hip hip hooray

Recorded as far back as 1803. The word hip was in use then as a meaningless syllable to get someone's attention. Hooray (or hurrah) goes back to 1686, and also had no specific meaning, used instead to get a person's attention.
A folk etymology for this interjection suggests it comes from the anti-Semitic 1819 German Hep-Hep riots, however many examples of "Hip Hip" exist in English prior to 1819, for example:
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1813, Edmond Temple, The Life of Pill Garlick, London, page 243:
The first toast “Success to Pill Garlick lick and his saucy crew,” was drank with nine times nine, hip! hip! hip! and a hoorra! The tumult was excessive.

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The Life of Pill Garlick

An exclamation of congratulations or celebration, especially in response to a call for "three cheers for" the person. Often the person calling for the cheers will yell "Hip! Hip!", the crowd replying "Hooray!"


good for someone

You got married? Good for you!

The president doesn’t dodge “what if” questions. Good for him!

An exclamation of encouragement or congratulation to a person.

hyvä juttu

an exclamation of encouragement or congratulation

He has a diploma from Harvard? Good for him: he's still not qualified for this job.

Sarcastically belittling a person for an unimportant achievement.


ju

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic


ju

Hai, ju! Aya awauta apisun wiu. Ume eu. Aya awauta apisun wiu, ju. Hoona! Iseju, wi.

"Well, dear! Let's find ourselves a lover," she said. "Let's look for a lover for ourselves, my dear." "Agreed!" [said] her younger sister.

Pitsu neke, ju! uma pakai paiseju ipitsi. Pitsu neke, ju.

"Your turn now, dearie," the woman said to her younger sister. "Your turn, my dear."

Munyakawaka wi, kamwo putukawiu, naatsa kamwi eu whun. Hoona! Hai, ju! Aya waku wiu, ju! Hoona! uma pakai. Aya waku wi! Tuma ulepiu!

It began to be light, the sun showed itself, it was just here on the horizon. So! [The women said to one another:] "Hey there, my dear! Let's go to the riverside, dear!" "Yes, let's do!" came the reply. "Let's go to the river, indeed!" They began to make fresh manioc bread [to give their lover when they met him at the river's edge].

Ayama ju! Hoona! Iyapai otepo. Onupene otepoga akain! Eh! Ewetemewi, ju! Hokotawi tsiiiii!

"Let's go [visit the tree] once again, dear!" [the older sister said to the younger]. "All right!" [the younger sister agreed]. [They] went under [the tree]. They saw pequi fruit [on the ground] beneath [the tree]! "Ah! Let's taste it, dear!" [She] cut [it] open: tsiiiii! [sound of slicing open the fruit]

my dear(s), dearie (intimate yet very courteous term of address from one woman to another, esp. to a female sibling, close relative, or companion)


anteeksi

[ˈɑ̝n̪t̪e̞ːks̠i]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


d'accordo

Compare French d’accord, Spanish de acuerdo, Portuguese de acordo, Romanian de acord.

d'accordo ... però

d'accordo ... ma


до виђења

довиђења довиђења#Serbo-Croatian


come hither

(regional) Used to direct a horse to move to the left.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, hither.


isso

Tja... isso!

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(informal) Pronunciation spelling of ist so (“that's the way it is”).


isso

From Old Galician-Portuguese esso, from Latin ipsum, neuter of ipse (“itself”).

“Como era o nome daquele escritor?” “Saramago” “Isso!”

“What was the name of that writer?” “Saramago” “That’s right.”

Meu time ganhou? Isso!


sho

Perhaps borrowed from Serbo-Croatian ćao.


di nuovo

From Latin dē (“from”) + novō (“new”), possibly a restructured inherited form of Classical Latin dēnuō (“again, anew”), itself a reduced form of a supposed and unattested Old Latin *dē novōd. Related to Medieval Latin dē novō (“afresh, as a new thing, out of nowhere”). Compare Old Spanish de nuevo.


iksho

Inherited from Chickasaw iksho and Choctaw iksho.


permesso

said to ask for permission; may I?; may I come in?; knock knock


incredibile

wow (An indication of excitement or surprise)


goddam

“[…] This sand,” he said vaguely; then he said it again, viciously, “this sand. This goddam sand. Its like a goddam fuckin desert.”

1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 742:

‘No, Paul, not now and not in this goddam car!’

2021, Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun, Faber & Faber Limited, page 273:

(uncommon) Alternative spelling of goddamn


make way

(nautical) an instruction to get out of the way of someone else, usually because they are carrying something and need a clear pathway. Compare with gangway.


safi

der

Arabic صَافِي (ṣāfī)

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


la madre que te parió

Literally, “the mother who bore you”; an insult said out of anger.


ещё бы

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ещё бы • (ješčó by)

[(j)ɪˈɕːɵ‿bɨ]

Ты хо́чешь пойти́ с на́ми? — Ещё бы!
Ty xóčešʹ pojtí s námi? — Ješčó by!
Do you want to come with us? — Of course!

Я сейча́с пойду́ куплю́ дорогу́ю шу́бу. — Ещё бы!
Ja sejčás pojdú kupljú dorogúju šúbu. — Ješčó by!
I am going to buy an expensive fur coat. — I'll say!


לא

From Proto-Semitic *lā. Cognate with Arabic لا.


ありがとうございます

ja-pos

ありがとうございます • (arigatō gozaimasu) ^(←ありがたうございます (arigatau gozaimasu)?)

arigatō gozaimasu (romanization)
arigatau gozaimasu (romanization)
ありがたうございます (hiragana historical)

Phrase consisting of ありがとう (arigatō, “thank you”) + ございます (gozaimasu, “to be, it is”, formal). Literal meaning closer to “it is welcome”, but semantically and contextually used to mean “thank you”.

compound

教えてくれてありがとうございます。

いつもご利用ありがとうございます。

Thank you for always using our services.


uffda

Uff da! (UF dah): Norwegian expression used to indicate dismay or concern. Roughly equivalent to "Good grief!"

2004, C. L. G. Martin, Uff Da!, Tricycle Press, →ISBN, page 2:


久しぶり

久しぶり (canonical)
hisashiburi (romanization)

[çi̥sa̠ɕibɯ̟ɾʲi]

From 久しい (hisashii, “long”, (of time)) + 振り (-buri, “first time after”).

suffix

2002 January 17, Yukiru Sugisaki, “STAGE(ステージ)２(に) Vol.(ボリューム)10(じゅう)”, in [D](ディー)・[N](エヌ)・[ANGEL](エンジェル)・ [D.N.Angel], volume 6 (fiction), Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, →ISBN, page 33:

なじみヅラしてんじゃね——よ クラッド

なじみヅラしてんじゃね——よ クラッド


abrakadabra

abracadabra (said by someone doing magic or magical trick)


abrakadabra

[ˈɑ̝brɑ̝kɑ̝ˌdɑ̝brɑ̝]

abracadabra (used by performing magician to indicate the moment of performing a magical trick or illusion)


abrakadabra

NB - Pronunciation of Norwegian Bokmål «abrakadabra».ogg

From Late Latin abracadabra, a word used in magical writings, of uncertain origin, possibly from Thracian. Perhaps related to Abraxas (a Gnostic deity), and with various Aramaic or Hebrew terms, such as עברא כדברא (avra kedavra, literally “what was said has come to pass”), עַבְדָא כְּדַברָא (avda kedavara, literally “what was said has been done”); ארבע-אחד-ארבע (arba-eḥad-arba, literally “four-one-four”).

abrakadabra! Styrt i støvet! Der kommer skyen tilbage af sig selv paa min kommando

1852, Henrik Wergeland, Samlede Skrifter II,5, page 340:

abracadabra! Steered in the dust! The cloud comes back by itself at my command

Abrakadabra! Der lå den forsvunne hjerterkongen

Abracadabra! There lay the missing King of Hearts

abracadabra (used to indicate that a magic trick or other illusion has been performed.)


abrakadabra

Learned borrowing from Latin abracadabra. First attested in 1560.

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Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “abrakadraba”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

(occult) abracadabra! (said by performing magician to indicate the moment of performing a magical trick or illusion)


خدا حافظ

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خدا حافظ • (xodâ hâfez)

[xʊ.d̪ɑ́ː hɑː.fɪ́z]

[xʊ.d̪ɑ́ː hɑː.fɪ́z]

[xʊ.d̪ɑ́ː ʔɑː.fɪ́z]

خداحافظ خداحافظ#Persian


خدا حافظ

ur-interj

ख़ुदा हाफ़िज़

خُدا حافِظ • (xudā hāfiz) (Hindi spelling ख़ुदा हाफ़िज़)

خُدا حافِظ (canonical)
xudā hāfiz (romanization)
ख़ुदा हाफ़िज़ (Hindi)

/xʊ.d̪ɑː ɦɑː.fɪz/

Borrowed from Classical Persian خُدَا حَافِظ (xudā hāfiz, “May the Lord be your protector”).

bor+

خُدَا حَافِظ


barka

Barka da safiya!


kuan

Compare Tagalog kuwan, Bikol Central kuwan, Kapampangan kayi.

Oy, kuan...
Hey, umm...

used in hesitant speech, or to express uncertainty; um, umm, uh


caramba

Borrowed from Spanish caramba, a euphemism for the real expletive carajo.

(non-vulgar) Exclamation of surprise or dismay.; golly!


caramba

gee, gosh, shucks, blimey, darn (an expression of shock, surprise or anger)


caramba

(euphemistic) gee, gosh, shucks, blimey, darn (an expression of shock, surprise or anger)


chao

Borrowed from French tchao, German tschau, Italian ciao, Spanish chau (but only in the sense of "goodbye").


chao

Borrowed from Italian ciao (“hello, goodbye”). Doublet of esclavo.

bor+

(Latin America, some parts of Spain) bye, goodbye


chu

From the Japanese ちゅっ (chu', onomatopoeia).

By the way, isn't it interesting that the Japanese hear the sound "chu" when someone kisses? In the US, we usually say, "smooch," "smack," "smerp," or even "swock." Now, everytime^([sic]) I kiss my husband, I'm listening to hear if it sounds like "chu."

1996 August 12, Kathleen Webb, “Re: Zoicite a guy!!!”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet):

>Eldrick Tobin - Kiss worthiness of sig pending.
<chu!>
Seems fine to me. ^_^

2000 August 4, Fish Eye no Miko [username], “Re: [POLL] Which anime characters could be Ohtori students?”, in alt.fan.utena (Usenet):

movie Akio: [shoots a kiss to himself] Chu! ^.~

2000 August 19, Verthandi, “Re: [META] Ohha! Gally desu!”, in alt.fan.utena (Usenet):

(anime and manga fandom slang) The sound of a kiss.


hani

From Ottoman Turkish قانی (kanı, “where [interrogative] or you know [interjection]”) or Ottoman Turkish هانی (hanı, “where [interrogative]”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (qanï), from Proto-Turkic *kanï (“where”), a derivation from the interrogative stem *ka-.
Cognate with Azerbaijani hanı (“where”), Old Turkic 𐰴𐰣𐰃 (qanï, “where”), Karakhanid قَنٖى (qanï̄, “where”).

inh

where 􂀿interrogative􂁀 or you know 􂀿interjection􂁀


puas

Ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas. Sense of 'satisfied in general' as a semantic loan from Indonesian puas

Puas tah katangkep! Bongan saha ngebut?

Thank goodness you got caught! Whose fault was it for speeding?

word to express anger or irritation; take that!


הא

הַתַּלְיָן! הֵא צַוָּאר – קוּם שְׁחָט!

1903, Hayim Nahman Bialik, On the Slaughter 8


הא

(colloquial) ha! (an exclamation of triumph or discovery.)


אמין

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אַמִין • (ʾāmēyn)

אַמִין (canonical)
ʾāmēyn (romanization)

From Biblical Hebrew אָמֵן (ʾāmēn), possibly via Koine Greek ᾱ̓μήν (āmḗn). Compare Arabic آمِين (ʔāmīn).


itshay

Unfortunately I typed the key sequence to put all my scrolls IN my BoH. I went through this too fast, didn't catch it, and because I didn't have any scrolls in my inventory, the game starts putting everything I own into the BoH. When it hits the wand of cancellation... BOOM! *itshay itshay itshay!!!* Say goodbye to 3 magic markers, gems galore, spellbooks, 15 potions of holy water, 15 scrolls of enchant stuff and identify, another 10 blank scrolls destined to be enchant armor. *WAH!*

1996, Greg Rogers, “Help! My Bag of Holding keeps exploding on me! *Damn*”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

Itshay, dude, I thought you were over her.

2003 August 25, Patrick Null, “(story)Eamdray Irlgay-1959 wrds-Inspired by Andrea”, in alt.fiction.original (Usenet):

Wake up Saturday morning, and look at a map. The gig's halfway down to Brighton. Itshay. But I've given my word, so I leave early, make the gig, they love me.

2005 March 1, Max Leggett, “Re: TURN $6.00 INTO $60,000...READ THIS TO FIND OUT HOW!!!”, in rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz (Usenet):

(euphemistic, vulgar, slang) Alternative form of shit


考背

/kʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ peɪ̯⁵¹/

/kʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ peɪ̯⁵¹/

The Mandarin pronunciation of these two characters approximates the sound of Hokkien 哭爸 (khàu-pē, literally “to mourn the death of one's father”). The phrase is also a crude way to curse someone (i.e. to hope that a person is placed in the position of having to mourn the loss of a parent).

bor

Rubbing her shoulders as she ran, she ran some distance before turning around, then faced toward Wang Hsiung and spat. "May your parents rot!" she cursed.

1965: Pai Hsien-yung, Taipei People, A Sea of Blood-red Azaleas

Yīmiàn pǎo tā yīmiàn róu zhe tā de bǎngzǐ, pǎo dào lǎo yuǎn tā cái huí guò tóu lái, cháo zhe Wáng Xióng tù le yī pào kǒu mò mà dào: “Kǎobèi!”

一面跑她一面揉著她的膀子，跑到老遠她才回過頭來，朝著王雄吐了一泡口沫罵道：「考背！」

一面跑她一面揉着她的膀子，跑到老远她才回过头来，朝着王雄吐了一泡口沫骂道：「考背！」

(Taiwanese Mandarin) May your parents rot!


эс

From a Mongolic source. Compare the Mongolian term above.

эс, барбаппын

эс, оннук буолбатах


your mother

In order to keep the teacher from knowing what we were doing, we just cleared our throats and that meant “your mother" (yo momma) .

1991, Evelyn Baker Dandy, Black Communications: Breaking Down the Barriers, page 87:


tēriņtš

hello (a general greeting one can say when meeting somebody)


olkoon

fine (expression of reluctant agreement)


வணக்கம்

ta-interj

வணக்கம் • (vaṇakkam)

Tamil Nadu:

From வணங்கு (vaṇaṅku, “to bend, to bow, to worship, to adore”), cognate with Malayalam വണക്കം (vaṇakkaṁ).


queep

In flight they often made a close flock calling, queep, queep, queep, queep, queep, . . .

1918, Joseph Grinnell, Harold Child Bryant, Tracy Irwin Storer, The game birds of California:

They followed her at a rapid tiny waddle, crying queep-queep-queep.

1929, Henry Williamson, The Pathway, Volume 4:

The sound a bird may make, similar to peep, chirp, cheep.

The sound a machine may make, similar to beep. See pocketa-queep.


мотор

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мото́р • (motór)


por eso

Por eso, debo comprar los boletos antes.


sook

Probably from suck. Compare sukey (attested 1838), Sucky (1844), Suke (1850); sook from 1906.

Mother actually turned her back on that sheep and began dabbling her hand in the milk, saying, “Sook, calfy, sook, calfy!” seductively while the calf gave her the evil eue and walked backward.

1919, Strickland Gillilan, A Sample Case of Humor, page 47:

Sook calf, sook calf, sook calfie,
Sook calf, sook calf! […]

1947, John Avery Lomax, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter, page 265, “You get outside the cowlot gate and start calling like this

(Newfoundland) A call for cattle or sheep.


lookit

Nonstandard reanalysis of look at (that).

Ah lookit deputy, with all due respect to you, if you come in here and act like an ass that's exactly the label that you'll gain

2010 May 20, Miriam Lord, quoting Dick Roche, “As asses roar it's business as usual in the chamber”, in The Irish Times:

Lookit! I'm old enough now, I'll wear what I want!

2010 September 14, Rosemary MacCabe, “MTV VMAs mark two: the young guns”, in The Irish Times, archived from the original on 2015-06-13:

Paddy said yesterday morning: "Lookit he didn't murder anybody. He is not a bad lad."

2014 March 24, Paul Williams, Fionnan Sheahan, Sam Griffin, “Mum tells gardai how drunk TD sent lewd message to schoolgirl”, in Irish Independent:

(colloquial, informal, Canada, US, Ireland) look, listen; see here, pay attention; the thing is, to be honest

He went right on cackling, "Lookit lookit lookit. Oh Jesus, lookit. Lookit lookit." The blast had shattered all the windows, and flames were shooting out of all of them.

2010, Anel Viz, Fairies in the Bottom of the Garden, page 18:

(colloquial, informal, Canada, US) behold!; look at that; look here or there; look!


겨

Abbreviation of Chungcheong and Jeolla Dialect 기어 (gieo). Used mainly by middle-aged and younger speakers of the Southern Chungcheong Dialect.


ô

Ô João, vem cá.

(informal) hey (used to draw someone’s attention)


splutter

I vvill ſhevv him that I vvas not bred at Oxford for nothing.—Splutter! I vvill ſhevv him my head is good for ſomething elſe beſides preaching.

1731 (date written), Scriblerus Secundus [pseudonym; Henry Fielding], “The Grub-Street Opera. […]”, in The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq; […], volume II, London: […] John Bell, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act III, scene xiii, page 240:

Here he vvas interrupted vvith, "Splutter and oons! you louſy tog, vvho do you call my maſter?[…]."

1748, [Tobias Smollett], “The Behaviour of Mr. Morgan— […]”, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume I, London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, pages 229–230:

(minced oath, obsolete) A minced oath expressing anger or wonder, usually attributed to Welsh people: 'sblood.


creepers

"Oh, creepers, Mom, that's part of getting to know the gang," Bain said. "Why they used to call Bill 'Cheese,' and he didn't let it bother him."

1961, Presbyterian Life, volume 14, page 43:

An expression of surprise, fear, or excitement


vaikka

[ˈʋɑ̝i̯kːɑ̝]

From Proto-Finnic *vaikka, possibly from *vai. Related to Ingrian vaikka, Karelian vaikka and Votic vaikkõ.

I guess, why not (used to reservedly accept a suggestion)


아

Imitative; compare English ah, Chinese 啊 (ā), Japanese ああ (ā).

아, 제가 실수했네요!


sovittu

Tarjoan sinulle tästä pyörästä satasen. -Sovittu!

I offer to you one hundred for this bicycle. -Agreed!


死罪

/sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/

/sei̯³⁵ t͡sɵy̯²²/

/si³¹ t͡sʰuɪ⁵³/

/si⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sue²²/

/si⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sue³³/

/si⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sue³³/

/si⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sue²²/

/si⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡sue³⁵/

/sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/

/sei̯³⁵ t͡sɵy̯²²/

/si³¹ t͡sʰuɪ⁵³/

/si⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sue²²/

/si⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sue³³/

/si⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sue³³/

/si⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sue²²/

/si⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡sue³⁵/

The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

臣誠愚，觸忌諱，死罪死罪！

臣诚愚，触忌讳，死罪死罪！

(archaic) may I die for committing such a grievous offense; forgive me for such a serious error


pahoittelut

[ˈpɑ̝ɦo̞i̯t̪̚ˌt̪e̞lut̪]


vælkomin

From Old Norse velkomin, from Proto-Germanic *wiljakumô (“a comer, a welcomed guest”).


păcat

Inherited from Latin peccātum (“sin”). Compare Aromanian picat.


góða

Góða Elin!

góða! - my dear! (address to a female friend)


eru

From earlier helu, probably from Fon ʁèèlú (“alas”).


skál

From Old Norse skál (“bowl”), from Proto-Germanic *skēlō.

cheers (after the meaning of skál as drinking glass)


skál

From Old Norse skál, from Proto-Germanic *skēlō.


gm

Alternative form: GM

(text messaging, Internet slang) Abbreviation of good morning.


sällan

From Old Swedish siäldan, säldan, siällan, from Old Norse sjaldan, Proto-Germanic *seldanē.


CQ

From French sécurité. It is often (incorrectly) believed to come from English seek you.

(radio slang) General call; calling all stations.


prut

Onomatopoeic, presumably a metonym from the sound made by a substance or something falling into it. First attested in early modern Dutch. The same in regional German Prütt.

Sound of a thick, almost-solid substance.

Ondanks zijn 27 jaar in de Verenigde Staten, hoor je nog steeds een licht Rotterdams accent bij Maarten Sierhuis. Als hij met een biertje op het zonnige terras naast zijn kantoor middenin San Francisco proost, zegt hij „Prut!”

2016 April 30, Wouter van Noort, “‘Ik heb twee banen, het enige wat ik doe is werken’”, in NRC Handelsblad:


voetsek

From Afrikaans voertsek, voortsek, short form(s) of voort sê ek (“go on I say”).

One house owner was upset when he realised the potential buyer was a black man and hurled insults at him. "He called me a kaffir and other insulting names," Arthur says with a laugh. "As we left he screamed at us to 'voetsek'. I thought it was funny enough to make a good song."

1996, Drum: A Magazine of Africa for Africa, page 17:

At that moment, I heard a cry from behind the tightening ring. “Hey! Voetsek you skelems!” The young ruffians parted to reveal the old Zulu man.

2013, Radmer Lenasch, Paper Samurai, page 149:

(South Africa) get lost! go away! An exclamation of dismissal or rejection.


bella scoperta

(ironic) what a surprise! Who would have guessed it?


مرسی

Borrowed from French merci (“thank you”).


Wahrschau

/ˈvaːɐ̯ˌʃaʊ̯/

Borrowed from Low German [Term?], from Middle Low German warschuwinge (“warning”); altered by folk etymology to a compound of wahr (“true”) + Schau (“look”).

der

(military) Attention! Look out! Watch out!


oj

an exclamation of disgust; ew, yuck, ugh


oj

oh, wow, gosh (expresses surprise, at something positive or negative)

ow (expresses physical or mental pain or compassion)


સલામ

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સલામ • (salām)

gu-interj

સલામ • (salām)

Borrowed from Classical Persian سلام (salām), from Arabic سَلَام (salām, “peace”).

bor+

નાતાલની સલામ ― nātālnī salām ― Christmas greetings ― A greeting used by Christians on Christmas Day.

An interjection used by Muslims and Christians to greet someone.

સલામ અલૈકુમ
સલામ અલૈકુમ#Gujarati

Clipping of સલામ અલૈકુમ (salām alaikum).


conchatumadre

(vulgar, offensive, Argentina, Peru, Chile) a strong insult


macché

of course not, not in the least, not on your life


synd

From Old Norse synd, from Proto-Germanic *sundijō; compare Old English synn (modern English sin).


tyfus

From New Latin typhus, from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever, stupor”).


اوت

From Old Anatolian Turkish اوت (evet), cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (yemet, “yes”).


دست شما درد نکنه

head

دست شما درد نکنه • (dast-e šomâ dard nakone)

desc

→ Azerbaijani: əllərin(iz) ağrımasın (calque)


пиздец

head

пизде́ц • (pizdéc)

пизде́ц (canonical)
pizdéc (romanization)

пизда́ (pizdá) + -ец (-ec), attested since ca. 1973. Compare Ukrainian пизде́ць (pyzdécʹ)

(vulgar) fucking hell!, holy shit!, what the fuck!


هلو

هلو • (halô)


نوش جان

نوشِ جان! • (nuš-e jân)

نوشِ جان! (canonical)
nuš-e jân (romanization)

[noː.ʃɪ d͡ʒɑːn]

[noː.ʃɪ d͡ʒɑːn]

[noː.ʃɪ d͡ʒɑːn]

to your good health!, cheers! (before any drink including non-alcoholic ones)


hubba hubba

/ˈhʌbə ˈhʌbə/

1947, My Favorite Brunette (film), around 23 min 20 sec
- Map? Yeah, she even gave me one to hold for her. Mysterious map, missing uncle... pretty corny. You know, there was something about the way she looked that made me suspicious, but the way she looked, I didn't care.
- But you kept the map?
- Oh, sure. Why not? She may not have it up here, but... hubba hubba.

[Judy] Grahn and [Marilyn] Monroe are allies, as they literally destroy and prevent smirking men from reducing women to hubba hubba hubba, some like it hot, "brainless cinderellas."

1979 April 28, Pat M. Kuras, “Uncommon Poetry”, in Gay Community News, page 12:

(emphatic, somewhat dated or ironic) An expression of appreciation or approval with a strong (positive) sexual connotation.


pah

Imitative of spitting out something disgusting.

Fie! fie! fie! pah! pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:

She was rarely suffered out of their sight; never went beyond the domains of the castle, unless well attended, or, rather, well watched; had continual lectures read to her about strict decorum and implicit obedience; and, as to the men—pah! she was taught to hold them at such distance and distrust that, unless properly authorized, she would not have cast a glance upon the handsomest cavalier in the world—no, not if he were even dying at her feet.

1819, Washington Irving, The Spectre Bridegroom:

Used to express distaste, disgust or outrage.


pah

Compare French bah. Possibly reinforced by paha.


firetruck

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


então

From Old Galician-Portuguese enton, from Vulgar Latin *in tunc, from Latin in + tunc (“then”). Displaced collateral form entonce. Compare Spanish entonces.

Então, o que aconteceu?

so (used after a pause for thought to introduce a new topic, question or story)

“As cadeiras são azuis ou verdes?” “Então, algumas são azuis, algumas verdes e algumas vermelhas.”

“Are the chairs blue or green?” “Well, some are blue, some green and some red.”

Used to introduce an answer which is more complex than expected.

Então, falou tudo!

exactly (signifies agreement or recognition).


juo

From a North Germanic language. Compare Norwegian jo and Swedish jo.


boozhoo

Cognate with Ojibwe/Ottawa boozhoo, Potawatomi bozho.


boozhoo

Cognate with Ottawa boozhoo, Potawatomi bozho.
Possibly from French bonjour or a clipping of Nanaboozhoo/Wanaboozhoo.


boozhoo

Cognate with Ojibwe boozhoo, Potawatomi bozho.


زرشک

Related to Northern Kurdish zerêşk, zirêşk, zirîşk, Gilaki [script needed] (zərəšk); Persian زریک (zerik), زرک (zerek), زرنگ (zarang), زراج (zarâj), زراک (zarâk); Yidgha [script needed] (azīto); Khotanese ysālva; all meaning "barberry" and ultimately deriving from the word for "yellow": compare Persian زر (zar, “gold”).


simples

See simple. As an interjection, “Simples!”, a humorous alteration of “Simple!”, was popularised as the broken-English catchphrase of a meerkat character in an advertising campaign for price comparison website comparethemarket.com.

There is no potential for takeover of the state of Pakistan by a rag-tag bunch of trumped-up nobodies with battered guns, and therefore no threat to the west. simples!

2009 April 14, jamie powell, “Re: Satellite dish acquires wrong 'bird'”, in uk.tech.digital-tv (Usenet):

So you claim. So, put whatcha got on the table, or STFU. ¶ Simples.

2010 March 25, Mike Jones, "Re: And Jeremiah The Prophet Said:", in alt.talk.creationism and other newsgroups, Usenet

Look, the vast majority of F1 viewers don't have HD TV. There for the numbers don't add up. When they do, you will have your HD TV. Simples.

2010 August 10, AC, “Re: HD coverage of the Nascar Race and Indy car races makes the F1 coverage look like Crap”, in rec.autos.sport.f1 (Usenet):

Controversial plans to replace appointed peers with elected senators, longed for by the Lib Dems, were seemingly given a new berth among the leftovers of Sam Cam's veg box. Simples!

2013 August 4, Matthew Bell, “It's a very good 17 days to bury bad news”, in The Independent, London:

Most things will go through on the nod. Simples. Everything will be fixed by Christmas.

2016 July 4, John Crace, “Up really is down on Mummy Leadsom's amazing journey”, in The Guardian, London:

Finally, the right hon. Gentleman talked about uncertainty: the uncertainty of not having the arrangements in place. If he wants to end uncertainty and if he wants to deal with the issues he raised in his response to my statement, then he should vote for a deal—simples.

2019 February 26, Theresa May, “Leaving the European Union”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 173:

So, here's a bit of advice that I am sure she will not take: simply redeploy the lot of them, merge Network Rail with the train operators, call it British Railways, give it a set budget, and then let Andrew Haines and his colleagues get on with it. Simples.

2022 September 21, Christian Wolmar, “Trevelyan must 'give a damn' and engage with the railway”, in RAIL, number 966, page 45:

(UK, slang, humorous) Indicating that something is easy to do or to understand.


Diex aie

(Norman) The battle cry of the Dukes of Normandy, and the Normans at the Battle of Hastings.


そんな

("[something] like that [is not possible]!") Expression of disbelief, 'no (way)', 'impossible', 'it can't be', 'I don't believe it'.


しまった

The perfective form of しまう (shimau, “to finish”), literally meaning “finished”. Compare Mandarin 完了 (wánle).

used in response to a failure or mistake: dang, shoot, darn it


dy-no-mite

From dynamite; made popular by actor and comedian Jimmie Walker in his role as J. J. Evans in the American situation comedy Good Times in the 1970s.


جان

→ Middle Armenian: ջան (ǰan)

desctree

→ Armenian: ջան (ǰan), ճան (čan) — Western Armenian
→ Russian: джан (džan)

→ Azerbaijani: can

→ Bashkir: йән (yən)

→ Bengali: জান (jan)

→ Chuvash: чун (čun)

→ Gujarati: જાન (jān)

→ Georgian: ჯანი (ǯani)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: जान (jān)

Urdu: جان (jān)

→ Kazakh: жан (jan)

→ Kurdish:

Central Kurdish: جان (can)

Northern Kurdish: can

→ Kyrgyz: жан (jan)

→ Ottoman Turkish: جان (can)
Turkish: can
Albanian: xhan
Macedonian: џан (džan)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: џан
Latin script: džan

→ Pashto: جان (ǰān)

→ Sindhi: جان (jān)

→ Tatar: җан (can)

→ Old Azari: جان (ǰān)

→ Turkmen: jan

→ Uyghur: جان (jan)

→ Uzbek: jon

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (HYA), [Book Pahlavi needed] (yʾn'), 𐫃𐫏𐫀𐫗 (gyʾn /gyān/, “soul, ghost”), from Proto-Iranian *wyaHnáH (equivalent to*wi- + *HanH- (“to breathe”)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wyaHnás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”), whence, for example, Latin animus.
Cognate with Northern Kurdish giyan, Central Kurdish گیان (giyan), Avestan 𐬬𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬥𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬁 (viiānaiiā), Sanskrit व्यान (vyāná).

der

what?; a request for clarification upon mishearing.


fo shizzle my nizzle

From fo shizzle + my + nizzle, rhyming variation of nigga, with the rhyming particle -izzle.

(slang, hip-hop) More emphatic and familiar form of fo shizzle; “For sure, my friend”, used to stress the following sentence.


dominus vobiscum

From Latin dominus vōbīscum ‘the lord be with you’, apparently taken from the Bible (e.g. Ruth 2:4 ‘And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee’).

(Roman Catholicism) A devout salutation often used as a prelude to certain set prayers; the traditional response is Et cum spīritū tuō.


sjitt

Borrowed from English shit. Doublet of skítur.

(vulgar) shit (exclamation indicating a marked displeasure with a newly discovered piece of news or with the current situation, or desperation on the realization of trouble to come)

fokk

similar, perhaps slightly stronger, but mostly just not expected from others than young people


والله

ar-interj

وَٱللّٰهِ • (wal-lāhi)

وَٱللّٰهِ (canonical)
wal-lāhi (romanization)

→ Classical Persian: وَٱللّٰه (wal-lāh)

Dari: وَٱللّٰه (wal-lāh)

Iranian Persian: وَٱللّٰه (val-lâh)

Tajik: валлоҳ (valloh)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: वल्लाह (vallāh)

Urdu: وَاللّٰہ (vallāh)

→ Albanian: vallahi

→ Danish: wallah

→ Dutch: wollah

→ English: wallah

→ French: wallah

→ German: wallah

→ Hebrew: וַאלְלַהּ (wálla)

→ Ottoman Turkish: والله (vallâhi)

Turkish: vallahi

→ Swedish: wallah

→ Swahili: wallahi

→ Bambara: walayi

From وَـ (wa-, “by (in oaths)”) + الله (allāh, “God”).


والله

Turkish: vallahi

Borrowed from Arabic وَٱللّٰهِ (wal-lāhi).


والله

head

والله • (vallâh)

Borrowed from Arabic وَٱللّٰهِ (wal-lāhi)..


والله

ajp-interjection

والله • (waḷḷa, waḷḷāhi)

waḷḷa (romanization)
waḷḷāhi (romanization)

From Arabic وَٱللّٰهِ (wal-lāhi, literally “by God”).


góði

góði! - my dear! (address to a male friend)


ㅋ

Because the letter k repeated sounds like a person laughing, putting ㅋ (k) in a consecutive manner stands for laughing in the Korean Internet media. Compare Portuguese kkk.

(Internet slang) lol, ha! (typically dismissive)


김치

Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 침채 (沈菜, chimchae, “soaked vegetables”). First attested in the Hunmong jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527, as Middle Korean 딤ᄎᆡ (Yale: timchoy).
In most dialects, Middle Korean 딤ᄎᆡ (Yale: timchoy) was regularly palatalized to 짐츼 (jimchui), whence modern southern dialectal 짐치 (jimchi). However, southern Korean dialects also palatalized /ki/ to /t͡ɕi/, which the Seoul prestige dialect did not. Seoul speakers hence hypercorrected 짐츼 (jimchui) to 김츼 (gimchui) to avoid sounding "southern", whence modern Standard 김치 (gimchi).
This word displaced the older Middle Korean term 디히〮 (Yale: tìhí) (whence 지 (ji), now only used in compound words and the southwestern Jeolla dialect), probably because regular sound change rendered it monosyllabic and caused it to have a large number of homophones.


coming through

Used to order someone to give clear passage.

nước sôi

used to order someone to give clear passage


ч. т. д.

Initialism of что и тре́бовалось доказа́ть (što i trébovalosʹ dokazátʹ, “as it was required to demonstrate”).

initialism

что и тре́бовалось доказа́ть


correctomundo

(slang) Alternative spelling of correctamundo


correctamundo

From correct + -amundo as an intensifier; compare Spanish correctamente. Popularized by the character Fonzie on the sitcom Happy Days.

"I'm assuming today is still Saturday." "Correctamundo."

1993, William Bernhardt, The Code of Buddyhood, Ballantine, →ISBN, →OL, page 119:

"Correctamundo," Ben confirmed.

1998, Michael Jan Friedman, Fantastic Four: Redemption of the Silver Surfer, →ISBN, →OL, page 182:


בוקר טוב

he-interj

בוקר טוב / בֹּקֶר טוֹב • (bóker tov)

בֹּקֶר טוֹב (canonical)
bóker tov (romanization)

(sarcastic, colloquial) "Finally realized?"


mamă

Inherited from Latin mamma. Compare Aromanian mamã, Romansch mamma, mumma, Sardinian mama, mamma.

Mamă, n-ar fi trebuit să faci asta.


ㅗ

(Internet slang, vulgar) fuck you. Rough equivalent to 🖕.


haway

Compare the older hadaway, which could be a distorted form of "hold away", "that away" or "get away". The word "haway" may be from have way. Compare the similar give way.

(Wearside) Alternative spelling of howay


skák

From Old Norse skák, from Classical Persian شاه (šāh), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /šāh/), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /xšāyaθiya/, “king”).


오래간만입니다

오래간만입니다! (canonical)
oraeganman-imnida! (romanization)

Long time, no see! (literally, "It has been a long time since the last time")


سپاس

From Proto-Iranian *spácati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *spáćati, from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-.


سپاس

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: सिपास (sipās)

Urdu: سپاس (sipās)

Ottoman Turkish: سپاس (sipâs)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (spʾs /spās/), from Proto-Iranian *spácati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *spáćati, from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-; see there for cognates.


perdie

For if the King like not the comedy
Why then belike he likes it not, perdie.

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, [Act III, scene ii]:


맞다

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 맞다〮 (Yale: màctá).

ko-etym-native

맞다, 안 가져왔지.


خر

imitative of the sound of the gnarl of a dog


asg

(Internet slang, text messaging) lol, LMAO, rofl (abbreviation of asgarv (“uproarious laugh”) or asgarvar (“laughing my head off”))


طب

ajp-interjection

طبّ • (ṭabb)


pho

'She is come!' said the old gentleman, laying his hand upon his heart. 'Cormoran and Blunderbore! She is come! All the wealth I have is hers if she will take me for her slave. Where are grace, beauty, and blandishments, like those? In the Empress of Madagascar? No. In the Queen of Diamonds? No. In Mrs Rowland, who every morning bathes in Kalydor for nothing? No. Melt all these down into one, with the three Graces, the nine Muses, and fourteen biscuit-bakers' daughters from Oxford Street, and make a woman half as lovely. Pho! I defy you.'

1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:

(archaic) Expressing dismissive contempt.


yoicks

A hunting cry used to urge hounds after a fox or other quarry.


chur

"Chur," Sir Howard [Morrison] hooted. "Chur doy, chur", which, translated, means something along the lines of: "Well done, mate".

2009 September 24, Julie Jacobson (interviewer), “Sir Howard Morrison Interview”, in The Dominion Post (reproduced on Stuff.co.nz), Wellington, archived from the original on 2013-12-11:

K[evin] L[ambert]: Got 2 mates; dum as fuk; do nethin 4 me; can drive truks; fly planes, got kidz 2. / T[uhoe] L[ambert]: Cher cuz. Da dumber da better.

[2012 March 24, “A Nation Divided: Inside the Urewera Four Trial”, in The New Zealand Herald, Auckland, archived from the original on 2017-10-18:

Meanwhile, on the crap-to-chur scale, Tron [i.e., Hamilton, New Zealand] weather is explained without any need for isobars or weather systems – who knew rain and snow down south was so simple?

[2015 September 9, Max Christoffersen, “We Like Waikato Civil Defence’s Stick Girl Tracey”, in Stuff.co.nz:

Does Mr [Peter] Thiel (chur, bro, by the way!) gain citizenship because the minister judged it “in the public interest because of exceptional circumstances of a humanitarian or other nature relating to the applicant”?

2017 January 25, Toby Manhire, “New Zealand Citizen Peter Thiel – 5 Awkward Questions and 10 Peculiar Facts”, in The Spinoff, archived from the original on 2017-04-10:

[Stan] Walker's closing address is probably closer to the show's reality: "More whānau … chur!"

2017 November 8, Calum Henderson, “Jacinda Ardern and Stan Walker trace their heritage”, in The New Zealand Herald, Auckland, archived from the original on 2018-01-30:

If someone’s made me some food, and it tastes really nice, when someone puts it in front of me, I’d say ‘Oh chur’. […] You always say it with a smile on your face. Every time you hear it, it pretty much gives you a smile, so, chur.

2018 October 18, “KJ Apa Explains ‘Chur’, ‘Yarn’ and ‘Bugger All’ in New Video”, in Stuff.co.nz, archived from the original on 2018-11-04:

A strong voicing of agreement, approval, or thanks: awesome!, cheers!, ta!, thanks!.

Never a dull moment much love to you axe as well. Chur my cuz. [On hearing of the death of Norm Berryman.]

2015 June 23, Brendon Egan, quoting Slade McFarland, “Norman Berryman Emotional Tribute by John Akurangi”, in Stuff.co.nz:

A parting salutation: bye, see you later.


блядь

head

блядь • (bljadʹ)

Inherited from Old East Slavic блѧдь (blędĭ), from Proto-Slavic *blędь (“error”), from *blęsti (“to talk nonsense, err”).

inh+

Ты что де́лаешь, блядь?!

(vulgar, swear word) interjection (may be contracted to бля (blja)); compare for fuck's sake!, shit!, etc.

Я знаю, блядь.
Ja znaju, bljadʹ.
I fucking know that.

бля бу́ду

I’ll be a whore (used as an affirmation; translates to "I understand what you expect of me and I take full responsibility for what I said, and I swear that what I said is the truth".)

Бля бу́ду, не брал я твои́ штаны́!

I fucking swear, I didn't take your pants!

(vulgar, intensive) (may be contracted to бля (blja)); compare damn, fucking, etc.

Я, бля, три дня не пил!

I haven't had a drink in three fuckin' days!


блядь

head

блядь • (bljadʹ)

Блядь! Чому́ все так?

Що ти, блядь, ро́биш?

Іди́, блядь, кра́ще попрацю́й!

Блядь, яки́й це жах.


یا

یا علی

O Ali (common religious phrase among Shia Muslims)


ammazza

Ammazza, quant'è stupido, questo!

Goddamn, this guy is dumb! (literally, “Kill, how much is dumb, this one!”)

(chiefly Roman and central Italian) expressing surprise; damn!, goddamn!


ammazzate

(chiefly Roman and central Italian) Alternative form of ammazzete (“damn!, goddamn!”, expressing surprise)


とんでもございません

From the adjective とんでもない by replacing ない with ございません.


とんでもありません

From the adjective とんでもない by replacing ない with ありません.


muss-be

(slang) "must be"; A response in the affirmative, by people such as disgruntled workers, to respond to a question that does not interest them.


chicha

[ˈt͡ʃiː.t͡ʃɐ]


ade

From Middle High German adē, from Old French adieu. Doublet of tschö.

(archaic, poetic or regional) farewell, adieu


thunderation

An Americanism from around 1830 to 1840, from thunder + -ation.

Thunderation! I've lost my glasses!

(US, colloquial) An exclamation of surprise, agitation or petulance.


tschüs

(informal, rather rare) Alternative form of tschüss


gute Nacht

Gute Nacht


indi

Possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hediq. Compare Tagalog hindi.


ritirati

Of a crackling sound, especially that caused by thin ice crackling under one's feet.


vari

Vari od našeho prahu, vari pryč, ty lstivý vrahu, a kdo tobě prve stlával, ať ti zase ustele!

1853, Karel Jaromír Erben, “Vodník”, in Kytice:


cu plăcere

LL-Q7913 (ron)-Andreea Teodoraa-cu plăcere.wav


maldición

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin maledictiōnem (“evil-speaking, curse”), from maledīcō (“to speak ill of”).


impiccati

an exclamation of impatience or intolerance


afuera

From Spanish afuera, the English definition originates from a video where Javier Milei removes the names of government agencies off a board.

South Africa needs a milei!
Socialist ANC? Afuera!
Communist EFF? AFUERA!
LONG LIVE FUCKING FREEDOM!

Javier Milei has been officially inaugurated as president of Argentina.
Our plan is to apply his plan for Argentina in this video to US agencies.
IRS, Fed, NSA, DHS, FBI, CIA, DOE, CDC, FDA, FEC...AFUERA!

(politics, chiefly used by libertarians) used aggressively towards leftist and statist views as a form of get out!


afuera

From a- + fuera. Compare Aragonese afora, Extremaduran afuera, ahuera, Portuguese afora, Romanian afară.


fucking hell

/ˈfʌkɪŋ ˌhɛl/

/ˈfɐkɪŋ ˌhɛl/

Fucking hell, that wrestler's huge.

(vulgar, idiomatic) An exclamation of great surprise.

мамка му да еба

an exclamation of great surprise (vulgar)

Fucking hell, why are you so bloody late?

(vulgar, idiomatic) An exclamation of anger.

Fucking hell, what the fuck?

(vulgar, idiomatic) An exclamation of bewilderment.


fuck it

I was going to clean my room, but thought "fuck it, nobody's going to see it."

I took a pill in Ibiza / To show Avicii I was cool / And when I finally got sober, felt 10 years older / But fuck it, it was something to do

2015, “I Took a Pill in Ibiza”, in At Night, Alone., performed by Mike Posner:

(vulgar, idiomatic) An expression of great indifference or nonchalance.

(sometimes "dă-o-n" is replaced with "dă-l în") dă-o-n pulă

Fuck it, I can't be arsed to look for that bloody key anymore.

(vulgar, idiomatic) An expression of frustration.

Honey, would you please help me serve the hors d'oeuvres?
You know,... I'm really busy right now hosting and entertaining all my friends...
Fuck it! I'll do it myself.

(vulgar, idiomatic) An expression of anger or dismissal; forget it.


peccavi

Borrowed from Latin peccāvī (“I have sinned”).


sajonara

Borrowed from Japanese さよなら (sayonara), a shorter form of more traditional さようなら (sayōnara, “goodbye”, literally “if that's the way it is”).


heia

aha! come now! come on! (expressing delight, playful remonstrance, encouragement)


heia

Heia! heia! heia!

Heia Norge!

Encouraging shout used in competitions to spur the athletes on.


heia

Heia! heia! heia!

Heia Norge!


muikku

mui- + -kku; a diminutive derivation of muja-, from which muikea and muje are also derived.


perita

(Andalusia, Malaga, colloquial) cool, terrific.


viheltää

[ˈʋiɦe̞l̪t̪æː]

(military) Shouted when the whistling sound of a falling bomb is heard, used to command infantry to get down in order to shield their body against the explosion.


sul serio

A: Una volta un mio amico ha combattuto con un alligatore. B: Sul serio?!

A: A friend of mine wrestled with an alligator once. B: No way!


larga

larga (canonical)
largá (canonical)
ᜎᜇ᜔ᜄ (Baybayin)


но-о-о

но́-о-о (canonical)
nó-o-o (romanization)


gakk

Onomatopoeia mimicking the sound a goose makes.


gakk

Onomatopoeic of the sound a goose makes.


aivan

An instructive singular (compare ihan) of a root aiva-, from Proto-Finnic *aiva-, probably borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háywas, or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz (“long time”). Cognate with Votic aiva (“always”) and Estonian aiva (“always”).


yo momma

"where you git it?" asked Freddie. "Yo momma." "Aw, Rank, cut that shit out, man."

In order to keep the teacher from knowing what we were doing, we just cleared our throats and that meant “your mother" (yo momma) .

1991, Evelyn Baker Dandy, Black Communications: Breaking Down the Barriers, page 87:

"I'm out stank man!" I said to the laughing gas man. "Yo momma."

2006, John H. Eaves, Speakers of the House, page 113:

In that vein, I would like to dedicate this book to the drivers of tonight's heat: to Aimee, Ben, Mike, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Ro, Chris, Anna, John, Alice, and Lauren—bad-to-the-bone outlaw crushers every last one of you—yo' momma.

2007, Marc Parent, Aimee Bender, Benjamin Cheever, The Secret Society of Demolition Writers:

(African-American Vernacular) A general purpose insult.


meno male

thank goodness!; That's a good thing!; luckily!

Meno male che hai finito!

meno male che oggi non sono andato a lavorare perché c'è stata una bufera di neve nel pomeriggio!

it's a good thing that I didn't go to work today because there was a snowstorm this afternoon!

(followed by che) It's a good thing that..; It's a good job that..; It was lucky for me (or you, her, etc.) that.


thank goodness

Form of thank God without mentioning God: thus, a secular counterpart.

see others there, including thank heavens


løype

From Old Norse hleypa (“make run”), from hlaupa (“run”).

cross-country skiing
cross-country skiing

Make way! or give way!; shout applied in cross-country skiing to make the skier in front vacate the ski track.


mah

an expression of disapproval or resignation


mah

Might be from German gemach (“slowly, easy”), from Old High German gimah (“calm, comfortable”). Compare with more common version gmȃh.


afe

Little Dream
i ja
no chyba że mam iść i wam nie przeszkadzać
shadie
a ja nie lubie o :p czerwony barszcz z uszkami brrr. ble. jeszcze na siłe chcą we mnie to wpychac. afe!

2006 June 28, moja1, “Ukochany Spam”, in www.forumowisko.pl, retrieved 2023-04-14:

Little Dream
and me
unless I have to go and not disturb you
shad
and I don't like it :p red borscht with dumplings brrr. blah. they still want to force it on me. away with it!


tuota

[ˈt̪uo̞̯t̪ɑ̝]

* (interjection): From the partitive singular of tuo. Demonstrative pronouns developing into words used to fill pauses is found across the world's languages: examples include Russian это (eto) (from э́тот (étot)), Spanish este and Japanese あのう (anō) (from あの (ano)).

filled pause; well, uhh (especially at the beginning of an utterance)


ga-ga

(onomatopoeia) The noise of a baby trying to imitate speech.


hain

Hain? Katsa pumawi?

huh, what (used in response asking for something to be repeated)

Mama? Hain?

yes, uh-huh (used in response to being addressed)

Aitsa kala hoona uma ou. Hain...

[First speaker] [She] absolutely refused [him]. [Second speaker] Really...

Umejo iyawi, iya kwakwoho onakuwi. Punupa kali, yuutapai ninyu wi? uma pa kai.... Ehn, ninyu apakatapai yiuwi. Nejo kala awatanatapai yeyawa han... Aitsa yuutapai hyan? uma. Hain? Nejokuma kalano? umakonapai ipitsi.

Her husband went, [he] went into the men's house. "Now see here, do you all know about my wife [what my wife has been up to]?" he surely did say.... "Well, my wife is causing [the Flute Spirit] to sing. She's the very one who has been playing the [sacred] flute in the middle of the night.... So you all didn't even know about this?" he said. "What? Could she possibly have been the one [to do such a thing]?" they all said about it.

hmm, really, you don't say, is that so, what (used in noncommital response to a statement, or to express interest, attentiveness, or amazement)


sukat

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sukat. Compare Aklanon sukat, Kapampangan sukad, Malay sukat, and Tetum sukat.

expressing wonder, surprise, or disapproval: imagine!


دھنیہ واد

ur-interjection

دھنیہ واد • (dhanya-vād) (Hindi spelling धन्यवाद)

dhanya-vād (romanization)
धन्यवाद (Hindi)

/d̪ʱən.jə.ʋɑːd̪/

From Sanskrit धन्य (dhanya, “auspicious, blessed, lucky”) + वाद (vāda, “speech”).


شکریہ

pa-interj

شُکْرِیَہ • (śukriyah) (Gurmukhi spelling ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ)

شُکْرِیَہ (canonical)
śukriyah (romanization)
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (Gurmukhi)

LL-Q58635 (pan)-Usmaan (Middle river exports)-ਸ਼ੁਕਰਿਆ.wav

An Indo-Aryan innovation, derived from Arabic شُكْر (šukr, “thankfulness, gratitude”, the verbal noun of شَكَرَ (šakara, “to thank”)) + ـِيَّة (-iyya). Compare Bengali শুকরিয়া (śukriẏa), Dhivehi ޝުކުރިއްޔާ (šukuriyyā), Hindi शुक्रिया (śukriyā)/Urdu شُکْرِیَہ (śukriya) (see Arabic شُكْر (šukr) for all cognates).
Not borrowed from Arabic شُكْرِيَّة (šukriyya) nor from Persian شکریه (šokriyye), which don't have such meanings.

der

the verbal noun of <i class="Arab mention" lang="ar">شَكَرَ</i> (šakara, “to thank”)


شکریہ

ur-interjection

شُکْرِیَہ • (śukriya) (Hindi spelling शुक्रिया)

شُکْرِیَہ (canonical)
śukriya (romanization)
शुक्रिया (Hindi)

An Indo-Aryan innovation, derived from Arabic شُكْر (šukr, “thankfulness, gratitude”, the verbal noun of شَكَرَ (šakara, “to thank”)) + ـِيَّة (-iyya). Compare Bengali শুকরিয়া (śukriẏa), Dhivehi ޝުކުރިއްޔާ (šukuriyyā), Hindi शुक्रिया (śukriyā), Punjabi ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (śukrīā)/شُکْرِیَہ (śukriyah) (see Arabic شُكْر (šukr) for all cognates).
Not borrowed from Arabic شُكْرِيَّة (šukriyya) nor from Persian شکریه (šokriyye), which don't have such meanings.


paikka

[ˈpɑ̝i̯kːɑ̝]

From Proto-Finnic *paikka (compare Estonian paik and Votic paikkõ), probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ (compare English spoke).


jossa

With "Keep! Keep! Stand! Stand! Jossa, warderere, Ga whistle thou, and I shal kepe hym heere!"

1387, Chaucer, “v. 4101”, in The Reeve's Tale:

A command to a horse, probably meaning "stand still".


vietävä

[ˈʋie̞̯t̪æʋæ]


truco

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *trewd-der.
Proto-Italic *troudō
Latin trūdō
Latin -icō
Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre
Old Occitan trucar
Old Occitan trucbor.
Old French trut
Middle French truc
French trucbor.
Spanish trucobor.
Portuguese trucoBorrowed from Spanish truco. Doublet of truque.

etymon

Frederico a esta prova de amor, atordoou-se. Esqueceu-se das cartas e instinctivamente dizia:
— Truco.
Dando uma forte punhada na mesa o Teixeira bradou:
— Seis, jogador!
E Frederico perdia.

1881, Francisco Coelho Duarte Badaró, chapter XV, in Fantina, Rio de Janeiro: Garnier, page 60:


adentro

[aˈð̞ẽn̪.t̪ɾo]


ábsit

(obsolete) go away (declares a desire that something should go far from the speaker, or that God free them of it)


selvä

From Proto-Finnic *selvä. Related to Ingrian selvä, Karelian selvä and Kukkuzi selvä.

Selvä, mennäänpä sitten.

all right, OK (used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent).


gee up

Gee up, Dobbin, Gee ho, Dobbin, Gee up, Dobbin, Gee up, and gee ho - o - o!

1850, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in David Copperfield:

There he sat and kicked away and cried: " Gee up, gee up! " to his nag.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 223:

"Gee up!" The horses roused themselves and pulled the light carriage along as though it were a feather

1961, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, chapter 1, in Dead Souls, →ISBN:

He kept on cracking his whip, and calling out, "Gee-up, my five horses!"

1996, Andrew Lang, The Yellow Fairy Book, Big Klaus and Little Klaus,, →ISBN:

(directed at a horse) move on!, go faster!


evo

ȅvo (canonical)
е̏во (Cyrillic)
when referring to objects (with-genitive)

Evo tamo!

Evo ga, gotov sam!

Evo ga tamo!

(by extension, contexual) over here, over there


кошмар

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кошма́р • (košmár)

кошма́р (canonical)
košmár (romanization)

Connected to French cauchemar, from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare. First element from Latin calcare (“I trample, tread on”); second element from Middle Dutch mare (“phantom, spirit, nightmare”), from Proto-Germanic *marǭ (“nightmare, incubus”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”). See cauchemar.

der

кошма́ръ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)


the hell

“She said she had a date later!”
“The hell!” exclaimed Crane.

2013, Jonathan Latimer, The Lady in the Morgue, →ISBN:

(mildly vulgar) Ellipsis of what the hell: an exclamation indicating surprise or dismay.


بدرود

[bäd̪.ɾʊːd̪̥]

Equivalent to به (be, “to”) + درود (dorud, “health; well-being”).

af

ماه کنعانی من! مسند مصر آنِ تو شد
وقت آن است که بدرود کنی زندان را

c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 9”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]:

My Canaanite beauty [lit. moon]! The throne of Egypt is yours,
The hour is such for you to bid the prison farewell.

mâh-i kan'ânî-yi man! masnad-i misr ân-i tu šud
waqt ân ast ki badrôd kunî zindân râ


aja

Aja, det får duga

Vi borde kanske packat ner ett paket strumpor till, men aja, nu måste vi åka

Maybe we should've packed another pack of socks, but oh well, we have to go now

Indicates (mild) resignation and wanting to move on from a subject; oh well


ʻae

Inherited from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *a(a)e. Compare Maori āe and Tahitian ʻae.

inh+

ʻAe waha

Ua ʻae mai ʻoia i koʻu hele

ʻAe wale


sos

From Ancient Greek ἐσώσα (esṓsa), aorist of Ancient Greek σῶς (sôs).

(colloquial, chiefly in the negative) indeed, really, in fact


kunpa

Kunpa minulla olisi rahaa!

Milloin pääsemme täältä pois? – Kunpa tietäisin!
When do we get away from here? – I wish I knew!


permisi

From Dutch permissie, Middle Dutch permissie, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissio.

Said as a polite request for an individual's attention; to pass, to apologize for one's inconvenience, equivalent to pardon, or excuse me


not on your tintype

He got out an enlistment blank, and placing his finger on a blank line said, "Sign here." I answered, "Not on your tintype." "I beg your pardon?" Then I explained to him that I would not sign it without first reading it.

(colloquial) An answer indicating outright rejection or denial; no way; absolutely not.


juma

ui juma


sterkte

From Middle Dutch stercte, sterkede. Equivalent to sterk + -te.

Gecondoleerd met het verlies van je opa. Heel veel sterkte!

I'm sorry to hear you lost your grandpa. Wishing you lots of strength!

expression used to wish someone the strength to persevere whatever hardship they are experiencing (usually illness, or the death of a loved one)


別に

別 (betsu, “separate”) + に (ni, particle), literally separately, used idiomatically to mean something closer to especially. Compare Korean 별로 (byeollo).

「店に行きたい？」「いや、別に。」

"Do you want to go to the store?" "Eh, not really."


totta

[ˈt̪o̞t̪ːɑ̝]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

Laura on hyvä kokki. -Totta!


이런

First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum eonhae (訓民正音諺解本 / 훈민정음언해본), 1446, as Middle Korean 이런 (Yale: ilen). From 이렇다 (ireota, “to be like this”).

ko-etym-native

이런! 내가 더이상 실수하지 않았으면 좋겠는데.

Darn it! I hope I wouldn't make any mistakes anymore. (colloquial)

ireon! naega deoisang silsuhaji anasseumyeon jokenneunde.

weak expression of frustration/disgust; compare darn, oh no, shucks


reps

Shortened from repesin nauruun (literally “I ruptured into a laugh”).


מספיק

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מַסְפִּיק • (maspík)

מַסְפִּיק (canonical)
maspík (romanization)

The adverb sense presumably derives from the verb sense, and the interjection sense from the adverb sense.


käy

Valot, kamera, käy!


osana

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic осанна (osanna).


uraa

Finnish transliteration of a Russian battle cry.


ahaa

aha, oh, I see (exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition)


어디

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 어듸〮 (Yale: ètúy).

ko-etym-native

(to refer to a something that is great or honorable in the ironical interrogative sentence)

Expression used to emphasize a pitiable circumstance

Exclamation used to drive an ox onto right direction

Exclamation used to turn an ox to the right


ไป

From Proto-Tai *pajᴬ (“to go”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨻᩱ (pai), Khün ᨻᩱ (pai), Lao ໄປ (pai), Lü ᦺᦔ (ṗay) and ᦺᦗ (pay), Tai Dam ꪼꪜ, Shan ပႆ (pǎi), Aiton ပႝ (pay), Phake ပႝ (pay), Nùng páy, Zhuang bae, Bouyei bail, Tày pây, Phu Thai ไป๋.


mums

Mums!
Yum!

Det här är mums!

Det här smakar mums!


Dios mío

my God!; oh my God! (an expression of shock or surprise)


minga

Ese juguete es mío. ― ¡Minga! El que lo encuentra, se lo queda.

That toy is mine. ― No way! Finders keepers.


dupa

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dupa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *daupāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowp-eh₂, from the root *dʰewp- (“deep”).

(vulgar) an expression of disappointment


oggy oggy oggy

(British) A simple chant to rouse a crowd.


musa

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musa (to one person, to multiple people musani)


Bewegung

From Middle High German bewegunge, from Old High German biwegunga. bewegen + -ung. Compare English beweighing.


זין

he-interjection

זַיִן • (záyin)

An Old Iranian borrowing, cognate to Old Armenian զէն (zēn).


vă rog

please (informal and formal plural; formal singular)


да-с

Compounded from да (da) + -с (-s), which is an abbreviated form of су́дарь (súdarʹ)/суда́рыня (sudárynja).


그럼

Contraction of 그러면 (geureomyeon, “if so”)


יופי

he-interj

יופי / יֹפִי • (yófi) [pattern: קֹטֶל]

יופי חמוד, כל הכבוד!

סיימתם? יופי, בואו נמשיך.

well done, good; an exclamation of praise or endorsement of an achievement.

הגשם הפסיק, יופי, אפשר להתחיל להשתזף!

The rain has stopped. Great, we can start sunbathing!

ha-géshem hifsik, yófi, efshar l'hatkhil l-hishtazef!

יופי, המונית כאן.

great, good; an exclamation of approval.

יופי, מה נעשה עכשיו?

יופי, הרסת לי את היום.

oh just great; a cynical exclamation of dismay.


אח

אח, שכחתי מזה.

הַכֵּה בְכַפְּךָ וּרְקַע בְּרַגְלְךָ וֶאֱמָר אָח

Tanach, Ezekiel [[s:he:T1206#ו_יא|6:11]], with translation of the King James Version:

Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas

haké v'khap'khá urká b'ragl'khá ve'emór ákh

darn it, oh, no, alas, ach: an expression of dismay.


caray

A euphemism of carajo. Compare Portuguese carai.

(euphemistic) crikey, wow, good heavens, golly, gosh, whoa, man, boy, blimey (expresses surprise, astonishment)

heck, darn, gee, shucks, hell, geez, jeez, dang (expresses disturbance, anger, frustration, annoyance)


blee

Associated with Smash Hits magazine, where it may have originated.

Bikers […] tend to appear at the edges of the road and then zoom in front of your car. […] As you have probably found out already, one touch of these and it's time to order the wooden box. (Blee!)

It's a boring life being a cave man. No telly, no video and not even a Spectrum! Blee! All you can do is eat, but Brontosaurus steaks can be very tough.

1991, Nick Roberts, Cavemania (video game review) in Crash (issue 87, page 47)

(informal) Expressing disgust or trepidation.


horas

Borrowed from Toba Batak horas (“healthy”), from Proto-Batak *kəras, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kəʀas (“hard”). Doublet of keras.


brou

Shortening of dobrou, which in turn is a shortening of dobrou noc


cor blimey

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) An exclamation of surprise.


ehi

hey! (used to attract someone's attention)


alis

From Proto-Philippine *qalis (“to change place or activity”).


זהירות

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זְהִירוּת! • (z'hirút!)

זְהִירוּת! (canonical)
z'hirút! (romanization)

Root
 ז־ה־ר (z-h-r)
From זהיר (zahír) + ־ות (-út).


roll up

The "arrive by vehicle" sense involves the notion of being on wheels (or, similarly, on tank treads); it is conceptually coordinate with walk up as in "approach"; thus, both can take to as preposition (e.g., roll up to, walk up to, belly up to).

Roll up, roll up! Pies for sale!

Used to call the attention of potential purchasers.


puk

knock knock (used in lieu of knocking (e.g. on the door), when it is not possible to knock)


גוט

From Middle High German guot, from Old High German guot, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz. Compare German gut, English good, Dutch goed.

used to signal agreement with what was just said


внимание

внима́ние • (vnimánije)

внима́ние (canonical)
vnimánije (romanization)

Ru-внимание.ogg

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic въниманиѥ (vŭnimanije). By surface analysis, внима́ть (vnimátʹ) + -а́ние (-ánije).

surf

внима́ніе — Pre-reform orthography (1918)


κατάρα

κατάρα! (canonical)
katára! (romanization)


земля видна

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земля́ ви́дна!

земля́ ви́дна! • (zemljá vídna!)

земля́ ви́дна ! (canonical)
zemljá vídna! (romanization)


וואו

וואו! • (wáu)

From English wow and cognates in other languages.


τρίχες

τρίχες! (canonical)
tríches! (romanization)


تشکر

[t̪ʰä.ʃäk.kʰʊ́ɾ]

[t̪ʰä.ʃäk.kʰʊ́ɾ]

[t̪ʰä.ʃäk.kʰʊ́ɾ]

[t̪ʰä.ʃäk.kʰúɾ]

[t̪ʰæ.ʃækʲ.kʰóɹ]

[t̪ʰä.ʃäk.kʰúɾ]

Borrowed from Arabic تَشَكُّر (tašakkur).


newsflash

In the 1980s we thought that fat was the root of all evil, but now people are saying that insulin is what is making us fat or that we should eat paleo, like our prehistoric friends (um, newsflash: most people in the Paleolithic era died from starvation).

2019, Rob Lipsett, The Rob Lipsett Game Plan:

(colloquial, often sarcastic) Introduces an obvious fact of which the person addressed is ostensibly not aware.


morda

→ Czech: morda

→ Yiddish: מאָרדע (morde)

Borrowed from East Slavic. Compare Russian мо́рда (mórda).


ดี

สวัสดี สวัสดี#Thai

(slang) Clipping of สวัสดี (sà-wàt-dii).


plouf

onomatopoeic

Imitative

Le gaz fit « plouf », et, quelques minutes plus tard, l’odeur du café envahissait la maison.

The gas went "poof", and, a few minutes later, the smell of coffee filled the house.


goo-goo

The noise of a baby trying to imitate speech.


loadsamoney

From loadsa + money. Originally the name and catchphrase of a vulgar character who flourished wads of banknotes, invented by British comedian Harry Enfield in the 1980s.

My hon. Friend entered the House in 1987, and I am sure that my hon. Friend will recall the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition talking about the "loadsamoney society" and the bad effect that that has had on crime rates.

1989 March 10, John Patten, parliamentary debates:

Questioned on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on whether he would be adopting a pre-election "loadsamoney" stance, Mr Blunkett said that there would be "substantial investment" but "loadsamoney will not be a term I'll be using".

2000 July 17, “Blunkett rejects 'loadsamoney' tag"”, in BBC News:

[see title]

2007 June 4, “Loadsamoney! West Ham set to join high rollers with £13m offer for Johnson; £90,000 a week.”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 2009-05-25:

(British, informal, humorous) Referring to the free flowing of money, to large amounts spent or earned, or to the perceived acquisitiveness and materialism engendered in society by a booming economy.


kõik

From Proto-Finnic *kaikki. Cognate with Finnish kaikki and Votic kõikki.

Ma lihtsalt ei tee seda ja kõik!

I will simply not do that, full stop (or period)!

Used at the end of sentences as a final or emphasising word.


aw shucks

Aw shucks, you're going to make me blush.

An expression of bashfulness or modesty, especially in response to a compliment or when giving thanks.

Aw shucks, it looks like we're going to lose the game after all.

Used to express disappointment, embarrassment or annoyance.


Hals- und Beinbruch

Literally, “neck and leg fracture”. Probably corrupted from Yiddish הצלחה און ברכה (hatslokhe un brokhe, “success and blessing”).

der

הצלחה און ברכה

Mal ehrlich, Jochen: Machst Du es? Fährst Du runter auf den Balkan und hälst^([sic]) Deinen Kopf hin für die Geschundenen dieser Welt?? […] Ich bin gespannt auf Deinen ganz persönlichen Einsatz. Von Herzen: Hals- und Beinbruch.

1993 March 20, Stephan Lessenich, “Waffen helfen Bosnien nicht”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN, page 32:

Let's be honest, Jochen: Are you going to do it? Are you going to go to the Balkans and put your head on the line for the oppressed of this world?? […] I am excited to see your very personal commitment. With all my heart: Break a leg.


καλησπέρα

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καλησπέρα • (kalispéra)

EL-καλησπέρα.ogg

κα‧λη‧σπέ‧ρα

From καλή (kalí, “good”) + εσπέρα (espéra, “evening”).


καλημέρα

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καλημέρα • (kaliméra)

EL-καλημέρα.ogg

Univerbation of καλή (kalí, “good”) + μέρα (méra, “day”)

univerbation

Καλημέρα, τι κάνετε;


молоток

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молото́к! • (molotók!)

молото́к! (canonical)
molotók! (romanization)

Ru-молоток.ogg

молото́къ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)


ស្វាគមន៍

km-interj

ស្វាគមន៍ • (svaakum)


ទទួល

ទទួល • (tɔɔtɔtuəl)

ស្វាគមន៍ ស្វាគមន៍#Khmer


ratbags

(UK, colloquial, dated) A mild exclamation of dismay.


ντροπή

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ντροπή • (ntropí)

From Ancient Greek ἐντροπή (entropḗ, “turning away”), from Ancient Greek ἐντρέπω (entrépō), from ἐν (en, “in, on”) + τρέπω (trépō, “to turn”). Cognate with English entropy.

inh

Έχει καταντήσει αηδία η κατάσταση, ντροπή πια!

The situation has ended up ridiculous, for shame!

Échei katantísei aïdía i katástasi, ntropí pia!


egal

"Willst du zuerst ins Kino oder ins Café gehen?" "Egal."

"Do you want to go to the cinema or the cafe first? " "I don't mind."


take heart

Take heart, help will arrive shortly and everything will be fine.

Used when encouraging someone to bear or take up a difficult situation.

頑張って

more common when encouraging an individual


вот это да

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вот э́то да́

вот э́то да́ • (vot éto dá)

вот э́то да́ (canonical)
vot éto dá (romanization)

wow, how about that (expression of astonishment)


Augenblick

From Middle High German ougenblick (“quick glance”), corresponding to Auge (“eye”) + -n- + Blick (“glance”). Cognate to Yiddish אויגנבליק (oygnblik), Luxembourgish Abléck, Dutch ogenblik, Danish øjeblik, Swedish ögonblick, Norwegian øyeblikk, Icelandic augnablik. Compare English eyeblink.


sjitturinn

From English shit + -ur + -inn, literally “the shit”.

af

Sjitturinn! Ég gleymdi lyklunum heima.

fokk

similar, perhaps slightly stronger, but mostly just not expected from others than young people


helvítis

Helvítis! Ég týndi lyklunum mínum aftur!


fyrirgefðu mér

Fyrirgefðu mér faðir, því ég hef syndgað.


fokk

pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(slang, vulgar) pronunciation spelling of fuck.


tut-tut

An expression of annoyance or impatience.

ts-ts-ts

an expression of annoyance or impatience


話說

/xu̯ä⁵¹ ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵/

/ue²²⁻²¹ sueʔ³²/

/ue²²⁻²¹ seʔ³²/

/ue⁴¹⁻²² sueʔ⁵/

/ue⁴¹⁻²² seʔ⁵/

/ue²²⁻²¹ sueʔ³²/

/ue²²⁻²¹ seʔ³²/

/ue³³⁻¹¹ sueʔ³²/

/ue³³⁻¹¹ seʔ³²/

/ue³³⁻²¹ sueʔ³²/

/ue³³⁻²¹ seʔ³²/

/xu̯ä⁵¹ ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵/

/ue²²⁻²¹ sueʔ³²/

/ue²²⁻²¹ seʔ³²/

/ue⁴¹⁻²² sueʔ⁵/

/ue⁴¹⁻²² seʔ⁵/

/ue²²⁻²¹ sueʔ³²/

/ue²²⁻²¹ seʔ³²/

/ue³³⁻¹¹ sueʔ³²/

/ue³³⁻¹¹ seʔ³²/

/ue³³⁻²¹ sueʔ³²/

/ue³³⁻²¹ seʔ³²/


mä

Any number of ä letters can be added to show the length of the bleat


get fucked

Get fucked-- I'm disgusted with the way you acted today.

(vulgar, offensive) A term used to express contempt. Usually used after the individual in question is retaliated upon and the user has no sympathy.

Get fucked-- I don't need your help.

(vulgar, offensive, dismissal) Go away, get lost.

How dare you do that to Elizabeth? Get fucked!

(vulgar, offensive) A curse meaning "go to hell".

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, fucked.


screw you

You'll just lie in your bed all day rather than help us? Well, screw you.

Screw you—go annoy someone else!

Screw you! You think you can come to my house dressed like a slob?

During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.

2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents:

Well, screw you. Screw all of you. I hope this letter is like a knife in your hearts. You ruined my life. All I've done is pay you back in kind.

(slang, idiomatic, mildly vulgar) less offensive version of fuck you.


laus Deo

Anno denique 1597. praesentem Tomum Tertium, ac postremum Operum omnium S. Patris nostri Ephraem Syri; tandem (Laus Deo) Romae absolutum, ex Vaticana Typographia edidimus.

1619, Sancti Patris Ephraem Syri Scriptoris Ecclesiae Antiquissimi et Dignissimi Opera Omnia […] , page 620:

Finally in the year 1597 we published the present Third Volume, and the last of the whole works of our Holy Father Ephrem the Syrian, at length (praise be to God) absolved by Rome.

In dubio porro est obediendum principi, quia si bene fecerit, laus Deo, si male, hoc permittit Deus pro punitione populi […]

1691, Francesco Gallo, edited by Bernardino Gallo, Tractatus de Fructibus […] , page 222:

The prince, furthermore, is to be obeyed when in doubt, because if he has done good, praise be to God, if bad, God allows this for the punishment of the people […]

praise be to God (exclamation of happiness or thanks)


эх

Эх, ты, лентя́й!

Oh, you’re such a layabout! (reproach or regret)

Ты не сдал экза́мен? Эх, ты́!

tut tut, tsk, shame on you!, you of all people!

Я урони́л цветы́ в лу́жу! Эх, ты́!

I dropped the flowers into a puddle! What a shame!


valete

[u̯äˈɫ̪eːt̪ɛ]

From the verb valeō (“I am well, healthy”).


bună

Short for bună ziua, bună dimineața, or bună seara.


oks

From English OK + -s (“suffix for slang”).


שלמא

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שְׁלָמָא • (šlāmā)

שְׁלָמָא (canonical)
šlāmā (romanization)

Common Northwest Semitic, Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (šālōm), Phoenician 𐤔𐤋𐤌 (šlm /šalōm/), Ugaritic 𐎌𐎍𐎎 (šlm /šalāmu/).

cog

Hebrew שָׁלוֹם (šālōm)


יש

Related to Aramaic אִית (ʾīṯ). Compare Arabic لَيْسَ (laysa, “to not be, there is not”).

Yes: used to express triumph or delight.


hevonvitunperse

hevonvitun (“horse's cunt's”) + perse (“ass”)

com

Voi hevonvitunperse! Sinun syysi, että ajoin vuokra-auton ojaan!

Oh, goddamn fucking cunt! It's all your fault that I drove the rented car into a ditch!


kanon

Borrowed from Swedish kanon (attested in Swedish at least since early 1930-s).

– No har me vore på besøk åt ho mormor og hjelpt ho med å få inn oppvaskmaskina.
– Kanon!
– Now we have visited the grandmother and helped her to get the dishwasher inside (the house).
– Good job!


bună ziua

Literally, “good day”. Compare Spanish buenos días, Portuguese bom dia, French bonjour, Italian buondì.


可惜

可惜 (canonical)
可惜 (canonical)
atara (romanization)
attara (romanization)

From 可惜し (atarashi, “regrettable; tragic; precious”).


將軍

/t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕyn⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ d͡ʑ̥yn²/

/t͡ɕiaŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕyn⁵⁵/

/t͡sœːŋ⁵⁵ kʷɐn⁵⁵/

/t͡si̯oŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ ki̯un²⁴/

/t͡siɔŋ³³ kœyŋ⁵⁴/

/t͡siɔŋ⁵⁴ kœyŋ⁵⁴/

/t͡suoŋ⁵⁵ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾ŋuŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kun⁴⁴/

/t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kun⁴⁴/

/t͡siaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kun⁴⁴/

/t͡siaŋ³³⁻²³ kuŋ³³/

/t͡ɕiã⁵⁵ t͡ɕyn²¹/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕyn⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ d͡ʑ̥yn²/

/t͡ɕiaŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕyn⁵⁵/

/t͡sœːŋ⁵⁵ kʷɐn⁵⁵/

/t͡si̯oŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ ki̯un²⁴/

/t͡siɔŋ³³ kœyŋ⁵⁴/

/t͡siɔŋ⁵⁴ kœyŋ⁵⁴/

/t͡suoŋ⁵⁵ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾ŋuŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kun⁴⁴/

/t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kun⁴⁴/

/t͡siaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kun⁴⁴/

/t͡siaŋ³³⁻²³ kuŋ³³/

/t͡ɕiã⁵⁵ t͡ɕyn²¹/

First used in the state of Jin in Spring and Autumn period, where the army are controled by one of the leaders of six powerful vassal states (see Zhongjunjiang). Later it becomes a separate official position.


fair enough

You can play the exercises pretty well on piano, fair enough, but can you play the movement expressively?

Puel was let go in June despite leading Southampton to their first major final for 14 years and an eighth-place finish in the Premier League. But apparently his style was too boring and some players and many fans disliked his method, so he had to go – fair enough but look at them now.

2017 October 14, Paul Doyle, “Mauricio Pellegrino yet to find attacking solution for stuttering Southampton”, in the Guardian:

(idiomatic) An expression used to concede a point; denotes that, upon consideration, something is correct or reasonable; an expression of acknowledgment or understanding.

Used to stop somebody talking or an argument.


цап

Onomatopoeic. Inherited from Proto-Slavic *capъ.


цап

(onomatopoeia) Used to denote a quick grasping action or movement, especially a cat scratch/pounce.


doy

Unknown. Possibly related to doylem (“a stupid person; an idiot”).

—Wow, he looks pretty angry. —Doy!

Uh, doy!

2015 March 6, “Kimmy Has a Birthday!”, in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, season 1, episode 9, spoken by Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper):

Disdainful indication that something is obvious; see duh.


приятного аппетита

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прия́тного аппети́та

прия́тного аппети́та • (prijátnovo appetíta)

прия́тного аппети́та (canonical)
prijátnovo appetíta (romanization)

LL-Q7737 (rus)-Tatiana Kerbush-приятного аппетита.wav


hoa

Hoa, who is within here?

1751, David Garrick, Every Man in His Humour (adapted from the 1598 work by Ben Jonson)

(obsolete) ho; hey; a call for attention


назад

наза́д • (nazád)

Наза́д!

Get back! (often with an intensified form of emotion)


слушаю-с

слу́шаю-с • (slúšaju-s)

слу́шаю -с (canonical)
slúšaju-s (romanization)

[ˈsɫuʂəjʊ‿s]

Compounded from слу́шаю (slúšaju) + -с (-s), which is an abbreviated form of су́дарь (súdarʹ)/суда́рыня (sudárynja).


так-с

Compounded from так (tak) + -с (-s), which is an abbreviated form of су́дарь (súdarʹ)/суда́рыня (sudárynja).


ptrooo

Command given by a rider or coachman for the horse to stop.


бегом

бего́м • (begóm)


pit-a-pat

Pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, the bullets kept falling and stirring up little puffs of dust on the open ground in front of the zeriba.

1900 May, Frederic Villiers, “Twenty Years on the War Path. […] VII.—“My Friend Corporal Tonbar.””, in The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature, volume XV, number 1, Toronto, Ont.: The Ontario Publishing Co., Ltd., page 40, column 2:

“Pit-a-pat! Pit-a-pat!”—On go the thousands of feet; on to the movie and on to the dance; on to the office, the club and the bank.

[1921], Aimee Semple McPherson, Divine Healing Sermons, [Los Angeles, Calif.], →OCLC, page thirteen:

Pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, / He danced on the whiskery nose.

2004, Julia Donaldson, “The Mouse and the Lion”, in Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum, Macmillan Children’s Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 4:

Representing a series of quick tapping sounds.


kukkokiekuu

Onomatopoeic, but also has a literal meaning "the cock crows", from kukko (“cock”) and kiekuu, third person singular present indicative of kiekua (“to crow; make a cock-a-doodle-doo”).


ulla

𒌌𒆷 𒀀𒇷𒅅 𒌉 [ulla alik māru]


asento

[ˈɑ̝s̠e̞n̪t̪o̞]

(military) attention, ten-hut (command to bring soldiers to attention)


להתראות

לְהִתְרָאוֹת

לְהִתְרָאוֹת • (l'hitra'ót)

לְהִתְרָאוֹת (canonical)
l'hitra'ót (romanization)


удачи

уда́чи! • (udáči!)

уда́чи! (canonical)
udáči! (romanization)

Genitive case; ellipsis of жела́ю уда́чи (želáju udáči). Compare with Ukrainian уда́чі (udáči).

ellipsis

жела́ю уда́чи


servas

Variant of servus, an ellipsis from the commoners’ greeting once said to feudal lords, "servus humillimus (Domine spectabilis)", in Latin meaning "(I am a) most humble servant, (O) noble lord".


молодец

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молоде́ц! • (molodéc!)

молоде́ц! (canonical)
molodéc! (romanization)

→ Armenian: մալադեց (maladecʻ)

→ Bashkir: маладис (maladis)

→ Lithuanian: maladiec

→ Yiddish: מאָלאָדיעץ (molodyets)


thiam

First element of Hokkien 恬去 (tiām-khì, tiām-khù, “shut up”).


wah lau

[ˈwɑ˦˨ ˌlaʊ˨˧]

[ˌwɑ̽ˈlaʊ˨˦˧]

From Teochew and Hokkien. Ultimate origin uncertain: first element equivalent to Hokkien 我 (óa, “my”) + lau, possibly from 老爸 (lāu-pē, “father”). Originated in the 1990s.

"Wah lau! You tekan him, ah? But he bigger than you, man!"

1992 February 22, soc.culture.asean (Usenet):

Zion Mansion... Wah lau, wasn’t that built in the Qing Dynasty or something.

2009, Jean Tay, Boom, Epigram Books, →ISBN, Act I, scene iv:

(Singlish, Manglish) An exclamation of annoyance or exasperation.


presto change-o

"It doesn't just go one, two, three, presto, change-o, you're cured."

1975, Laura Keane Zametkin Hobson, Consenting Adult, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 85:

1984, Audrey Wood, Presto Change-O, Child's Play, →ISBN:

Then tell them to read the sentence on the front of each flap, open the flap, and read the sentence inside. Presto Change-o! Common nouns are transformed into proper nouns, right before nouns, right before their eyes!

2001, Karen Kellaher, Writing Skills Made Fun: Parts of Speech, →ISBN, page 13:

But then that little psychopath Willie Bosket murdered a couple of subway riders for the hell of it when he was fifteen and -- presto change-o! -- a new law was born.

2006, Peter Blauner, Slipping Into Darkness: A Novel, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 3:

(informal) Alternative form of presto chango


presto chango

/ˌpɹɛstəʊ ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒəʊ/

From presto + rhyming variation of change.

1929, Business Week, advertisement,
Just one touch lets you go from black to a second color. Presto. Chango. Or back to black. Presto. Chango. Color copies have never been easier.

PRESTO CHANGO! From a dreary, commonplace piece to a smart colorful chair shining with personality.

1937 April 24, Washington Post, page 12:

"...An' presto-chango, you got yourself a twenty-eight-by-sixty-foot house."

1978, Richard Rhodes, Holy Secrets, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 31:

Tom nodded solemnly. "Presto Chango," he said. Then he looked at the policeman again. "My name is Joshua Cameron," he announced, and the policeman wrote that down.

1983, Lois Lowry, Taking Care of Terrific, Houghton Mifflin Children's Books, →ISBN, page 158:

Watch and before your eyes, presto chango, a capital crime of the most hideous sort will be turned into a superstition,....

2000, Candace Sherk Savage, Witch: The Wild Ride from Wicked to Wicca, Sterling Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:

Jesus is the ultimate stain lifter. He removes the stain of our sin, and presto, chango!

2014, Mike Lutz, God Every Day: 365 Life Application Devotions:

(informal) Indicates the suddenness of a change or transformation, as a magic trick in which one object appears to be suddenly transformed into another.


sowieso

Literally, “so like so”, that is "this way and that way", "anyway".

Das Nummernschild war K sowieso 132. Ich hab’s nicht genau gesehen.

The number plate was K something 132. I couldn’t really see it.

something; replaces unknown or unimportant words

Männer sind halt alle gleich. — Sowieso.

of course; sure; that’s a given; expresses agreement to a statement with the implication that it is trivial


varsågod

[vɑːʂɔˈɡuː(d)]

From var (“be”, imperative of vara) + så (“so”) + god (“good”).

compound

imperative of <i class="Latn mention" lang="sv">vara</i>

here you are, there you are (said when handing something over to someone)

it’s nothing (response to a “thank you”)

Var så god och sitt.

Varsågoda och ta för er av smörgåsbordet.

Please, help yourselves to the smorgasbord.

(somewhat formal) please (used to introduce an offer)


kakkulárakó

animal sound of the cock: cock-a-doodle-doo


voff

Hundurinn segir „voff, voff“.
The dog says “woof, woof”.


voff

"VOFF, VOFF!" skällde hunden
"WOOF, WOOF!" the dog barked


mæ

lambið sigur mæ.


gaggalagú

cock-a-doodle-doo, the cry of the rooster.


có

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có • (固, 古, 故, 𣎏)

vi-interjection

có • (固, 古, 故, 𣎏)

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

From Proto-Vietic *kɔːʔ (“to have”). Cognate with Muong cỏ.

Bạn có biết chúng ta chỉ sử dụng 10% não bộ?
Có, và đó là chuyện nhảm nhí.
Did you know we only use 10% of our brain?
Yes, and that's utter nonsense.

Các bạn có muốn được nghỉ sớm không?
Có!
Do you want to go home early?
Heck yeah!

(in response to a roll call) here; I'm here; present


îmi pare rău

Îmi pare rău că câinele meu mare te-a speriat.


zău

Inherited from Latin deus (“god”), or simply a variant of Romanian zeu ("god"), a simple doublet which kept the original meaning. The semantic evolution may be due to the act of "swearing to God" to affirm something is really true.

(in the context of the expression "zău așa") expresses that one affirms or swears something


hooie

I am all done. Hooie!


şey

From Ottoman Turkish شی, شیئ (şey, “thing”), ultimately from Arabic شَيْء (šayʔ).

Şey, anlayamadım.


skrukk

hønan sigur skrukk


chewie on ya boot

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(Australian rules football) A conventional expression meant to distract or wish bad luck to an opponent who is taking a kick for goal.


JK

常識的に考えて 常識的に考えて#Japanese

(rare) abbreviation of 常識的に考えて (jōshiki-teki ni kangaete).


out of someone's way

Out of my way!

Out of John's way!

Used to order someone to give clear passage.


zeg maar

Ik voel me raar vandaag, zeg maar gewoon verdrietig.

an expression that indicates the speaker's hesitation (e.g. unable to find a precise word to describe an idea) or simply as an expletive between two phrases or ideas; roughly equivalent to the English phrases you know, like, let's say


ecky thump

Introduced in "Kung Fu Kapers", a 1975 episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. In the episode, "ecky thump" is a secret Lancastrian martial art using black puddings as a weapon.

[…] its bellowing cry of Ecky thump! sounded much friendlier than […]

1985, Keith Waterhouse, Waterhouse At Large.:

The Guardian, Sunday June 10 2007, Kitty Empire
The latest Stripes album title, a play on the Lancastrian exclamation Ecky thump! is, in part, a gasp of surprise...

Ecky thump! I've never tasted anything as good.

(humorous, colloquial) Exclamation of surprise or pleasure, supposedly part of a Northern English dialect.


Olof

From Old Swedish Olāver, Olēf, from Old Norse Óláfr, from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᚢᛚᚨᛁᛒᚨᛉ (*anulaibaʀ). First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1400. Cognate with Norwegian Olav and English Olaf.

The letter "O" in the Swedish spelling alphabet


천만에요

(after receiving thanks, dated) you're welcome!


harmi

Borrowed from Swedish harm (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm; shame; pain”) whence also Estonian härm).

der

Harmi, että et pääse juhliimme tänään.

What a pity you can't attend our party tonight.

[what a] pity[!], what a shame[!], it's a pity, it's a shame, too bad!


maski

it doesn't matter; don't worry about it; no worries


halloo

From Middle English hallow (“pursue, urge on”), from Old French haloer, which is imitative.

onomatopoeic

imitative

Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.

Earl Walter winds his bugle horn;
To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo!
His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn,
And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.

1796, Gottfried Augustus Bürger, “The Chase”, in [Walter Scott], transl., The Chase, and William and Helen: Two Ballads, from the German […], Edinburgh: […] Mundell and Son, […], for Manners and Miller, […]; and sold by T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 1:

"Halloo!" cried the goodwife, and away she ran after it, with the frying-pan in one hand and the ladle in the other, as fast as she could, and the children behind her, while the goodman came limping after, last of all.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 65:

Used in hunting to urge on the pursuers.


aïe

interjection expressing a sharp pain: ouch!

interjection expressing worry: dang!; oh dear


kimya

From Arabic كِيمِيَاء (kīmiyāʔ, “chemistry”), it being a discreet art.


eed

(text messaging) Alternative spelling of evet (“yes”)


as you wish

- So, you will work till 8 tomorrow, then?
- As you wish.

A formal expression of agreement to something, especially with the connotation that one does not really agree.


as you like

- So, we'll buy the green one, then?
- As you like.

"Oh," he said, "so you're Conrad, are you? It strikes me the thickness of my skull was lucky for you too. When I look at you I feel it's almost a pity I've enabled you to cheat the hangman."
The man snarled, and the bearded man said quietly:
"He would have run no risk of that."
"Just as you like," replied Tommy. "I know it's the fashion to run down the police. I rather believe in them myself."

1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary:


va bene

(literally) third-person singular present indicative of andare bene


humph

A natural utterance, first recorded in the mid-16th century.

`Beauty is too rare upon it. Give me no thanks, who am made happy by thy coming.' `Humph! old fellow,' said Leo aside to me in English, `the lady is very civil.'

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

"There!" panted Pollyanna, hastily plucking a pink from a vase near by and tucking it into the dark hair where it would give the best effect. "Now I reckon we're ready to be looked at!" And she held out the mirror in triumph.
"Humph!" grunted the sick woman, eyeing her reflection severely. "I like red pinks better than pink ones; but then, it'll fade, anyhow, before night, so what's the difference!"

1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:

(onomatopoeia) A sound, usually made with a closed mouth pouting, indicating annoyance, indignation, disapproval, doubt, or sighing.


hist

(dated) An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.

psst

utterance used to attract someone's attention

"My worthy Nelly! I am greatly rejoiced to find it is no other than thee. Hist! child, hist! Should Ishmael gain a knowledge of our plans, he would not hesitate to cast us both from this rock, upon the plain beneath. Hist! Nelly, hist!"

1827, James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie: Chapter XI:

1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Scenes from "Politian", 2009 [1902], Charles F. Richardson (editor), The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1: Poems, page 87,
Hist! hist! thou canst not say / Thou hearest not now Baldazzar?,

There’s a clue somewhere; wait a bit; hist—hark! By Jove, I have it!

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 99”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

(dated) An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.


hup

After four we raise our swords. One two three four... hup two three four... hup two three four.

"Hup, two, three, fo', . . . " cracked the American voice out of the foggy darkness.

1943 February 8, The Goulburn Evening Post, NSW, Australia, page 3, column 5:

The first beat of a 4/4 military cadence, commanding either the lead-off step in a march or some other action.


hup

interjection describing a quick, jumping movement


hup

Synonym of hoppa (“let's go, hey presto, alley-oop”)


בסדר

he-interj

בְּסֵדֶר • (b'séder)

בְּסֵדֶר (canonical)
b'séder (romanization)

South Levantine Arabic: بسيدر

Root
 ס־ד־ר (s-d-r)
From בְּ־ (b'-, “in”) + סֵדֶר (séder, “order”), probably calque of German in Ordnung, also alles in Ordnung. Compare also Russian в порядке (v porjadke).

prefix

all right, okay, O.K.; a weakly positive interjection.


ods

Ods bodikin.

Ods pity.


ick

Lizzie grabbed a frog out of the lake and put it in her hair! Ick!

An aside for those who think “ick” about goat milk: If there are no billy goats around to arouse those sex hormones, goat milk does not taste “goat-y.

2014, Vicki Robin, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: Lessons from a 10-Mile Diet:


good Lord

Good Lord! You should really clean out that fridge!

R. Jeeves: In my experience, ladies who spell Gladys with a W are seldom noted for their reliability, sir. It gives them romantic notions.
B.W. Wooster: With a W, Jeeves? No, no, no, no. You spell it with a G.
R. Jeeves: If I might draw your attention to the signature on the portrait, sir.
B.W. Wooster: Good Lord! G-W?
R. Jeeves: I blame Alfred Lord Tennyson and his Idylls of the King. It also accounts for Kathryn, Ysabel, and Ethyl, all spelt with a Y, but Gwladys is a particularly virulent form, sir.

1993 May 16, “Return to New York”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:

An exclamation of amazement or disapproval.


partida

[pɐɾˈt̪iː.d̪ɐ]

Borrowed from Spanish partida (“departure”), feminine of partido.

bor+

Mataas ang grado ko sa test! Partida, wala pang aral yan!

My grade in the test was high! It was done despite not studying for it!

Marami na siyang natapos. Kakasimula lang niya partida.

She did a lot of things already. In fairness, she just started.

Hindi pa rin siya makahanap ng trabaho. Partida, marami na siyang koneksiyon pero wala pa rin.

He still wasn't able to find a job. Do note, he already had a lot of connections but still nothing.

(colloquial) emphasizing something was ironically done positively (or negatively) despite a disadvantage (or an advantage); mind you, in fairness, note that ...


no kidding

(colloquial) An exclamation of amazement.

Person A: The Cleveland Browns are not doing too awful well this year.

Person B: Yeah. No kidding! They lost their sixth consecutive game.

(colloquial, sarcastic) Said in response to an obvious statement.


그러니까

응, 그러니까.


pan-pan

From English pan-pan, from French panne (“breakdown”).

(radio slang) minor emergency requiring some assistance, not life-threatening


äh

argh (expression of annoyance, anger or frustration)


äh

an exclamation of disgust; yuck, ew, ugh


äh

uh, er (expression of confusion or uncertainty)


äh

eh, meh (expression of mild annoyance, frustration, or boredom)


epistä

(teen slang) Used to express discontent based on a feeling that a decision, statement, state of affairs etc. is unjust.


hys

Compare Swedish hysch, Possibly a borrowing, or of the same onomatopoeic origin.


hä

Expresses that one has not understood a statement

Used to belittle the issuer of a statement/question


rah-rah

Repetition of rah, as used in cheering at sporting competitions.

An expression of enthusiasm, expressed by high school and college cheerleaders at sporting events.


mk

(Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative spelling of m'kay.


야

야! 니 전화번호 까먹었단 말이야!

Ya! Ni jeonhwabeonho kkameogeotdan mar-iya!

야! 너 일로 와봐.

(colloquial, only to social equals or inferiors) hey!


ehei

Ehei, olet väärässä!

Luulin heidän jo lopettaneen, mutta ehei, he eivät olleet edes aloittaneet!

I thought they had already finished, but no, they hadn't even started!


CQFD

ce qu’il fallait démontrer
ce qu'il fallait démontrer#French

Initialism of ce qu’il fallait démontrer: QED


BFD

“As Biden would say, it’s a B.F.D.,” said Adam Riess, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

2024 April 4, Dennis Overbye, quoting Adam Riess, “A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong”, in Thew New York Times:

big fucking deal
big fucking deal#English

(especially humorous, vulgar) Initialism of big fucking deal.


фи

Used to show (usually arrogant) lack of admiration, interest, or inspiration: meh, whatever

Она бросилась к нему навстречу с обычным ласковым приветом — и вдруг остановилась.
— У вас нет перчаток, — с расстановкою проговорила она и тотчас же прибавила: — фи! какой вы… студент!

1867, Иван Тургенев, “VII”, in Дым; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., Smoke, 1896:

She rushed to meet him with her accustomed fond welcome; suddenly she stopped short.
'You have no gloves,' she said abruptly, and added directly after: 'Fie! what a student you are!'

Ona brosilasʹ k nemu navstreču s obyčnym laskovym privetom — i vdrug ostanovilasʹ.
— U vas net perčatok, — s rasstanovkoju progovorila ona i totčas že pribavila: — fi! kakoj vy… student!

Used to show (usually arrogant) disapproval, discontent: yuck, bah, pah, pfft (same as фу)


baie dankie

/ˈbɑi̯ə ˈdɑŋki/


halleluja

Borrowed from Latin alleluia, from Hebrew הַלְלוּיָהּ (hal'luyáh, “Praise Yah”).


halleluja

[ˈhɑ̝lːe̞ˌlujɑ̝]

הַלְּלוּיָהּ


halleluja

From Biblical Hebrew הַלְלוּיָהּ (hal'luyáh, “Praise Yah”).


إن شاء الله

ar-interj

إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ

إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ • (ʔin šāʔa llāhu)

إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ (canonical)
ʔin šāʔa llāhu (romanization)

→ Albanian: ishalla

→ Armenian: իշալլահ (išallah)

→ Azerbaijani: inşallah

→ Bashkir: иншалла (inşalla)

→ Bengali: ইনশাআল্লাহ্ (inśaallah)

→ Danish: inshallah

→ English: inshallah

→ French: inch’Allah

→ Georgian: ინშალლაჰ (inšallah)

→ German: inschallah

desc

→ Japanese: インシャーアッラー (inshāarrā), インシャラー (insharā), インシャッラーフ (insharrāfu)

→ Hebrew: אינשאללה

→ Hebrew: אינשאללה

→ Hindi: इंशाल्लाह (iñśāllāh)

→ Hindi: इंशाल्लाह (iñśāllāh)

→ Hungarian: insallah

→ Indonesian: insya Allah

→ Korean: 인샬라 (insyalla)

→ Ladino: ishalla

→ Macedonian: ишала (išala)

→ Malay: insya Allah

→ Mandarin: 印沙安拉 (yìnshā'ānlā)

→ Persian:

اِنشَاءَٱللّٰه

اِنشَاءَ اللّٰه

→ Classical Persian: اِنشَاءَٱللّٰه (in-šā'al-lāh), اِنشَاءَ اللّٰه (in-šā'a l-lāh)

اِنشَاءَ اللّٰه

اِنْشَاللّٰه

اِنْشَااَللّٰه

اِنشَاءَٱللّٰه

Dari: اِنشَاءَ اللّٰه (in-šā'a l-lāh), اِنْشَاللّٰه (inšāllāh), اِنْشَااَللّٰه (inšā'allāh), اِنشَاءَٱللّٰه (in-šā'al-lāh)

اِنشَاءَٱللّٰه

اِنْشَااَللّٰه

Iranian Persian: ایشَاللّٰه (išâllâh), اِنشَاءَٱللّٰه (en-šâ'al-lâh), اِنْشَااَللّٰه (enšâ'allâh)

Tajik: иншоаллоҳ (inšoalloh), иншоллоҳ (inšolloh)

→ Polish: inszallah

→ Russian: иншалла́х (inšalláx), иншалла́ (inšallá), иншаалла́х (inšaalláx), инша’Алла́ (inša’Allá)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: иншаллах

Latin script: inšallah

→ Spanish: insha'Allah

→ Turkish: inşallah

اِن شاء اَللّٰہ

اِنْشاءَاَللّٰہ

→ Urdu: اِن شاء اَللّٰہ (in śā' allāh), اِنْشاءَاَللّٰہ (inśā'āllāh)

→ Wolof: inchaalaaxu

مَا شَاءَ اللّٰه

mā šāʔa llāh

سَأَزُورُ أَقَارِبِي فِي مَدِينَةِ الرِّيَاضِ هَذَا الصَّيْفَ، إِنْ شَاءَ اللهُ.

I will visit my relatives in Riyadh this summer, God willing.

saʔazūru ʔaqāribī fī madīnati r-riyāḍi haḏā ṣ-ṣayfa, ʔin šāʔa llāhu.

فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ مَعَهُ ٱلسَّعْيَ قَالَ يَا بُنَيَّ إِنِّي أَرَى فِي ٱلْمَنَامِ أَنِّي أَذْبَحُكَ فَٱنْظُرْ مَاذَا تَرَى قَالَ يَا أَبَتِ ٱفْعَلْ مَا تُؤْمَرُ سَتَجِدُنِي إِنْ شَاءَ اللّٰهُ مِنَ ٱلصَّابِرِينَ

When he was old enough to assist in his endeavour, he said, "My son! I see in dreams that I am sacrificing you. See what you think." He said, "Father! Do whatever you have been commanded. If God wishes, you will find me to be patient."

falammā balaḡa maʕahu s-saʕya qāla yā bunayya ʔinnī ʔarā fī l-manāmi ʔannī ʔaḏbaḥuka fanẓur māḏā tarā qāla yā ʔabati fʕal mā tuʔmaru satajidunī ʔin šāʔa llāhu mina ṣ-ṣābirīna

God willing; inshallah, if it is God’s will (literally, “if God has willed [it]”)

بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ (bi-smi llāhi, “in the name of God”)

it is to be hoped; I hope; we hope so; hopefully


إن شاء الله

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إن شاء الله • (ʾinšālla)

/ʔinˈʃaːɫːa/

From Arabic إِنْ شَاءَ اَللَّه (ʔin šāʔa l-lah).

inh

إِنْ شَاءَ اَللَّه


FAB

Coined by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson for the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, from fab,
clipping of fabulous.

"Okay, FAB. Over and out."

1986, Márcio Souza, The order of the day: an unidentified flying opus:

It was great to report back to Mike and Jason on this knowing they were eager to hear that everything was operational. F.A.B. Virgil!

2011, Norman Beech, The Atlantic Job - A Dad and a Lad, FilamentPublishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 69:

“Understood. F.A.B., sir.” Their pilot hung the microphone back on its hook.

2013, Andrez Bergen, Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

(radio, telecommunications, humorous) Used to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood.


apua

Apua, en tiedä enää mitä sanoisin!

Oh God, I don't know what to say anymore!


hiljaa

From Proto-Finnic *hiljada, the partitive singular of *hilja (whence dialectal hilja).


aua

ouch (expression of one's own physical pain)


응

Probably an imitative form. Compare Japanese うん (“yeah”) and English mhm. Perhaps related to Middle Korean 에ᇰ (Yale: eyng).

안녕 조나단, 바빠? — 응, 난 바빠.
annyeong jonadan, bappa? - eung, nan bappa.
Hi, Jonathan. Are you busy? - Yes, I’m busy.
Original English texts from 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)


helo

Helo, awak di mana sekarang?


piekana

[ˈpie̞̯kɑ̝nɑ̝]

From a Sami language, compare Northern Sami biehkan, from Proto-Samic *piekkënjë.


iring

expression used as a reply expressing disapproval or disbelief to something heard


Einspruch

/ˈaɪ̯nʃpʁʊx/

15th century, verbal noun of archaic einsprechen (“to object”). Equivalent to ein- (“in”) + Spruch (“dictum, statement”).

affix

Einspruch, Euer Ehren! – Stattgegeben! / Abgelehnt!
Objection, Your Honor! – Sustained! / Overruled!

objection! (kind of protest in the court procedures of some countries)


à la bonne heure

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-à la bonne heure.wav

General expression of approval: splendid! that's the spirit! that's great!


這個

/ʈ͡ʂɤ⁵¹ g̊ə¹/

/ʈ͡ʂeɪ̯⁵¹ g̊ə¹/

/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴⁴ kə²⁴/

/t͡sɛː³⁵ kɔː³³/

/t͡sɛː¹³ kɔː³³/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ e²³/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ e²⁴/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁵ e¹³/

/t͡sit̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡe²⁴/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ ɡe²⁴/

/t͡sit̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡe⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡siak̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡe²⁴/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ e⁴⁴/

/t͡si(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ ɡe⁴⁴/

/t͡si(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ ɡe⁴⁴/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ le⁴⁴/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ le²⁴/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ le²³/

/t͡si⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ e²³/

/t͡si⁵³⁻⁴⁴ e²⁴/

/t͡si⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ɡe⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡sit̚⁵⁻²⁴ e⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡si⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ le²³/

/ʈ͡ʂɤ⁵¹ g̊ə¹/

/ʈ͡ʂeɪ̯⁵¹ g̊ə¹/

/ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁴⁴ kə²⁴/

/t͡sɛː³⁵ kɔː³³/

/t͡sɛː¹³ kɔː³³/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ e²³/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ e²⁴/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁵ e¹³/

/t͡sit̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡe²⁴/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ ɡe²⁴/

/t͡sit̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡe⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡siak̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡe²⁴/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ e⁴⁴/

/t͡si(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ ɡe⁴⁴/

/t͡si(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ ɡe⁴⁴/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ le⁴⁴/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ le²⁴/

/t͡sit̚³²⁻⁴ le²³/

/t͡si⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ e²³/

/t͡si⁵³⁻⁴⁴ e²⁴/

/t͡si⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ɡe⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡sit̚⁵⁻²⁴ e⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡si⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ le²³/


certeza

From certo (“certain; sure”) + -eza, from Old Galician-Portuguese certo, from Latin certus (“certain, fixed”).


certeza

asserting that something is certainly true; for sure


Kalle

Affix of the first letters in Karl, based on the non-rhotic pronunciation, Kal + (gemination) l + (hypocoristic suffix) -e.
Compare with Swedish male given name hypocoristic forming.

af

The letter "K" in the Swedish spelling alphabet


kahle

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kahle (to one person, to multiple people kahleni)


ужас

у́жас • (úžas)


ужас

у́жас • (úžas)

Inherited from Old East Slavic ужасъ (užasŭ), from Proto-Slavic *užasъ (“amazement, horror”).


молодца

head

молодца́! • (molodcá!)

молодца́! (canonical)
molodcá! (romanization)

[məɫɐˈt͡sːa]

[ˈmoɫət͡sːə]

молоде́ц! молодец#Russian

(slang, rare) Alternative form of молоде́ц! (molodéc!)


medet

From Ottoman Turkish مدد (meded, “help, aid, a helper, reinforcement, inter.; 'Help!'”), from Arabic مَدَد (madad, “help, assistance”).


точка

head

то́чка! • (tóčka!)

то́чка! (canonical)
tóčka! (romanization)

From Proto-Slavic *tъčьka. Cognate with Lithuanian taškas.


rồi

acknowledges an item in a list of requests, such as when taking an order


kuule

a greeting used when entering a home (usually used in response to káàbọ̀ (“welcome”))


vauhtia

[ˈʋɑ̝u̯ht̪iɑ̝]


spela roll

"Jag mötte ditt ex på stan igår..." — "Spela roll! Det är slut i vilket fall."

"I met your ex downtown yesterday..." — "I couldn't care less! (literally, "Matter!") It's over anyhow."

(slang) Couldn't care less!, That has absolutely no importance whatsoever!


пру

whoa (when commanding a horse or imitative thereof)


jakë

Either a compound of eja + këtu (“come here”), or an isolated imperative form (based on Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”)), cognate to Albanian iki.

(in the singular) Jakë këtu!

(in the plural) Jakëni këtu!


whoop-de-do

Oh, wait, they did give me a certificate of appreciation on January 29, 1983, after my 1,000th mile. Well, whoop-de-do!

2014, Eric Neumann, Let John Finger Do The Walking, page 234: