info”, in alt.warez.uk (Usenet):

(slang, chiefly UK or Internet) Synonym of sorry


bloody hell

tlb

(rare in the United States, common in, Commonwealth, informal)

Bloody hell! My team lost again!

Bloody hell! Where did you come from, scaring me like that!

He's not really eating those, is he? Bloody hell! That's disgusting!

Bloody hell, there was little wonder he was distracted. In the past few hours, he had endured more shocks than he had in centuries.

2006, Alexandra Ivy, When Darkness Comes, page 32:

Bloody hell! To hell with Milner. No, Oom Paul said after each new concession, no, no further. Send the troops, Alfred Milner said.

2007, Ingrid Winterbach, translated by Elsa Silke, To Hell with Cronjé, page 55:

“Bloody hell,” she moaned. “Bloody hell, bloody hell.” Though her hands were trembling, she managed to reload the crossbow just as Sue had told her; then she began to shakily run towards where she thought the sound had come from.

2007, L. H. Maynard, M. P. N. Sims, Demon Eyes, page 145:

An expression of dismay, disgust, anger, surprise etc.


handbags

From handbag + -s; in sense “fight”, clipping of handbags at dawn, handbags at ten paces (1980s).

Person A: Not another cheeseburger, Marcia?

Person B: What's it to you?

Person A: Well, you're fat enough as it is.

Person B: You can talk!

Person C: Ooh - handbags ladies!

(British, slang) Said jocularly in response to a particularly derogatory, bitchy or catty dialogue; calm down; cool it.


hocus pocus

Hocus pocus pilatus pas, ik wou dat het eindelijk weer zomer was.

Hocus-pocus, I wish it was finally summer again.


tac

Dans les trois jours, voilà le tac, tac, tac / Des mitraillettes qui reviennent à l’attaque

1968, Serge Gainsbourg (lyrics and music), “Bonnie and Clyde”, in Initials B.B., performed by Serge Gainsbourg ft. Brigitte Bardot:

Within three days, there's the rat-a-tat-tat / Of machine guns back on the attack

Onomatopoeia (but not an interjection) which is used to express the accomplishment of what we are doing. Tac, c'est fait.


zam

Then suddenly — Zam! Zowie! Smash! The Post sends back an article which I was positive it would buy, and which, in fact, it had ordered. One manuscript after another is flung back into my face […]

1945, The Author and Journalist, volumes 30-31, page 9:

You never know when some enemy of the Free World might worm his or her way into your confidence and then — ZAM! Wipe you out.

2007, J. W. Brodie-Innes, The Devil's Mistress, page 21:


wara

hands off (used to firmly express a demand that one stop interfering with the development of events concerning what is being discussed)


alr

(Internet slang, text messaging) Clipping of alright.


му

коро́ва мычи́т ― koróva myčít ― a cow moos


yop

(colloquial, informal) Yes; affirmative.


sund

Regional variety of standard Dutch zonde.


супер

head

су́пер • (súper)


супер

су́пер • (súper)


osteria

From oste + -eria, from Old French oste (“innkeeper, host”).

(euphemistic) expletive, often used to replace the mildly blasphemous expletive ostia (“Host, Communion wafer”); blimey!


ewa

Borrowed from the conversation-starting Moroccan Arabic اوا.

(slang) an informal greeting, similar to yo


hoh

"Hoh, hoh!" cried Ab'm, pointing a big fat finger at her, that might have been cleaner; "hear her now. An' she said her shoes warn't never goin' to wear out. Hoh, hoh!"

1900, Margaret Sidney, The Adventures of Joel Pepper:


man on

(soccer, basketball) An outcry warning a teammate of an approaching opponent, usually from the rear.


謝謝

/ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹ ɕi̯ɛ¹/

/ɕiɛ²¹³ ɕiɛ²¹³/

/t͡sɛː²² t͡sɛː²²/

/t͡sʰi̯a⁵⁵ t͡sʰi̯a⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰia⁵³⁻⁵⁵ t͡sʰia⁵³/

/ɕie⁴⁵ ɕie⁴⁵⁻⁵³/

/sia²⁴²⁻⁵³ ⁽ˢ⁻⁾liɑ²⁴²/

/ʑia²² ʑia⁴⁴/

/ziɑ²² ziɑ³³/

/ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹ ɕi̯ɛ¹/

/ɕiɛ²¹³ ɕiɛ²¹³/

/t͡sɛː²² t͡sɛː²²/

/t͡sʰi̯a⁵⁵ t͡sʰi̯a⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰia⁵³⁻⁵⁵ t͡sʰia⁵³/

/ɕie⁴⁵ ɕie⁴⁵⁻⁵³/

/sia²⁴²⁻⁵³ ⁽ˢ⁻⁾liɑ²⁴²/

/ʑia²² ʑia⁴⁴/

/ziɑ²² ziɑ³³/

You've been a great help this time, thank you!

這次你幫了大忙，謝謝！

这次你帮了大忙，谢谢！

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


謝謝

ja-pos

謝謝(シエシエ) or 謝謝(シェイシェイ) • (shieshie or sheishei)

謝謝 (canonical)
謝謝 (canonical)
shieshie (romanization)
sheishei (romanization)

From modern Mandarin 謝謝／谢谢 (xièxie, “thank you”).

2020 January 27, 沢井メグ, “【新型肺炎】日本の企業が中国へマスク100万個を送付と話題！ 迅速な支援に中国ネットで感動の嵐 / 送り主はイトーヨーカドー！ 詳細を広報に聞いた”, in ロケットニュース24:

「謝謝日本！」
「日本だってマスクは必要なのに。本当にありがとう！」
 […]

“Shieshie Nihon!”
“Nihon datte masuku wa hitsuyō na no ni. Hontō ni arigatō!”
 […]

"Xiexie Japan!"
"Even though Japan also needs masks, yet [they sent us masks]. Thank you so much!"
 […]

(informal, rare) thanks, thank you (in a Chinese context)


Klappe

From the verb klappen (“to flap, flip, fold”) and from Middle Low German klappe, kleppe and with influence of French clapet in technical meanings near “valve”.

(derogatory) Ellipsis of Klappe zu; halt die Klappe or similar phrases: shut your mouth


cú

From Proto-Vietic *kuːʔ, of imitative origin. Compare Proto-Tai *ɡawꟲ (“owl”) (whence Thai เค้า (káo), Lao ເຄົ້າ (khao)), Chinese 鵂 (OC *qʰ(r)u), 鴞 (OC *[ɢ]ʷ(r)aw) (B-S).


time out

(idiomatic) To call for a suspension of activity or conversation.

(live action roleplaying games) Used to announce the end of time in and the beginning of time out.


sugar honey ice tea

Derived from the words chosen so that their initials, in sequential order, spell out shit.


Quatsch

Zu Hause habe ich eine Katze, Quatsch, zwei Katzen.

used to acknowledge that the speaker has just misspoken and to introduce the correction


Schnauze

16th century, from Middle Low German snûte, whence also the later doublet Schnute (“pouting mouth”). Further from Old Saxon *snūt, from Proto-West Germanic *snūt (“snout”). Cognate with Dutch snuit, whence probably English snout.
The forms Schnauße and somewhat later Schnauze are artificial adaptations to High German consonantism, probably under the influence of schnäuzen (“to blow one’s nose”), from Proto-West Germanic *snūtijan. An original High German cognate, albeit with a different stem formation, is at hand in Central Franconian Schnüss, Hunsrik Schniss, Luxembourgish Schnëss.


fol-de-rol

Fol-de-rol and fiddle dee dee and fiddley faddley foddle. All the wishes in the world are poppycock and twaddle.

Nonsense word traditional to English ballads and madrigals.


saka

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *saká (“and, also”).


pozor

Inherited from Old Czech pozor, from Proto-Slavic *pozorъ. Equivalent to po- + zřít.


fáilte

/ˈfˠɑːlʲtʲə/

/ˈfˠɑːlʲtʲə/

/ˈfˠɑːl̠ʲtʲə/

/ˈfˠaːl̠ʲtʲə/

From Middle Irish fáilte, from Old Irish fáilte, from Proto-Celtic *wāletiyā, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.


herro

(offensive) Pronunciation spelling of hello.


哎呀

→ English: aiya, ai yah, aiyah

→ Macanese: aia

→ Thai: ไอ้หยา (âi-yǎa)

/ˀaɪ̯⁵⁵ jä⁵⁵/

/ˀaɪ̯⁵⁵ jä³⁵/

/ɐi̯⁵⁵ jaː³³/

/ˀaɪ̯⁵⁵ jä⁵⁵/

/ˀaɪ̯⁵⁵ jä³⁵/

/ɐi̯⁵⁵ jaː³³/

Ugh/Ouch, there are too many mosquitoes!

哎呀，蚊子太多了！

哎呀，你這是怎麼了？

哎呀，你这是怎么了？

aiya; alas; ah; oh; ugh; ouch (expressing surprise, annoyance, pain, frustration, sarcasm, etc.)


jeah

(slang, nonstandard) variant of yeah; yes.


capperi

a mild expression of surprise (such as gosh!)


molo

hello, a greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence, also a welcome, into my village, home, or business!


amain

From Middle English amēn, from Old English [Term?], from Latin āmēn. Cognate with Scots amain.


fàilte

Fàilte a Mhoire


dè

Clipping of ciod è (older caidhe, caide, goidé) from Old Irish cote (“what is the nature of?, of what kind is?”), synchronically analyzable as ciod + e, compare Irish caidé.

der

Thàinig iad feasgar, dè?

They came in the afternoon, didn't they?

Used to form tag questions in informal speech.


brekekekex

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βρεκεκεκέξ (brekekekéx), coined by Aristophanes in the comedy The Frogs.

lbor

Brekekekex! co-ax! co-ax! O happy, happy frogs!
How sweet ye sing! would God that I
Upon the sweet bubbling pool might lie,
And sun myself to-day
With you! No curtained bride, I ween,
Nor pillowed babe, nor cushioned queen,
Nor tiny fay on emerald green,
Nor silken lady gray,
Lies on a softer couch. O Heaven!

1871, John Stuart Blackie, The Musical Frogs:

Iris:
He warbled a plaintive rondo —
Of brekekekex koax —
Chorus:
Koax!
Iris:
The other frogs thought it splendid,
Most splendid —
Chorus:
Most splendid!
Iris:
Applauding him when he ended
With brekekekex koax —
Chorus:

1898, Harry Greenbank, Adrian Ross (lyrics), “A Frog he lived in a Pond”, in A Greek Slave

(nonce word) Nonsense word supposedly imitative of frogs.


jinkies

Jinkies! Tweety's Back!

“Jinkies, Holly,” I said calmly. “Hold your horses.”

2004, Jerrilyn Farmer, Mumbo Gumbo: A Madeline Bean Novel, page 104:

"Jinkies, that's the man from the dart game!" Velma exclaimed.


pouce

Inherited from Old French pouce, pouz, peuce, from Latin pollicem.


howay

Howay the lads

Howay man ye slowin' wa doon like!

(Geordie) A general cry of encouragement.


uf

onom

Natural expression.


uf

ugh, oof (expresses disgust or discomfort)


naiset

[ˈnɑ̝i̯s̠e̞t̪]

ladies (used to mark toilets and similar installations to be for women only)


you know

First attested as a filled pause in the early 18th century, as a euphemism in the mid-19th century.

I don’t usually get nervous in games and, you know, taking free kicks and penalties but that’s the first time I’ve been that nervous in, in a game, where I have to, I’m in a situation where I’m, you know […]

2002 December 15, “Interview with David Beckham”, in Breakfast with Frost, spoken by David Beckham, via BBC:

Once, I remember, I was watching the twins on a trampoline, you know, and they looked so beautiful, and I was happy because they were happy, you know.

2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), spoken by Jesse (Ethan Hawke):

(informal) Expression signifying a pause or hesitation.

يَعْنِي

expression signifying a pause or hesitation

A: I heard you want to... do something with me.
B: Do what?
A: You know... umm...
B: Sex?
A: Yeah.

(informal) Expression used to imply meaning, rather than say it, such as when a person is embarrassed.

But I guess that's life, you know?

I just wasn't into it, you know?

This was already a fresh departure for me. I was not used to get things that way, you know.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198:

"I heard Winnie the Pooh was like garlic to a vampire to the Chinese commies," he said. "Popular arts and music, poetry, dancing and singing is a threat to those in power, and I'm really trying to bring back that rock-and-roll rebellious spirit into music, you know."

2024 January 29 [2024 January 26], Tim Lee, Ray Chung, quoting Brendan Kavanagh, “London YouTuber hid in van, received death threats after piano face-off”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2024-01-29:

rhetorical question
rhetorical question#English

(informal) Used as a rhetorical question to confirm agreement, knowing or understanding at the end of a statement.

you see

confirming attention, understanding, and/or agreement

You know, he's actually pretty nice.

Tali: You know, there's always a few who go on their Pilgrimages and never return. I always assumed something bad happened to them, but maybe they just wanted a different life.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Engineering, SSV Normandy:

2016, Voice of America, Learning English (public domain), archived from the original on 2017-09-25:

You know, Pete, I am new to D.C. The city is big. — Yeah. But you learn a little more every day.

(informal) Used to introduce information.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see you, know.


bye-bye

Bye bye! Let's play again some time!

1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:


schaak

From Middle Dutch schaec, from Old French escac or directly from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic شَاه (šāh), from Classical Persian شاه (šāh, “king”).

check; said when one can strike the opponent's king in chess, but the opponent can still make moves to prevent the king from being taken.


derp

BASEketball
South Park
Succubus_(South_Park)

Probably from dur, British informal exclamation for “stupid” or from duh, an exclamation indicating faltering speech and assumed stupidity, glottalized for emphasis. Popularized by BASEketball (1998) and "Succubus", a 1999 episode of South Park. See also twerp possibly related to Welsh twp meaning fool.

I put chips in my soup instead of crackers. Derp.

Now that I think of it, i'm surprised that you didn't make fun of his first name as well- 'How could you believe in a guy who has a girly first name?' derp- you are a fool.

1997 February 25, Pete Treichler, “Re: Patrick Incompentence Redux”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.pit-penguins (Usenet), message-ID <Yn4ObEO00iV6A1SFx_@andrew.cmu.edu>#1/1>:

(slang) Draws attention to an act of foolishness or stupidity.

Rob Schneider derp dee derp. Derp dee derpity derpy derp. Until one day, a derp a derp a derp a derp.

2002 November 27, Trey Parker, “The Biggest Douche in the Universe” (14:28), in South Park, season 6, episode 15:

Me: Hi, remember me from SSG? Can I ask you about herping the derp?
R1: Oh, hai Tom. Sure, that would be the derp that was herping blah blah blah...

2011 January 10, Tom Allen, “Re: Expression of a woman's sexuality”, in soc.sexuality.general (Usenet), message-ID <add2880c-51f2-48ba-bcb1-4f9bff60dd58@l24g2000vby.googlegroups.com>:

(slang) A placeholder for unimportant details, blah blah blah.


ila

From Proto-Inuit *ila, from Proto-Eskimo *ila. Cognate with Aleut ilaanux̂.


miehet

gentlemen (used to mark toilets and similar installations to be for men only)


fire in the hole

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A warning of an imminent explosion in a confined space, especially a grenade or blasting charge.

Before screaming “Fire in the hole!” and detonating a cache of confiscated fireworks on a residential street two years ago, Los Angeles police Det. Damien Levesque repeatedly walked away from critical discussions about the safety of the operation.

2023 July 14, Brittney Mejia, Libor Jany, Richard Winton, “LAPD refused to ID officers behind a huge fireworks explosion. Now we have their names”, in Los Angeles Times:

(loosely, by extension, humorous) A warning of any imminent explosive detonation.

(slang) A generalized warning that something is about to happen.


yee

Yéè! Ó dùn mí!

ouch; An expression in sympathy at another's pain.


kanker

From Middle Dutch canker, from Latin cancer.

(potentially offensive, vulgar, chiefly Netherlands) An expression of anger, annoyance, etc. damn, fuck


heita

I can hear the conversation: "Heita, bra. Let's go. We don't need bullets."

2008, Ben Trovato, Ben Trovato's Art of Survival, page 51:

‘Het ou Pellie!’ I suppose that is the most typical of the popular greetings that belong essentially to Cape Town; but the origin would be hard to trace. One expert thinks it falls into the Malay-Portuguese group.

1964, w:Lawrence G. Green, Old Men Say, page 61:

‘Heita’ is a popular greeting used by the mapantsula. It simply means ‘hello’. Of course, one can go further by saying ‘Heita hoezet majita?’ (Hello, how are you, friends?).

1986, T. Thoka, English usage in Southern Africa, University of South Africa, page 20:

(South Africa, colloquial) Greeting, hello; hi


wye aye

Wye aye man!

(Geordie, Wearside, Durham, Northumberland) A positive yes, of course.


blackfriars

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) look out; beware


genug

northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial

From Middle High German genuoc, from Old High German ginuog, from Proto-West Germanic *ganōg, from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz.
Cognate with Dutch genoeg, Low German noog, English enough, West Frisian genôch, Danish nok, Swedish nog. Further Indo-European cognates: Latin nancīscor (“to get, to obtain”), Slovene nesti (“to carry”), Albanian kënaq (“to satisfy”).

Genug! Hör auf mit diesem Unsinn!


hoo

From Middle English hoo, ho. More at ho.

Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo!

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, 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):

With, hoo! such bugs and goblins in my life

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, 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):

(obsolete) hurrah; an exclamation of triumphant joy

Hoo yee!

(Geordie) Used to attract the attention of others.


we aye

We aye man!


hát

Lexicalization of há (an older variant of ha (“if”)) + -t (locative suffix).

af

an older variant of <i class="Latn mention" lang="hu">ha</i> (“if”)

Hát, ez van.

Nem ott van. - Hát?

Ez nem jó. - Hát a másik?

This isn't good. - And the other one? / What about the other one?

Nincs itt? - Nincs hát!

of course, surely (reacting to a statement to suggest confidence in the truth of it)


novità

From earlier novitade, novitate, from Latin novitātem (“newness, novelty”).


hoppa

Likely an extended form of hop, from the verb hoppen.

Exclamation of encouragement or excitement, often said during the coordination or completion of a physical activity: let's go! alley-oop! there we go! hey presto!


Filip

Ancient Greek origin. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1581 as Philip.

The letter "F" in the Swedish spelling alphabet; not to be confused with "P" (due to the alternative spelling Philip)


glug

Uncorking, first pour, and re-corking of a bottle of bourbon whiskey. During the pour, glugging can be heard.
Onomatopoeic, imitating the sound of pouring or swallowing liquid.

listen/core

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The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured out of a jug, bottle, etc., or when such an amount is swallowed by a person.


stap my vitals

Corruption of stop + my + vitals. Compare stap me.

You have married a woman beautiful in her person, charming in her airs, prudent in her conduct, constant in her inclinations, and of a nice morality - stap my vitals!

1845, William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Comic Writers:

The true Preux des Dames, (regretfully) went out with the full periwig, stap my vitals!

1854, Tom Taylor, Charles Reade, Masks and Faces:

"Stap my vitals, Bill" (this was to Shakespeare), "there's a great wave coming and you're on the top of it".

"Stap my vitals, Tuppy, old corpse," I said, concerned, "you're looking pretty blue round the rims."

Stap my vitals Neal cried, and I knew he was quoting Otway.

(obsolete) An exclamation of surprise or anger, sometimes used as an oath.


Noël

Inherited from Middle French Noël, from Old French Noel, Naël, inherited from Vulgar Latin *notālis, from Latin nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birthday of the Lord”) with dissimilation of the first -a- to -o-. Doublet of natal.

inh

Le fou propose au sage des questions que celui-ci ne peut résoudre ; et tandis que la populace crie Noël ! — que les palefrois hennissent, que les limiers aboient, que les cors fanfarent, […]

1895, Aloysius Bertrand, Gaspard de la nuit p. 20

The fool asks the wise questions that he can't answer. Meanwhile, the people shout huzzah!, and the parade horses neigh, and the bloodhounds bark, and the horns sound, […]

(obsolete) huzzah, hurrah (cry of celebration in portrayals of medieval people)


hana

"there!" (said when handing an item to someone or to indicate that something is finished or ready)


whoop-de-doo

'Whoop-de-doo!', yelled a surprised Conrad as the large engine ignited in front of them. That's the biggest thrill of my life.'

It felt like Daddy might come waltzing into the room any minute, look around at all the food and people, and say, "Whoop-de-doo! What a party!"

2001, Pamela Walker, Pray Hard, →ISBN, page 29:

Exclamation indicating (now often sarcastic) excitement or enthusiasm.


netjes

Je hebt je examens gehaald? Netjes!


pretty please

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Please? Pretty please? Pretty please with sugar on top?!

Cynthia: Please?
Centurion: No, sorry. I can't do that.
Cynthia: Pretty please?
Centurion: What does that mean?
Cynthia: Just... the same as "please", except I'm pretty.
Centurion: Still no.

2014 October 27, Sam Leifer et al., “The Phallus”, in Plebs::

(childish or humorous) An emphatic form of please.

bliefies

an emphatic interjection to make commands more polite


wach

From Proto-Germanic *wai. Cognates include Old English wā and Old Saxon wah.


daabi

No (used to show disagreement or negation)


apologies

/əˈpɒləd͡ʒiːz/

/əˈpɑləd͡ʒiːz/


no duh

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-no duh.wav

It says here not to drive with the sun shade covering the windshield of your car. No duh!

A long pause was followed by Hannah saying, “Well, no duh!”
“What?”
“That sign. Did you read that sign?”
“No, what did it say?”
“It said ‘State Prison Next Exit: Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers.’ That′s why I said, no duh! Like they have to tell people not to pick up hitchhikers.”
“That was a strange sign,” I agreed.

2005, Robin Jones Gunn, Gardenias For Breakfast, page 99:

“I could maybe buy that one, for some who has advanced up the scale of faith. However, I have trouble believing it would be sellable to the general population.”
“That′s a big ‘no duh.’ Now, I hope you don′t mind me keeping your feet to the fire. Let′s get back to your idea that maybe there are multiple paths to Heaven. And by the way, I hope you know you′re making me dizzy.”

2008, Donald James Parker, All the Stillness of the Wind, page 127:

Ultimately, humans aren′t wholly monogamous either. (Can we hear a “No duh,” from the bleacher seats?)

2010, Joselin Linder, Elena Donovan Mauer, Have Sex Like You Just Met - No Matter How Long You've Been Together, page xvii:

(chiefly US, colloquial, sarcastic) An expression or exclamation that something is exceedingly obvious or apparent, or that one would have to be extremely foolish not to realize something immediately.


z.l.

Yitzhak Rabin (z"l) was a warrior turned peace-maker.

(Hebrew) Of blessed memory, may he/she/they rest in peace; used after a reference to one or more people who died.


ծնունդդ շնորհավոր

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ծնունդդ շնորհավոր • (cnundd šnorhavor)

hy-interj

ծնունդդ շնորհավոր • (cnundd šnorhavor)

LL-Q8785 (hye)-Yevgenya Shamshyan (Vahagn Petrosyan)-ծնունդդ շնորհավոր.wav


поздравляю с днём рождения

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поздравля́ю с днём рожде́ния

поздравля́ю с днём рожде́ния • (pozdravljáju s dnjom roždénija)

поздравля́ю с днём рожде́ния (canonical)
pozdravljáju s dnjom roždénija (romanization)

[pəzdrɐˈvlʲæjʊ ˈz‿dʲnʲɵm rɐʐˈdʲenʲɪjə]

en-поздравляю_с_днём_рождения-ru-intj-10aaZsS7


xiexie

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 謝謝／谢谢 (xièxie, “thank you”).


negativo

Learned borrowing from Latin negātīvus. By surface analysis, negar + -tivo.


с днём рождения

с днём рожде́ния

с днём рожде́ния • (s dnjom roždénija)

с днём рожде́ния (canonical)
s dnjom roždénija (romanization)

[ˈz‿dʲnʲɵm rɐʐˈdʲenʲɪjə]

[ˈz‿dʲnʲɵm rɐʐˈdʲenʲjə]

LL-Q7737 (rus)-Tatiana Kerbush-с днём рождения.wav

Ellipsis of поздравля́ю с днём рожде́ния (pozdravljáju s dnjom roždénija).

ellipsis

поздравля́ю с днём рожде́ния


hostia

Early borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin hostia (“host, consecrated bread ← victim, sacrifice”).

bor

(vulgar, Spain) jeez (expression of surprise)


alee

Was isch jetz für Zit? Scho drü? Alee, pressier, pressier.

What time is it? Already three? Come on, hurry, hurry.


weh

oh weh ! oh weh ! " — Sweetest mother, you have the illness ; oh weh ! oh weh ! It was so

1864, Flora Dawson, Princes, Public Men, and Pretty Women: Episodes in Real Life:

"Oh, weh! oh, weh!" The Child-Who-Was-Tired pushed and pulled them apart, muffled them into their coats, and drove them out of the house.

1910, Katherine Mansfield, The Child-Who_Was-Tired:

Perhaps it's in Lausanne, at the shore of Lake Leman, and in the widow's arms that Wolf wrote Oh weh! Perhaps she whispered it into his ear, when they first slept together, or when he parted from her. Perhaps it was her oh weh! he could never forget.

1992, Ewa Kuryluk, Century 21, →ISBN, page 307:

I tell you that it's true compassion, baby, oh weh.

"Kill one village, But leave another. Kill one village, But leave another. On the lake: weh weh weh weh weh.

2012, Regina F. Bendix, Galit Hasan-Rokem, A Companion to Folklore, →ISBN, page 90:

At last one night the Master of Sorcerers in secret places raised his voice and cried: “Weh-h-h-h! Weh-h-h-h-h-h!”

2017, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Zuñi Folk Tales:


weh

From Middle High German wē, from Old High German wē, from Proto-West Germanic *wai.
Compare Latin vae, Dutch wee, English woe, Danish ve, Swedish ve, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai).

Freunde sind gut, aber wehe dem, der ihrer bedarf in der Not.

Friends are good, but woe to anyone who needs them in times of need.

„O weh, du mein schönes Paradies!“ weinte Adam und weinte Eva.

1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:

“Oh woe, you beautiful Paradise of mine!” Adam wept and Eve wept.


weh

Compare nge / ngek / nye / nyek. See also Hokkien 諧／谐 (ôe, “to persuade; to advise; to harmonize”) as in 諧煞／谐煞 (ôe-soah, “to mediate; to conciliate; to reconcile”).

ncog

Weh, di nga?

Expression of disbelief or skepticism: oh really


Ìosa

From Old Irish Íssu, from Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (yĕšuaʿ).

der

Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (yĕšuaʿ)

(possibly offensive) Used to express excitement, frustration or exasperation.


I never did

185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
‘Why, good gracious, Amy, what ever brought you here?’
‘I wanted to see you, Fanny dear; and as I am going out all day to-morrow, and knew you might be engaged all day to-day, I thought—’
‘But the idea, Amy, of you coming behind! I never did!’

"Well, I never did!" she exclaimed in a scandalized whisper. "Trying to set fire to the 'ouse — oh, fie".

(idiomatic, dated) An exclamation of great surprise.


allegria

Allegria uomini! È un giorno di festa!

Cheer up people! This is a day of celebration!

an encouragement to be cheerful. cheer up!


nee way

Nee way man!


well, I never

(idiomatic) An exclamation of great surprise.


tarnation

/tɑɹˈneɪʃən/

From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn.

"Tarnation! You all right?" "Hell, no, I ain't all right!"

2002, T. T. Flynn, Prodigal of Death: A Western Quintet, →ISBN, page 41:

“They contain the precise description of the place where the nuggets are hidden.” “Tarnation! Is that true?"

2008, Marlies Bugmann, Karl May, Winnetou III, page 338:

“Tarnation,” Jasper murmured, his attention turning to the thing in the Aether bubble.

2013, Kady Cross, The Girl With The Iron Touch, →ISBN:

(archaic) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.


óptimo

Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of ótimo. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.


عادي

ajp-interjection

عادي • (ʕādi)


오

오, 좋다.

오, 기발한 생각이다.

wow, whoa; used for a pleasant surprise, especially regarding something the listener has done or said.


mismo

Borrowed from Spanish mismo, from Old Spanish mesmo, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus.


no comment

Cette année il a essayé de se fondre parmi les acteurs, actrices pour les prendre en photos mais certains s'y sont opposés avec un certain dédain revendiquant comme Guillaume Canet" son droit à l'image". No comment...

“Cannes : JM Barr écoeuré par l'attitude de Guillaume canet”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), 2009 June 5 (last accessed)

(idiomatic, ironic) no comment (a refusal to say the obvious impolite retort)


sääli

Borrowed from Russian жаль (žalʹ). First mention in a dictionary was in the 1770s.

Sääli, että auto hajosi.


hadaway

Hadaway wi ye!

(Mackem and Geordie) Begone, be off, go away.


καλωσήρθατε

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καλωσήρθατε • (kalosírthate)

καλώς ήρθατε
καλώς ήρθατε#Greek

Alternative form of καλώς ήρθατε (kalós írthate) (welcome)


moikka

[ˈmo̞i̯kːɑ̝]


哈囉

/xä⁵⁵ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/haː⁵⁵ lɔː²¹⁻³⁵/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² lo⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² lo⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ lo⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ lɤ⁴⁴/

/xä⁵⁵ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/haː⁵⁵ lɔː²¹⁻³⁵/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² lo⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻²² lo⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ lo⁴⁴/

/ha⁴⁴⁻³³ lɤ⁴⁴/


ouf

"Ouf, Ouf," grunted the pig, and swallowed the pancake in one gulp, and as the pancake couldn't get any farther, well, you see we can't go on with this story any farther, either.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 67:


sérieux

Borrowed from Late Latin sēriōsus, from Classical Latin sērius (“grave, earnest, serious”).


rivo

Rivo, says the drunkard. Call in ribs , call in tallow

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

Then ther's my chub , my epicure , Quadratus , that rubbes his guttes , clappes his paunch , and cries Rivo , intertayning my eares perpetually with a most strong discourse of the praise of bottle ale and red herrings

1601 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], What You Will, London: […] G[eorge] Eld, for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page):


huy

Huy! Gising ka na!

(colloquial, informal) Alternative form of hoy: expression used to call the attention of somebody: hey!

hoy

Huy, hindi ako ang kumuha ng pera mo!

(colloquial, informal) Alternative form of hoy: expression used as a warning or as a protest: hey!


東西

From Middle Chinese 東西 (MC tuwng sej). The sai of 西 changes to zai due to rendaku (連濁).

Synonym of 東西東西 (“your attention please; hear ye”)


thanx

X is pronounced /ks/ in English. thanks + -x.

What can I say? THANX It was wild!

1982 December 25, “Jack In Berserkely (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 14:

(slang, intentional) Alternative spelling of thanks


hoo man

Hoo man, slow doon like!


yirra

From Afrikaans jere, a minced oath or alteration of Heere or Here (“Lord, God”, interjection), derived from Heer (“Lord”).

We’re going to have a hell of a drought. Yirra it’s tough being a farmer!

1987, Marguerite Poland, Train to Doringbult, page 11:

(South Africa, colloquial, possibly offensive) An exclamation used to express shock or exasperation.


tente

Tente, baba, tente.

(childish) rock-a-bye, hush, hushaby (used in quieting a baby to sleep)


hű

oh! (the expression of surprise or mild scare, or that of relief after realizing there was no real danger)


hí

head

hí • (咥, 唏, 嘻)

vi-int

hí • (咥, 唏, 嘻)


agad

O here a' comes—Ah my Hector of Troy, vvelcome my Bully, my Back; agad my heart has gone a pit pat for thee.

1693, [William] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act II, page 11:


bravissimo

'He has spoken, Sir,' replied Lowe, whose angry passions were roused by the insults of Dangerfield, and who had, for the moment, lost his customary caution.
'Ha!' cried Dangerfield, with a sort of gasp, and a violent smirk, the joyousness of which was, however, counteracted by a lurid scowl and a wonderful livid glare in his wild eyes; 'ha! he has? Bravo, Sir, bravissimo!' and he smirked wider and wider, and beat his uninjured hand upon the table, like a man applauding the denouement of a play.

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:


bread-and-butter

Reflecting that bread and butter are archetypally basic foodstuffs (daily necessities) in the places where the English language developed; compare daily bread, put bread on the table, earn one's bread, bread and water (as prisoners' diet or poverty diet), and know which side one's bread is buttered on.

(archaic) A general saying used to ward off bad luck

(archaic) A saying specifically used to ward off bad luck when separating hands to walk either side of a tree


רות

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רוּת • (rut)

(radio telecommunications, especially military) roger


יום הולדת שמח

he-interj

יום הולדת שמח

יוֹם הֻלֶּדֶת שָׂמֵחַ

יום הולדת שמח / יוֹם הֻלֶּדֶת שָׂמֵחַ • (yom huledet sameakh)

יוֹם הֻלֶּדֶת שָׂמֵחַ (canonical)
yom huledet sameakh (romanization)

LL-Q9288 (heb)-YaronSh-יום הולדת שמח.wav


איכה

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אֵיכָה • ('eikhá)

אֵיכָה (canonical)
'eikhá (romanization)

אֵיכָה אֶשָּׂא לְבַדִּי טָרְחֲכֶם וּמַשַּׂאֲכֶם וְרִיבְכֶם׃

Tanach, [[s:he:T0501#א_יב|1:12]], with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

Eikhá esá l'vadí ṭor'ḥakhém umasa'akhém v-riv'khem!

אֵיכָה הָיְתָה לְזוֹנָה קִרְיָה נֶאֱמָנָה מְלֵאֲתִי מִשְׁפָּט צֶדֶק יָלִין בָּהּ וְעַתָּה מְרַצְּחִים׃

Tanach, Isaiah [[s:he:T1001#א_כא|1:21]], with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

How is the faithful city become a harlot! She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

Eikhá haytá l-zoná qiryá ne'emaná m'le'atí mishpáṭ tzédek yalín bah v-'atá m'ratzḥim!

אֵיכָה יָשְׁבָה בָדָד הָעִיר רַבָּתִי עָם הָיְתָה כְּאַלְמָנָה רַּבָּתִי בַגּוֹיִם שָׂרָתִי בַּמְּדִינוֹת הָיְתָה לָמַס׃

Tanach, Lamentations [[s:he:T3201#א_א|1:1]], with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

O how has the city that was once so populous remained lonely! She has become like a widow! She that was great among the nations, a princess among the provinces, has become tributary.

Eikhá yashvá vadád ha'ír rabáti 'am! Haytá k-almanáh! Rabáti va-goyím, saráti va-mdinót, haytá la-mas!


come on

→ Portuguese: camone

I'll show you where the auditorium is. Come on!

Come on, George! You can win!

Synonym of let's go, a cheer or expression of support, encouragement, &c.

let's go

Come on! You can't possibly expect me to believe that.

Aw, come on! Get on with it!

Come on, we don't want to miss the train!

An expression of frustration, exasperation, or impatience; hurry up.

Come on! I'm not afraid of you.

BOX: […] Hark ye, sir—can you fight?
COX: No, sir.
BOX: No? Then come on—

1847, John Maddison Morton, Box and Cox:

An expression of defiance or as a challenge; approach; come at me.


って

Classical Japanese
Daijirin
Daijisen
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
ja:松村明

Contracted from とて (tote), itself a compound of quotative particle と (to) and conjunctive particle て (te).
Another etymology lists って as a shift from てふ (tefu), a contraction of と言う (to iu, “said that...”) in its Classical Japanese form.
* /to ifu/ → /toifu/ → /tefu/ → /tte/
When following a word ending in ん (n), manifests without gemination as just て (te).
First cited to the late 1800s.

黙れ。ってなんでお前がここに！

Used to draw attention to something objectionable in a discussion.


kurac

(U) kurac!

Koji kurac?!


מה

וַיִּירָא וַיֹּאמַר מַה־נּוֹרָא הַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה אֵין זֶה כִּי אִם־בֵּית אֱלֹהִים וְזֶה שַׁעַר הַשָּׁמָיִם׃

Tanach, [[s:he:T0128#כח_יז|28:17]], with translation of the New International Version:

He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”

מָה־אָהַבְתִּי תוֹרָתֶךָ כָּל־הַיּוֹם הִיא שִׂיחָתִי׃

Tanach, Psalms [[s:he:T26b9#קיט_צז|119:97]], with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

O how love I Thy law! It is my meditation all the day.

Response that confirms that the speaker is paying attention (usually said unhappily).


calice

Borrowed from Latin calix, calicem, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix). Compare also the inherited Old French chalice.

(Quebec, slang, euphemistic) Alternative form of câlisse


rock on

The circus is coming to town? Rock on, dude!

(informal) An expression of celebration.


so what

I lost my red shoes. – So what? Get a new pair.

I also did a long-wear test, as y'do and after scoffing my face with some food (read: I am feral when it comes to a midday snack, so what), the striking colour that I was wearing, named 'Jet', had stayed put. Pigment, check ✅.

2023 May 12, Lia Mappoura, “I tried Glossier's brand new G Suit lip crèmes so you don't have to – you're welcome”, in Cosmopolitan:

(informal, rhetorical question, impolite) Used to indicate indifference, often as a reply to an unimportant or irrelevant statement.


paskanmarjat

[ˈpɑ̝s̠kɑ̝mˌmɑ̝rjɑ̝t̪]


naa

From Middle High German nein, from Old High German nein, from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, nothing”). Cognates include German nein, Dutch neen, nee, Luxembourgish neen, nee, Icelandic neinn.


dankeschön

Alternative form of danke schön; thank you very much


incoming

(military) A warning that something is coming towards the addressee, especially enemy artillery fire.


hijo de puta

→ Tagalog: iho de puta

Inherited from Old Spanish fijo de puta, attested in the anonymous work Crónica de veinte reyes (by 1325), compare the similar but older fijo de la mala putaña (“son of a bad whore”), attested in Gonzalo de Berceo's Los Milagros de nuestra Señora (c. 1250).


come on down

Come on down! Breakfast is ready!

An invitation to someone in the upper part of a building to come downstairs.

An invitation to someone living to the north to come for a visit.

Veronica Johnson, come on down!

A catchphrase used on the television game show "The Price is Right", inviting a member of the audience to come to Contestant's Row to play the game.


get real

You want me to stay here with you in this dump? Get real!

(informal) Expresses disbelief, or urges someone to face reality.


mersi

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish մէրսի (mersi), from French merci.


lork

“Lork, Mrs Richards!” cried Miss Nipper, taking up her words with a jerk. “Don’t. See her dear Papa indeed! I should like to see her do it!”
“Won’t she then?” asked Polly.
“Lork, Mrs Richards, no, her Pa’s a deal too wrapped up in somebody else, and before there was a somebody else to be wrapped up in she never was a favourite, girls are thrown away in this house, Mrs Richards, I assure you.”

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:


chale

(Mexican Spanish, slang) Interjection that denotes surprise, sadness or disapproval.

(US, slang) "no" intensified (similar to "hell no" or "yeah right")


minchia

Borrowed from Sicilian minchia (“dick, cock”).


the hell with it

I can't understand these directions to building this doghouse because they're so poorly written. The hell with it!

“The hell with it,” the world’s richest man wrote on Twitter. “Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.”

2022 October 15, “‘The hell with it’: Elon Musk says SpaceX will fund Starlink internet in Ukraine”, in The Guardian:

Forget about it; a disgusted or frustrated dismissal of something.

чёрт с ним (čort s nim, literally “devil with it”)


ye gods

Seventeenth-century British variant of oh my God, probably intended to avoid blasphemy. Compare Danish I guder.

Ye Gods, what Havock does Ambition make
Among your Works!

1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:

Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the line of the equator; yea, ye gods! go down to the fiery pit itself, in order to keep out this frost?

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 2”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

(idiomatic, dated, euphemistic) Used to express surprise or incredulity.


papillon

From Old French papeillon (12th c.), byform of paveillon, whence the modern doublet pavillon (“pavilion”). Both from Latin pāpiliōnem. The form with recovered -p- may be semi-learned, but has also been explained as a native development due to onomatopoeia. Another possibility would be influence by a hypothetical Old French *parpeillon, from Vulgar Latin *parpiliōnem (cf. Occitan parpalhon). The swimming sense is a semantic loan from English.


inchaalaaxu

From Arabic إِن شَاء اَللّٰه (ʔin šāʔ allāh).

bor

إِن شَاء اَللّٰه

Arabic إِن شَاء اَللّٰه (ʔin šāʔ allāh)


Bisimilaay

From Arabic بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ (bismi llāhi).

بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ


Alihamudu lillaay

From Arabic الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰه (al-ḥamdu lillāh).

der

الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰه


alxamdulilaa

From Arabic اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ (al-ḥamdu li-llāhi, literally “praise [be] to God”).

bor

اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ

(Islam) alhamdulillah (praise be to God)


բարի գալուստ

head

բարի գալուստ • (bari galust)

hy-interj

բարի գալուստ • (bari galust)

[bɑɾí ɡɑlúst]

[pʰɑɾí kʰɑlúst]


compris

Inherited from Old French, from Latin comprēnsus, variant of comprehēnsus.


igualmente

“Mucho gusto.” “¡Igualmente!”


عجب

ابتدای کار سیمرغ ای عجب، جلوهگر بگذشت بر چین نیم شب، در میان چین فتاد از وی پری، لاجرم پر شور شد هر کشوری.

1177, Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār, منطق الطیر [The Conference of the Birds], volumes lines 733—737:

The beginning of [this] affair of the Simorgh, oh how wondrous! It passed in China in full splendor one midnight, and a feather fell from it in the middle of China. Consequently, each country became ardent [to see the feather].

ebtedâ-ye kâr-e simorğ ey 'ajab, jelow-gar be-gozašt bar čin nim-šab, dar miyân-e čin fatâd az vey par-i, lâ-jaram por-šur šod har kešvar-i.


witajcie

Second-person plural imperative of witać.

welcome, hello said to more than one person


heureusement

→ Ladino: orozamente

(informal) and a good job too! and a good thing too! well that's lucky! I'm glad to hear it! it's just as well! thank goodness!


plums

Mimics the sound of something falling heavily into water.


Åke

From Old Norse Áki, diminutive of Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᚢᛉ (*anuʀ, “ancestor”), from Proto-Germanic *anô (as in the first part of the name Olaf).
By folk etymology sometimes associated with Swedish åka (“ride”), as in Åke-Tor, an epithet of the thunder god Thor. Formerly an eastern Danish name (in what is now southern Sweden) restricted to the gentry. Cognate with Danish and Norwegian Aage, Åge.

The letter "Å" in the Swedish spelling alphabet

alpha

aa; international; spelling of the digraph


dirlididi

Used to indicate insignificance or lack of importance.


ay, chihuahua

Ay, chihuahua! I didn't hear you coming.

Ay, chihuahua! The computer crashed and I'm going to have to start all over again.

Expression of dismay, annoyance, or resignation.


mua

(Mainland China, neologism, slang, onomatopoeic) mwah


bumbaclot

(slang) Alternative spelling of bomboclaat


𐍉

Onomatopoeic. Translates Ancient Greek οὐὰ (ouà).


pray tell

From pray (“ask (politely)”) + tell (“explain”).

Pray tell us, how will they fare while you are away?

(archaic) Please explain (something the requester does not yet understand).

But how, pray tell, do you "notice" something that happens when you're asleep?

(idiomatic, usually sarcastic) Expressing incredulity, please explain (some claim or position the speaker doubts).


deuces

Nigga! You got until tonight to get your shit, deuces nigga!

(African-American Vernacular, slang) peace; goodbye (because of the associated gesture holding up two fingers)


hú

1845, Sándor Petőfi, János vitéz (John the Valiant), epic, part 20, translated by John Ridland

Not to mention the crows!… What a sight to be seen!

Hát még meg a varjúk!… hú, azok voltak ám!

wow! (the expression of surprise or mild scare)


híjole

Univerbation of hijo (“son”) + le (pronoun), an ellipsis of hijo de puta or similar expressions.

univerbation

Used to denote surprise, exasperation, or the state of being impressed.

(Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Nicaragua) Son of a!


begorrah

(Ireland) Alternative spelling of begorra


ái

LL-Q9199 (vie)-Jessica Nguyen (Pamputt)-ái.wav


begorra

A minced oath from alteration of by God.

But, begorra, whin they seen it was raly Bill Malowney himself that was in it, it was only who'd be foremost out agin, tumblin' backways, one over another, and his raverence roarin' an' cursin' them like mad for not waitin' for him.

January - June 1850, “Bill Malowney's Taste of Love and Glory”, in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, volume 35, page 698:

Begorra, an' 'twas th' foinest sight yez niver saw to' see th' refor-rumed naughty-twos mate their dear lovin' home-definder, Carrie Nation.

1902, University of Michigan, The Wolverine, volume 2, number 12, page 18:

But it's absolute balderdash, Bertie. I mean, listen to this: "Sure and begorra, I don't know what's after being the matter with you, Michael." I mean, what on earth is this "what's after being" stuff mean?
B.W. Wooster: My dear old Gussie, that is how people think Irish people talk.

1992 April 26, “Hot Off the Press”, in Jeeves and Wooster, season 3, episode 5, spoken by A. Fink-Nottle (Richard Garnett):

Sure and begorra, 'twas the second time I lost me balance and fell into yer drink.

2009, Patti B. Pruitt, Spring Break with Paddy O'Rourke, book II, page 28:

(dated, Ireland, now literary) Alternative form of by God


yes'm

yes + -'m, a contraction of ma'am (itself a contraction of madam).


cincin

From Chinese Pidgin English chin-chin (an expression of gratitude, salutation or congratulations), a reduplication of Shanghainese 請／请 (⁵chin, “please”), misinterpreted as onomatopoeic of two glasses clinking. Compare Portuguese tchim-tchim, tim-tim, Spanish chinchín, French tchin-tchin.


.jo

Compound of . (“symbol for inhalation”) + jo (“yes; acknowledgement”). Introduced in 2009 by the Swedish linguistics magazine Språktidningen as a suggestion for spelling the North Swedish dialectal interjection /ɕʉː↓/ using conventional means, based on a method from conversation analysis.

com+

inte sitter still
har sönder rutor glas men
.jo
man vänjer oss vid allt

2022, Merima Dizdarević, Långt från ögat långt från hjärtat (poem), →ISBN, page 80:

not sitting still
has broken windows glass but
yes
they get us used to everything

(Northern dialect, neologism spelling) yep, yup (affirmative answer)


de nada

1976, American review: the magazine of new writing: Issue 25, link
Mooch-ass grassy-ass! Ha ha, de nada, jefe

"I'm really grateful to you for being nice to her." "De nada," he answered with a small bow and a quick swipe to her behind as she passed.

1996, Ellen Feldmen, Rearview mirror, link:

She shook her head slowly. “De nada. You don't owe me anything, Rio.

2010, Lara Adrian, Lara Adrian's Midnight Breed 8-Book Bundle, link:


de nada

think nothing of it, you're welcome, don't mention it, no worries


de nada

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


de nada

think nothing of it, you're welcome, don't mention it, no worries (informal), my pleasure


crickets

Seraphina. You have more money, Betsy, than you will know how to spend; all your own. / Betsy. Oh, gracious! Won't I have as much dinner as I can eat every day! / Mrs. Green. Yes, my love, you can have everything you wish for. / Betsy. Oh, crickets!

1859, S[arah] Annie Frost, “Misfortune”, in Parlor Charades and Proverbs: Intended for the Parlor or Saloon, and Requiring No Expensive Apparatus of Scenery or Properties for Their Performance, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, page 39:

"Oh Crickets! I seen you at the The-ayter one Night," she said. "I was there with Ollie Pozozzle of Minneapolis. Me and him come out just behind you. […]"

1902, George Ade, “The Fable of the Long-range Lover, the Lollypaloozer, and the Line of Talk”, in The Girl Proposition. A Bunch of He and She Fables, New York, N.Y.: R. H. Russell, OCLC 776243245; republished Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Literature House, 1969, OCLC 695700303, page 9

In the early hours of the morning, Arabelia was deep in thought as she looked over several scrolls. She worried she would never find any word of the missing snow globe even with all the fairies helping her to read. Everyone was getting very tired. / "Oh crickets! I need some rest!" Aurora said. / "Go on ahead, Aurora. But before you take a nap, can you put this scroll back up on the shelf?" Arabelia asked. Aurora responded with a light snoring sound.

2014, Patricia Arnold, chapter 3, in Brooke and the Fairy Merry Christmas (The Magical Murphy Farm; 5), [s.l.]: Marquette Press:


wakey

“Wakey Brother Monster,” he said to Rose as he spread his replacement piece of toast.

2016, W S Markendale, Owen Pendragon: Guild of the Round Table:

'Come on now, wakey!' called Diane, who was already up and dashing round the room.

2021, Margaret Thornton, Cast the First Stone:

Used to encourage someone to wake up.; wakey wakey.


씨

아 추워 씨!


নমস্কার

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit नमस्कार (namaskāra).

lbor

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


לילה טוב

head

לַיְלָה טוֹב

לַיְלָה טוֹב • (láyla tov)

לַיְלָה טוֹב (canonical)
láyla tov (romanization)


агу

агу́ • (agú)

used to call a baby to attract its attention


อรุณสวัสดิ์

th-interj

อรุณสวัสดิ์ • (à-run-sà-wàt)


heuch

Expressing exhilaration or delight, particularly while dancing to a reel or jig.


yaala

1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal dialect called Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
Yalu—yes, that will do!

(please add an English translation of this quotation)


բարի լույս

head

բարի լույս • (bari luys)

hy-interj

բարի լույս • (bari luys)

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բարի օր

head

բարի օր • (bari ōr)

hy-interj

բարի օր • (bari ōr)

LL-Q8785 (hye)-Vahagn Petrosyan-բարի օր.wav


բարի գիշեր

head

բարի գիշեր • (bari gišer)

hy-interj

բարի գիշեր • (bari gišer)

/bɑˈɾi ɡiˈʃeɾ/

[bɑɾí ɡiʃéɾ]

[pʰɑɾí kʰiʃéɾ]


fae

PIE word
 *wáy
From Proto-Celtic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wáy.


get stuffed

Get stuffed! I don't want to talk to you again!

Eventually, she heard him say something in his deliberate, gruff voice: just two words:
“Get stuffed!”

1992, Émile Zola, translated by Douglas Parmée, Nana, published 1998, page 243:

“You could wear them at fancy dress parties,” I suggested.
“Get stuffed!” he growled.

2007, James Hosier, “Getting Stuffed”, in John Patrick, editor, Dreamboys: A New Collection of Erotic Tales, page 130:

“And what, pray tell, is that? Money? Well, you can get stuffed!” he said sitting down in the chair.

2010, Jeff Wright, Sage, Dead Gorgeous, page 593:

(UK, Ireland, colloquial, dismissal, euphemistic) Used to tell somebody to go away or to leave one alone.


հա

come! come now! well! now then! courage!


բարի երեկո

[pʰɑɾí eɾeɡó]


สวัสดี

th:คณะรัฐมนตรีไทย คณะที่ 10

th:พระยาอุปกิตศิลปสาร (นิ่ม กาญจนาชีวะ)

From Sanskrit स्वस्ति (svasti, “welfare, well-being; blessing; prosperity; success; etc”); probably via Old Khmer svasti, svāsti (“interjection used as opening benediction: well-being! good fortune!”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᩈ᩠ᩅᩢᩔ᩠ᨯᩦ, Modern Khmer សួស្តី (suəsdəy). Compare Pali sotthi, from which Thai โสตถิ is derived.
The use of this term as a greeting or farewell was initiated at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, by Phraya Uppakit Sinlapasan (Nim Kanchanachiwa) in 2476 BE (1933/34 CE), and was officially ordained by the nationalist government of Field Marshall Plaek Phibunsongkhram on 22 January 2486 BE (1944 CE).

bor

used to express a greeting or farewell, answer a telephone, or attract attention


Gustav

From Old Swedish Gøtstaf, from Old Norse Gautr (“Geats”) + stafr (“staff”), or maybe from Slavic (compare Old Polish Gościsław, Goscław, Czech Hostislav), from Proto-Slavic *Gostislavъ, from *gostь (“guest”) + *slava (“glory”). First recorded as Swedish given name in 1521.

The letter "G" in the Swedish spelling alphabet


no can do

From Chinese Pidgin English, calquing Chinese 不能做 (bùnéng zuò, “cannot do”).

But I can't go for that, no no / No can do

1981, “I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)”, in Private Eyes, performed by Hall & Oates:

Tony Stark: If Thanos needs all six, why don't we just stick this one down a garbage disposal?
Doctor Strange: No can do.
Wong: We swore an oath to protect the Time Stone with our lives.

2018, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Avengers: Infinity War:


nop

(informal, rare) Alternative form of nope


بلی

Turkish: beli


ай

oh, ah; expression of wonder, surprise, fear, etc., positive and negative emotions included


boo hoo

"Boo hoo!" cried Lisa after she misplaced her saxophone.

So you broke it. Boo hoo! Get a grip, and clean up the mess.

(used ironically, spoken as an ordinary word) it is not worth crying about, an expression of contempt


(text messaging) An onomatopoeic representation of laughter; "hahaha".


hā

what! oh! hey! (expression of surprise or disapproval)


bugger off

Derived from bugger (idiomatic, obsolete, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “sodomite”, (idiomatic, vulgar, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “man”, especially in the colloquialism (idiomatic, dismissal, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) old bugger for “an old man”.

lb

(idiomatic, vulgar, UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, emphatic, colloquial, dismissal) Go away.

Bugger off! You are joking, aren't you?

(idiomatic, vulgar, UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, emphatic, colloquial) An expression of disagreement or disbelief.


atol

an expression of anger, surprise, excitement, etc.


cono

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cono m, from Latin cunnus m. Compare Portuguese cono m and cona f.


frig it

(idiomatic, vulgar) An expression of frustration similar to, but not as vulgar as fuck it.


basado

Mi sobrino dice "espacio" o "distancia" y estira los brazos cuando alguien le invade su espacio personal. Basado.

My nephew says "space" or "distance" and stretches his arms out when someone invades his personal space. Based.

(Internet slang) based (indicating emphatic approval of a statement or opinion)


fsck

At some point in your Linux career you should ask yourself:
"If there are 3.4 million successful, happy Mandrake users...what the fsck is wrong with me?"

2002, David D. Huff Jr., “Re: Mandrake 8.2 Musings”, in alt.os.linux.mandrake (Usenet):

What the fsck are you on?

2002, Lev Lafayette, “Re: "We are all Africans under the Skin"”, in alt.politics.nationalism.white (Usenet):

2003, Agelmar, Re: SSH problem, alt.roundtable, http://groups.google.com/group/alt.roundtable/msg/789b5801baee1417?dmode=source
At least I know what the fsck is going on with Slack...

(computing, Internet slang, text messaging, vulgar, euphemistic) Fuck.