ไชโย

From ชัย (chai), ultimately from Sanskrit जय (jaya, “victory”). Cognate with Khmer ជយោ (cĕəʼyoo), Hindi जय हो (jay ho).


cuidado

From Old Galician-Portuguese cuidado, coidado, from Latin cōgitātus.


cuidado

Past participle of cuidar; corresponds to Latin cōgitātus.
The Philippine sense is a calque of Tagalog bahala, as in the expressions bahala ka, ako bahala, ikaw bahala, etc.


depende

Borrowed from Spanish depende, third-person singular present indicative of depender.


depende

[d̪ɛˈpɛn̪.d̪ɛ]


bite me

Circa the 1980s in the United States, likely from the phrase bite my ass.

She swiped at her tears with the palm of her hand, slipped his front-door key into the breast pocket of his leather suit jacket, whispered to the dead man, "Bite me, asshole."

2009, James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, The 8th Confession:

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

"We was talking and stuff, and I'm, like, I am SO not going there! And he just went, okay whatever, and I'm like FINE! Like I could care less, and then he goes, like, yeah bite me—"

2005, Ellen Notbohm, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew, page 37:

"I don't know, Tedd; can you sing without soap?" "Bite me."

2006 April 5, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Apr 5, 2006:

"Whatever. I'm going to go use your computer, see if Rhoda or Lucy are online." "Just be sure to stay out of the folder named 'Gender Studies' before eleven-fifty!" "Bite me."

2013 May 10, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, May 10, 2013:

(idiomatic, slang) A taunting phrase, essentially meaning "I don't care".

(idiomatic, slang) A command similar to "Leave me alone!", "Go away!" etc.


for God's sake

For God's sake, don't scare me like that!

Put some pants on, for God's sake!

“The structure is deteriorating. The roof was leaking. The floor is sinking,” Mr. Biden said in a speech in front of the tunnel, the oldest in the Northeast, where the crowd included dozens of union workers. “This is the United States of America, for God’s sake. We know better than that.”

2023 January 30, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Mark Walker, quoting Joe Biden, “Biden Visits Decrepit Rail Tunnel to Promote $1 Trillion Infrastructure Law”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-30, Politics:

An exclamation of anger, surprise, or impatience.

مِنْ أَجْلِ اللّٰهِ

“For God's sake!—quick!—quick!—put me to sleep—or, quick!—waken me!—quick!—I say to you that I am dead!”

1850 [1845], Edgar Allan Poe, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”, in The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe:

‘Utterson,’ said the voice, ‘for God's sake, have mercy!’

1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:

Indicating a heartfelt or urgent request.

Herran tähden

indicating a heartfelt or urgent request


對不起

unable to face [someone] (due to shame and guilt)

ㄉㄨㄟˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄑㄧˇ

/tu̯eɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ pu⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tu̯eɪ̯⁵¹ b̥u¹ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tɵy̯³³ pɐt̚⁵ hei̯³⁵/

/tuɪ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ put̚¹ hi³¹/

/tuei⁴⁵ pəʔ² t͡ɕʰi⁵³/

/tøy²¹³⁻²¹ puʔ²⁴⁻³⁵ kʰi³³/

/tui²¹⁻⁵³ put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰi⁵³/

/tui⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ put̚⁵⁻²⁴ kʰi⁵⁵⁴/

/tui²¹⁻⁵³ put̚³²⁻⁵ kʰi⁵³/

/tui¹¹⁻⁵³ put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰi⁵³/

/tui²¹⁻⁴¹ put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰi⁴¹/

/tu̯eɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ pu⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tu̯eɪ̯⁵¹ b̥u¹ t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tɵy̯³³ pɐt̚⁵ hei̯³⁵/

/tuɪ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ put̚¹ hi³¹/

/tuei⁴⁵ pəʔ² t͡ɕʰi⁵³/

/tøy²¹³⁻²¹ puʔ²⁴⁻³⁵ kʰi³³/

/tui²¹⁻⁵³ put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰi⁵³/

/tui⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ put̚⁵⁻²⁴ kʰi⁵⁵⁴/

/tui²¹⁻⁵³ put̚³²⁻⁵ kʰi⁵³/

/tui¹¹⁻⁵³ put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰi⁵³/

/tui²¹⁻⁴¹ put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰi⁴¹/

對不起，我們只收現金。

对不起，我们只收现金。

I am sorry. I am really sorry. Personally my attitude (towards this incident) is very clear: I will never give unprincipled protection to my child.

2010: “对不起！真的对不起！”

Duìbùqǐ! Zhēnde duìbùqǐ! Duìyú wǒ láishuō, wǒ de tàidù fēicháng míngquè, wǒ juébù tǎnhù wǒ de háizǐ!

對不起！真的對不起！對於我來說，我的態度非常明確，我絕不袒護我的孩子！

2010: “对不起！真的对不起！”

对不起！真的对不起！对于我来说，我的态度非常明确，我绝不袒护我的孩子！


ent

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of então.


oh dear

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Oh dear, I seem to have lost my ticket.

“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

An expression of dismay, concern, worry or disapproval.


সালাম

Borrowed from Classical Persian سلام (salām), from Arabic سَلَام (salām). Cognate with Hindustani سَلَام / सलाम (salām), Punjabi ਸਲਾਮ (salām) / سَلام (salām), Sindhi سَلامُ (salāmu), Gujarati સલામ (salām), Marathi सलाम (salām), Telugu సలాము (salāmu).


hé

Hé, kijk uit waar je loopt!


hé

(colloquial) Used to express surprise; eh

Tu es Canadien, hé?

(Canada) Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener confirm or agree with what has been said.


hé

Dózsa György unokája vagyok én, ¶ Népért síró, bús, bocskoros nemes. ¶ Hé, nagyurak, jó lesz tán szóbaállni ¶ Kaszás népemmel, mert a Nyár heves.
I, the grandson of György Dózsa, ¶ a sad peasant-noble, must cry out for my people’s lot. ¶ Ah, you masters, great landlords, perhaps you would speak ¶ to my scythe-bearing people—for the summer is hot.

1907, Endre Ady, Dózsa György unokája (The Grandson of György Dózsa), poem, lines 1–4, trans. by Sir Maurice Bowra

hey (grabbing the attention of someone, possibly with the intent of warning)


hot damn

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(Canada, US) A minced oath from "god damn".


merhaba

mȅrhāba (canonical)
ме̏рха̄ба (Cyrillic)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مرحبا (merhaba), borrowed from Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban).


merhaba

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مرحبا (merhaba, “hello”), from Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban, “hello, welcome”).


위

Probably imitative. Compare English oi, Japanese おい (oi).

爲(위〯) 四(ᄉᆞ〯)海(ᄒᆡ〯) 天(텬)下(하〯) 無(업〯)豆(두〮)舍叱(샷)多(다〮)

1330, 안축/安軸 [An Chuk], 關東別曲/관동별곡 [Gwandong byeolgok, Song of the Lands East of the Pass]:

O, it does not exist [anywhere else] between the four seas under Heaven!

아바님도 어이어신 마ᄅᆞᄂᆞᆫ
위 덩더둥셩
어마님 ᄀᆞ티 괴시리 업세라

16th century [14th century?], “[思母曲/사모곡] [Jeongseok-ga]”, in 樂章歌詞/악장가사 [Akjang gasa]:

My father is my parent, too
wuy tengtetwungsyeng
But there is none to love me like my mother does.

An interjection which appears in certain poems.


feur

(chiefly Internet, humorous) a humorous response to the word quoi (what) or pourquoi (why), as "quoi feur" sounds identical to the word coiffeur (hairdresser).


嘿咻

/xeɪ̯⁵⁵ ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/

/xeɪ̯⁵⁵ ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/

Yoisho, yoisho, yoisho, yoisho, dokkoisho, dokkoisho

葉啟田《素蘭小姐要出嫁》

嘿咻嘿咻嘿咻嘿咻 落蓋咻 落蓋咻

葉啟田《素蘭小姐要出嫁》

嘿咻嘿咻嘿咻嘿咻 落盖咻 落盖咻

劈哩叭啦抬轎嘿咻嘿咻

劈哩叭啦抬轿嘿咻嘿咻

(Taiwan) Used as a rhythmic chant during laborious work.


animas

an expression of anger, disgust, dismay, etc.


hy

(vocative, before the name of the person called) O, hey, hail


افسوس

head

افسوس • (afsôs)

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾp̄sws /afsōs/).


اچھا

pa-interj

اَچّھا • (acchā) (Gurmukhi spelling ਅੱਛਾ)

اَچّھا (canonical)
acchā (romanization)
ਅੱਛਾ (Gurmukhi)


اچھا

اَچّھا (canonical)
acchā (romanization)
अच्छा (Hindi)

/ət̪.t͡ʃʰɑː/

Borrowed from Punjabi اَچّھا (acchā) / ਅੱਛਾ (acchā).


अच्छा

/ət̪.t͡ʃʰɑː/

[ɐt̚.t͡ʃʰäː]

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀅𑀘𑁆𑀙 (accha) without compensatory lengthening, from Sanskrit अच्छ (accha). Displaced Hindi आछा (āchā), from the same source. Cognate with Punjabi ਅੱਛਾ (acchā).

अच्छा! तो मैं सही था!

oh! (often with stress on the final syllable)


canté

Unknown. Attested since the 18th century. Cognate with rural northern Portuguese canté.

Ahi vay esa esmoliña
p'rá à virxen à empregà
que che lla dou de boa mentes;
¡cantè quen poidera mais!

1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

There it goes this little alms,
Apply it to the Virgin
because I give it to her willingly
If only I could give more!


chapó

Borrowed from French chapeau, from Early Medieval Latin cappellus. Doublet of the inherited capillo, and of capelo (from Italian), as well as chapeo, also from the French word.

Chapó, señor.


cata

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

Ay Jan cata non te enfermes, nen sentencies con malicia, cata que a yalma perdes.

1594, anonymous author, Entremés dos pastores:

Oh, Xan, look, don't get sick, or sentence with malice; watch out, because you are loosing the soul

Dime algùnha còusa dòce
como habes doito, é catá,
que si así no no fazèdes,
me escatìmo, évelo hàs.
Ven sabedes, vaiche bòa!
como estas cousas se fàn,
è madia tendes, senon
eu êime de encabuxar.

Tell me something sweet
As you use to, but beware,
if you don't do it like that
I'll take offence, you'll see.
You know well, it could not be otherwise,
how these things are done,
no doubt about it, or else
I'll get angry

Eu apureime a meter unha tallada de roscón na boca para non ter que brindar con eles por unha causa que se me facía odiosa. Máis dun botoume unha ollada de esguello pero disimulei facendome o distraído. ¡Cata que xa as pagaredes todas xuntas!

2005, Hixinio Puentes, Aguillóns do Ortegal, page 271:

I hurried to put a serving of cake in my mouth, so I don't have to toast with them for a cause that was hateful to me. More than one gazed at me askance, but I dissembled playing the distracted one. Take care, you'll pay them all together!


cul sec

bottoms up (a toast used when drinking alcohol)


ضرور

ضُرُور (canonical)
zurūr (romanization)
ज़रूर (Hindi)

Borrowed from Classical Persian ضرور (zurūr), from Arabic ضُرُور (ḍurūr).


ज़रूर

Borrowed from Classical Persian ضرور (zarūr), from Arabic ضَرُور (ḍarūr). Compare Punjabi ਜ਼ਰੂਰ (zarūr).


आदाब

Borrowed from Classical Persian آداب (ādāb), from Arabic آدَاب (ʔādāb), plural of أَدَب (ʔadab).


آداب

Borrowed from Classical Persian آدَاب (ādāb), from Arabic آدَاب (ʔādāb).


gads

From God, originally used as an oath or curse word and later expanded to a general expression of disgust.

I’m not lookin at that, gads.


boas

(interjection) Shortening of bos días (“good morning”), boas tardes (“good afternoon/evening”) and boas noites (“good evening/night”)


boas

(Portugal) hey, what's up? (informal greeting)


caracoles

wow, euphemism for caramba and therefore of carajo


wowsers

“Wowsers, you look amazing!”

2009, Elle Kennedy, Heat of the Storm, page 44:


glubs

gulp (Indication of an involuntary fear reaction)


fije

(Spain, dated, slang) cool!, great!, groovy!


grabe

Borrowed from Spanish grave, from Latin gravis. See also bruto, gulo, and guro.

Grabe! Nanalo ka ulit sa lotto?

Grabe! Wala ka talagang kuwenta!

expression of astonishment at the gravity or outrageousness of the situation: whoa! wow!


graba

(colloquial) used as the linguistic equivalent of shaking hands


alstublieft

Berbice Creole Dutch: asblifu

Skepi Creole Dutch: asublifi

A contraction and univerbation of als + het + u + belieft, literally “if it pleases you”. Calque of French s’il vous plaît.

univerbation

(formal) here you are (when handing something to someone else)


GDI

(euphemistic, slang, rare) Abbreviation of goddamn it.


hoor

The interjection comes from hoor je (“do you hear?”).

Straks komen we nog te laat! — Nee hoor, we hebben nog genoeg tijd.

We'll be late! — Nah, surely not, we have plenty of time.

Wilt u het bonnetje? — Nee hoor, bedankt.

Zeg maar 'jij' hoor.

Lekker weertje hoor.

Chef, halte hoor. (Suriname)

Driver, I'd like to get off the bus here.

modal particle indicating reassurance or confidence from the speaker: certainly, surely, at all, but often weak and untranslatable

De kou valt best mee. — Nou, ik vind het toch wel koud hoor!

The cold isn't so bad. — Well, I still think it's pretty cold regardless!

modal particle indicating disagreement or a certain nuance with an earlier statement: regardless, despite that, anyway, you know


graag

From Middle Dutch gradig (“desirous, willing”), from Old Dutch *grādag (“desirous, hungry”), from Proto-West Germanic *grādag, from Proto-Germanic *grēdagaz (“hungry”).

inh

"Wilt u nog een kopje thee?" "Ja, graag."

"Would you like another cup of tea?" "Yes, please."


carps

From clipping of English carpet + -s. Carpets are sometimes interchangeable with rugs, and rugs when spelled as “R-U-G”, sounds like “Are you G?”. See G for more details.

are you in? (question asking if a person would be willing or wanting to participate in an activity)


bests

* (end to a letter) Perhaps short for "best regards and best wishes".

(rare) A polite, formulaic end to a letter or email.


yoinks

Yoinks. I braced myself for the worst, my brain already screaming for coffee. "We've had a discussion, and we thought we should tell you something.” Cancer? Bankruptcy? Double yoinks. "What's wrong?”

2010, Douglas Coupland, Generation A, →ISBN, page 12:

“Yoinks, the first mystery I've ever actually wanted to solve and this is the one you guys pick not to wrap up within a half hour.

2011, Grant Guimont, Hot Wings & Rug Burns, →ISBN:

She crossed her eyes and stuck out her tongue, holding an imaginary noose above her neck. “Yoinks,” I said. “Yoinks indeed, but what did she expect?

2012, Tom Ryan, Way to Go, →ISBN, page 64:

Yoinks and gadzooks at what I did see! Yoinks as I watched the display! Yoinks and away such feathered artistry! Yoinks you would have the same say!

2016, Alliance Poets World-Wide, Poetry To Embrace with Love Book Three, →ISBN, page 109:

Used for emphasis to express strong emotion


hacks

(gaming) Used to call attention to another player hacking


jinks

We scrubbed 'em with horse-brushes on the stones. Jinks, but I rubbed some holes in 'em!

1924, D. H. Lawrence, The Boy in the Bush:

Indication of surprise or amazement; jinkies.


עט

an expression of disdain; so what! it’s of no consequence!


rhubarb rhubarb

Chosen as a word for producing indistinct background noise because it contains no very sharp or recognizable phonemes: see rhubarb (“noise”).

Those glottals glugged like poured pop, each /rebarbative syllable, remembrancer, raise /‘mob' rhubarb-rhubarb to a tribune's speech /crossing the crackle as the hayracks blaze...

1981: Tony Harrison, The Rhubarbarians I in collection Continuous: 50 sonnets from 'The School of Eloquence' . Rex Collings, London (1981)

(stage direction) They all rise and drink. Rhubarb, rhubarb...To convey the next stage of To convey the next stage of general inebriation, the remarks that follow are spoken in a sing-song.

1983, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Victory Celebrations:

(film stage direction) Pan to a shot of the crowd of humanists surging forward and murmuring "Rhubarb, rhubarb".

1995, Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Masterpiece Theatre: An Academic Melodrama:

(film) Background noise of simultaneous conversations, none of which is decipherable since the actors are repeating the word rhubarb or other words with similar attributes.

Human beings and human speech are historical inventions as well: our actual experience for long enough was of ‘ourselves', the local tribes of people, dogs and horses, and of the ‘others', theria (wild beasts) and barbaroi (who make noises that only vaguely sound like speech, as "rhubarb, rhubarb").

1997, Stephen R L Clark, Animals and Their Moral Standing:

‘Barbarians' who made noises which sounded like ‘rhubarb-rhubarb' to Greeks who could not (and did not want to) understand them.

1998, Richard Wallace, Wynne Williams, The Three Worlds of Paul of Tarsus:

I heard my name amongst so much mumbo jumbo. “Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, Robert.”

2005, Robert Leslie Fielding, Other People Other Worlds: The Collected Short Stories of Robert Leslie Fielding:

(derogatory) Speech which is undecipherable to the listener because it is in a language he or she does not understand; mumbo jumbo.

Not allowed to blah blah blah rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb. Just what I don't need when I'm feeling kind of seedy.

1998, Brigid Lowry, Guitar Highway Rose:

Judith recruited me as the voice of the grass roots. I said rhubarb, rhubarb to oblige her, but I felt like a charlatan. I had mobilized out of a genuine sense of outrage at Cathy's treatment, but the demand to enter the Oxford Union was another matter.

2001, Sheila Rowbotham, Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties:

All tutors and examiners are familiar with the essay which begins, in effect, 'All the poets of the seventeenth century said, "Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb," and in this Marvell was no exception.'

2005, Judith Woolf, Writing About Literature: Essay and Translation Skills for University Students of English and foreign literature.:


გამარჯობა

head

გამარჯობა • (gamarǯoba)

desc

→ Mingrelian: გომორძგუა (gomorʒgua) (semantic loan)

გა‧მარ‧ჯო‧ბა

Ultimately from გამარჯვება (gamarǯveba, “victory, triumph”). Compare similar, but opposing development in Georgian წარმატებები (c̣armaṭebebi, “successes; goodbye”).

noncog

there you go (Expressing that the conclusion is the same as it was suggested before)


égua

From Old Galician-Portuguese égua, egua, egoa, from Latin equa. Compare Spanish yegua (“mare”).

(Brazil, colloquial, regional) fucking hell, Jesus H. Christ, bloody hell, fuck, shit, crikey (interjection of astonishment and difficulty)


բարև

→ Romani: paraven

From Old Armenian բարեաւ (bareaw, literally “with good”), the instrumental case of բարի (bari, “good”).

uder

բարև ձեզ

բարև Ձեզ

hello! (formal: addressed to a single unfamiliar person)

hello!, hi! (addressed to a single familiar person)


maje

Maje, ¿vas a venir ahora o no?

(colloquial, El Salvador) dude! (said to a man)


miré

Apocopic form of mireddi (“look!”), 2ⁿᵈ-person plural imperative form of mirà (“to look; to look at”).

look out! watch out! (addressing multiple people)


diddle

From dialectal duddle (“to trick”) (16th century), and diddle, duddle (“to totter”) (17th century), perhaps dissimilated from dialectal didder, dither (“to shake, tremble”), from Middle English dideren (“to shake, quiver, tremble”) and Middle English bididren (“to seduce, deceive”), from Old English bedidrian, bedyderian (“to trick, deceive”). Compare also Saterland Frisian diedelje (“to play or sing without a melody”), Dutch bedodden, bedotten (“to trick, fool, diddle”), German Low German Diedeldentjes (“pranks, pranking”). Possibly influenced or reinforced by the name (which itself was probably chosen as an allusion to duddle) of the swindling character Jeremy Diddler in Kenney's Raising the Wind (1803).
Meaning "to have sex with" is from the 19th century; "to masturbate" is from the 1950s. Compare dildo.

cog

What's that tune that goes "diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum-dum"?

A meaningless word used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.


socorro

help! (cry for help in a state of danger)

(ironic, humorous) oh my god! (expression of surprise or awe)


socorro

Deverbal from socorrer. Compare English succor.


tomara

A: Você conseguiu tirar uma boa nota na prova de matemática?
B: tomara!
A: Did you manage to get a good grade on the math test?
B: I hope so!


eils

From Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, healthy”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”). Compare Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (hails).

der

c.390, De conviviis barbaris
Inter eils Gothicum scapia matzia ia drincan / non audet quisquam dignos educere versus.

Between the Gothic [cries] “Hail” and “Let’s get [something to] eat and drink” / nobody dares to put forth decent verses.


scrogneugneu

/skʁɔ.ɲø.ɲø/

Euphemistic alteration of sacré nom de Dieu (“holy name of God”).

(minced oath) blast, dash it all, dagnabbit


아니

From Middle Korean 아니〮 (aní), from Old Korean 不知 (*ANti).

아니, 이게 웬일이냐?


아니

Korean: 아니 (ani, “no”)

From Old Korean 不知 (*ANti).
The Old Korean form was strictly a particle used to negate nouns. The adverbial sense was an innovation, in which 아니 displaced the older adverb 不冬 (*ANtol).


okey-dokey

Reduplication and modification of okay. First attested in the 1930s.

(colloquial) An exclamation of accordance; okay, OK.


kryss

From Middle Low German krü̂ze, from Old Saxon krūci; ultimately from Latin crux.
Sense 5 from the 1-X-2 (Home-Tie-Away) system commonly found on Swedish betting coupons.

The letter "X" in the Swedish spelling alphabet; an alternative spelling word for Xerxes


my arse

Does this circuitous process of misinformation display the ‘liquid clearness of an Ionian sky’? My arse it does.

2015, Colin Burrow, “The Empty Bath”, in London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:

Denise: Dad! Your fly hole's all undone.
Jim: Ah, the cage might be open, but the beast is asleep.
Barbara: Beast my arse.

1999 September 30, Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, Carmel Morgan, The Royle Family, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Denise Royle, Jim Royle, and Barbara Royle (Caroline Aherne, Ricky Tomlinson, and Sue Johnston):

(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, sometimes vulgar) Indicates incredulous disapproval, contradiction or disbelief.

個屁

Indicates disapproval, disregard or disbelief


viste

No sabía qué decirle, ¿viste?

I didn't know what to tell her, you know?

(interrogatively, informal, Rioplatense) Used as a space filler, usually in the middle of a sentence, or when telling a story.


lá breithe maith agat

/l̪ˠɑː bʲɾʲɛhə mˠa ˈaɡət̪ˠ/


shana tova

From Hebrew שָׁנָה טוֹבָה (shaná tová, “Happy New Year”, literally “good year”).

bor

שָׁנָה טוֹבָה

(Judaism) Happy New Year; a common greeting on and around Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.


boum

Imitative. The spelling variant boom is borrowed from English.

onomatopoeic

Imitative


zut alors

darn! dang! damn! (used to express mild surprise)


so there

Oh, yeah? Well, that's not physically possible for me to do! So there!

(idiomatic, childish) Used to express one's defiance.


quod erat demonstrandum

quod erat demonstrandum
quod erat demonstrandum#English


grow up

Dissimilated from Middle English upgrowen.

You're giggling because I said "butt"? Grow up, seriously.

Grow up! The Bible is nothing more than a astrotheological allegory for things like the Sun!

(imperative) Used to criticize childish behavior, especially that considered unreasonable for one's age.


crac

Imitative


blah blah blah

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Oh blah blah blah. Just be quiet!

A put-down to silence someone who would otherwise not stop talking.

I went to go out, but couldn't find my keys; blah blah blah, my toddler had hidden them in his snow boots.

A stand-in for trivial, obvious, or boring content.

blablabla

a stand-in for trivial, obvious, or boring content


hee

"Good evening, Kristen," said I; "what are you telling that creates such fun?" "Hee, hee, hee!" screamed the youngsters, with great glee depicted in their faces; "Kristen has told us about the smith and the devil, and then about the lad who got him into the nut, and now he says he's going to tell us about Peter Sannum, whose horse the fairies stopped on the Asmyr hill."

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 251:

(onomatopoeia) An expression of laughter.

Hyde: (Leaps from desk. LADY BUGG runs behind the sofa. HYDE follows.) Hee, hee, hee! LADY BUGG: Help! Murder! Police!

1995, Tim Kelly, Dr. Jekyll.. Please Don't Hyde!, page 14:

Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!

1999, Mona the Vampire, "Attack of the Living Scarecrow" (season 1, episode 1a)

Listen! Fire Thunder sprang from the back of the dying pony to the back of a passing buffalo! Hee-hee! He landed facing the tail! He grabbed that tail and twisted it and made his buffalo go wherever he wanted to go. Hee-hee!

2003, Walter Wangerin, The Crying for a Vision, page 14:

(rare) Said accompanying a vigorous attack.


for fuck's sake

Dysphemistically modeled after for Christ's sake. The word fuck is personified.

For fuck’s sake, mate! Stop shooting at me!

For fuck’s sake, shut Nicola up!

For fuck’s sake, who’s this tosh?

(idiomatic, colloquial, vulgar) An expression of anger or frustration.

да го еба

expressing anger, frustration, subtle annoyance


μου

(onomatopoeia) moo; the characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.


crivvens

Borrowed from Scots crivvens. Attested in English from the early 20th century.

Jings, crivvens an' help ma boab!

(Scotland, chiefly Dundee) An exclamation of astonishment or horror.


crivvens

From earlier criffins, a euphemistic alteration of Christ fend us. Attested from the late 19th century.

Crivvens, his boabs lang past helpin noo.


chwila

→ Belarusian: хві́ля (xvílja)

→ Kashubian: chwila

→ Ukrainian: хви́ля (xvýlja)

Inherited from Old Polish chwila. Compare Czech chvíle, English while, German Weile.

(colloquial) wait a minute, wait a moment, wait a second (used when the speaker expects to refrain from speaking or acting for a short time)


my goodness

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My goodness, what a loud noise!

(US, Canada, minced oath) Used to express surprise, shock, or amazement.

mijn God

used to express surprise, shock, or amazement


pá

Shortening of rapaz (“boy”), from earlier paz.

Ena, pá!


pá

Resolvemos uns assuntos e pá!


już

Na mój znak wszyscy skaczą. Już!

Ile tej soli? Już, wystarczy!


dere

African-American Vernacular, New York City

Nonstandard spelling of there, reflecting any of a variety of accents with th-stopping.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


battle stations

(nautical) An alert aboard a warship, summoning the crew to man all weapons and all stations.

klart skib

order that prepares a battleship for combat


pista

→ French: piste (see there for further descendants)

Variant of pesta (“footprint”), technical senses influenced by French piste.


skit ner dig

(idiomatic, vulgar) go fuck yourself (literally, "shit your pants")


айда

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айда́ • (ajdá)

Supposedly from Tatar әйдә (äydä) or a cognate term from some other Turkic language. Related to Serbo-Croatian hajde.
Not to be confused with ай да (aj da), which is a compliment.

Хва́тит рабо́тать, айда́ по дома́м.

Айда́ в футбо́л.

А господа́ ме́жду тем гуля́ли-гуля́ли, да и догуля́лись. Догуля́лись и говоря́т друг дру́гу: «Тепе́рь нам гуля́ть бо́льше не на что; айда́ домо́й кисе́ль есть!»

1855, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин [Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin], Кисель; English translation from (Please provide a date or year):

A gospodá méždu tem guljáli-guljáli, da i doguljálisʹ. Doguljálisʹ i govorját drug drúgu: «Tepérʹ nam guljátʹ bólʹše ne na što; ajdá domój kisélʹ jestʹ!»

Мы поруга́лись, он собра́л вещи́чки и айда́.

We had a quarrel, then he got his belongings and left.

My porugálisʹ, on sobrál veščíčki i ajdá.

(colloquial) made off; dashed away; vanished


cristo

From Latin Christus, from Ancient Greek Χριστός (Khristós), proper noun use of χριστός (khristós, “the anointed one”), a calque of Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšīaḥ, “anointed”) (see also messia).

(informal, mildly vulgar) express anger, astonishment, frustration etc.


cresta

Inherited from Latin crista. Doublet of crista.


так

From Proto-Slavic *tako. Compare Ukrainian так (tak), Polish tak.


так

From Proto-Slavic *tako. Compare Belarusian так (tak), Polish tak.


shalom aleichem

/ʃəˌlɒm əˈleɪxəm/

/ʃəˌlɒm əˈleɪkəm/

/ˌʃɔləm əˈleɪkəm/

From Hebrew שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם (shalóm 'aleikhém, “peace be upon you”). Doublet of salaam alaikum.

der

שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם

(Judaism) A greeting said on meeting someone, especially when the two people meeting have not met in some time.


tiens

used to show uncertainty; like, you know

said when giving something to someone; here


пока

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пока́ • (poká)

Related to Ukrainian поки (poky), Belarusian пакуль (pakulʹ), Polish póki, from по (po)+кꙑи (kyi), in Russian with analogous formation after
дока (doka), пота (pota) (Vasmer 1958).
(Interjection): Short of прощай пока (proščaj poka, “farewell so long”) or пока до свидания (poka do svidanija). Used since the early 20th century first as colloquial, thereafter as familiar. May be a calque from some other language, compare English so long (used since 19th century) and Swedish hej så länge.

(familiar) bye; so long; I’ll see you later; see you soon.


失禮

/ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/sɐt̚⁵ lɐi̯¹³/

/ʃit⁵⁻² li⁵³/

/siʔ²⁴⁻³⁵ l̃ɛ³³/

/sit̚³²⁻⁴ le⁵³/

/sit̚⁵⁻²⁴ le⁵⁵⁴/

/sit̚³²⁻⁵ le⁵³/

/sit̚³²⁻⁴ le⁵³/

/sit̚³²⁻⁴ le⁴¹/

/səʔ³³ li⁴⁴/

/ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/sɐt̚⁵ lɐi̯¹³/

/ʃit⁵⁻² li⁵³/

/siʔ²⁴⁻³⁵ l̃ɛ³³/

/sit̚³²⁻⁴ le⁵³/

/sit̚⁵⁻²⁴ le⁵⁵⁴/

/sit̚³²⁻⁵ le⁵³/

/sit̚³²⁻⁴ le⁵³/

/sit̚³²⁻⁴ le⁴¹/

/səʔ³³ li⁴⁴/

(chiefly Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka) I'm sorry; excuse me


lots of love

An informal formula to end a letter to relatives, close friends or romantic partners, etc.


azar

From Arabic الزَهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Italian zara and French hasard.

“As crianças na África estão morrendo de fome!” “Azar.”

“Children in Africa are starving to death!” “Tough luck.”

“Cara, você pode morrer se fizer isso.” “Azar.”

“Dude, you could die if you do this.” “I don’t care.”

tough luck; big deal; I don’t care (indicates that the speaker doesn’t care about the negative consequences mentioned)


banzai

From Japanese 万歳(ばんざい) (banzai, “long live..., huzzah, hurrah”), from Middle Chinese 萬歲 (mʉɐnᴴ siuᴇiᴴ), from Old Chinese 萬歲 (*mans s-qʷʰats, “10,000 years [of life]”, i.e. “immortality”), from 萬／万 (wàn, “10,000”) 歲／岁 (suì, “year (of age)”).
Compare Mandarin 萬歲／万岁 (wànsùi).

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10,000 years 􂀿of life􂁀”, i.e. “immortality

zh-l

萬歲／万岁 (wànsùi)

A cry or cheer of enthusiasm, or to celebrate victory.


værsågod

vær (“be”, imperative) så (“so”) god (“good”)


不要客氣

ㄅㄨˋ ㄧㄠˋ ㄎㄜˋ ㄑㄧˋ

/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ jɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ kʰɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/

/pɐt̚⁵ jiːu̯³³ haːk̚³ hei̯³³/

/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ jɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ kʰɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/

/pɐt̚⁵ jiːu̯³³ haːk̚³ hei̯³³/


porra

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Porra! Para com isso, porra!

(informal or vulgar, intensifier) fuck; crap (remark of anger and an unwelcome surprise)


porra

From Latin porrum (“leek”). Compare English porray (“a type of stew”), as well as English porridge.


不用謝

ㄅㄨˋ ㄩㄥˋ ㄒㄧㄝˋ

/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

/pɐt̚⁵ jʊŋ²² t͡sɛː²²/

/put̚¹ iʊŋ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ t͡sʰia⁵³/

/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

/pɐt̚⁵ jʊŋ²² t͡sɛː²²/

/put̚¹ iʊŋ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ t͡sʰia⁵³/

No need to thank me — it's been a pleasure.

不用謝，這是我應該的。

不用谢，这是我应该的。

GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)


ебать

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еба́ть • (jebátʹ)

еба́ть (canonical)
jebátʹ (romanization)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jebàti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *jebtei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃yébʰeti, from *h₃yebʰ-. Cognate with Ancient Greek οἴφω (oíphō), Sanskrit यभति (yabhati).
Compare Czech jebat, Polish jebać, Ukrainian їба́ти (jibáty), Serbo-Croatian јебати.

Еба́ть ты

Holy shit, you (have done something surprising)

(vulgar, swear word) expressing surprise, holy shit, what the fuck

Еба́ть, коне́й, еба́ть!

Fuck off, studs, fuck off! (football chant)

(vulgar, swear word) fuck you!; fuck off!


skål

From Old Norse skál (“bowl”), Proto-Germanic *skēlō. Also compare Dutch schaal.


skål

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


heave-ho

Heave ho! up they hoisted their prize, dripping with moisture, and festooned with verdant water-moss.

1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “A Bell's Biography”, in The Snow Image and Other Twice Told Tales:

An exclamation used when pulling, especially by sailors while pulling on a rope.


Sigurd

The letter "S" in the Swedish spelling alphabet


kthxbye

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From k + thx + bye, literally “OK thanks bye”.

af

Once they tell me that rubbish, it's, "Date's over, kthxbye."

2006, Karina, “But What Man Can Tame Her?”, in PC Gamer, volume 13, numbers 7-9 (letter to the editor):

“Your 15 minutes are up, Audrey. kthxbye.”

2008, Robin Benway, Audrey, Wait!, Razorbill (2008), →ISBN:

Much to the dismay of those who failed to acquire tickets quickly enough, the festival’s verified Twitter account cockily announced, “no we don’t have any passes left to release, kthxbye.”

2011 March 8, Will Hagle, “Festival sales could save the failing live music industry”, in Daily Trojan, University of Southern California:

(Internet slang) Used to express (as though facetiously polite) the dismissive or abrupt end of a conversation, statement, etc.


thanks a million

Shortening of "thank you a million times"

Smith taking leave gently on the grey porch. With a thanks a million. One is enough stranger. And stepping down three steps to the hard path underneath the three great trees at the fork of this road. Turning to look back. The shadow standing in the light of the hall, gun at port arms.

1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 186:

χίλια ευχαριστώ (chília efcharistó, literally “a thousand thanks”)


God Save the Queen

(UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand) An expression of one’s patriotism and hope for the long life of the monarch, especially in her presence.

(UK) A formal statement at the end of many proclamations issued by the UK's queen or in her name.

The King is dead! God save the Queen!

(UK) A formal declaration following the death of a reigning monarch when the next monarch is female.


옳다

First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 옳다 (Yale: wolhta). Compared with Mongolian ортой (ortoj), ᠣᠷᠤᠲᠠᠢ (orutai, “right, true”), Manchu ᡠᡵᡠ (uru, “truth, true”), Nivkh урдь (urd̦, “to be good”), Tamil உள் (uḷ, “to be, to have”) > உள்ள (uḷḷa, “real, true”) by Gang (2010). The h in the stem may be from 하— (ha-, “to do”), akin to 많— (man-, “many”).

ko-etym-native

옳다, 이제 알았다.


hoʻomaikaʻi

hoʻo- (causative / transitive prefix) + maikaʻi (“good, fine”).


черт

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черт • (čort)

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чёрт

чёрт • (čort)


то-то

то́-то • (tó-to)

то́ -то (canonical)
tó-to (romanization)

Ну согласи́сь же, я права́! — Ла́дно, права́. — Вот то́-то же!
Nu soglasísʹ že, ja pravá! — Ládno, pravá. — Vot tó-to že!
Come on, just say I'm right. — Fine, you are. — There we go!

(colloquial) Aha!, That's it!, There we go! What did I tell you?


不用客氣

ㄅㄨˋ ㄩㄥˋ ㄎㄜˋ ㄑㄧˋ

ㄅㄨˋ ㄩㄥˋ ㄎㄜˋ ˙ㄑㄧ

/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ kʰɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/

/pu⁵¹⁻⁵³ jʊŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ kʰɤ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi¹/

/pɐt̚⁵ jʊŋ²² haːk̚³ hei̯³³/

/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ kʰɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/

/pu⁵¹⁻⁵³ jʊŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ kʰɤ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi¹/

/pɐt̚⁵ jʊŋ²² haːk̚³ hei̯³³/


أهلا وسهلا

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أَهْلًا وَسَهْلًا

أَهْلًا وَسَهْلًا • (ʔahlan wasahlan)

أَهْلًا وَ سَهْلًا (canonical)
ʔahlan wasahlan (romanization)

→ Finnish: ähläm sähläm

→ Finnish: ählämi

Shortening of longer phrase لَقَدْ صَادَفْتُمْ أَهْلًا وَوَطِئْتُمْ سَهْلًا (laqad ṣādaftum ʔahlan wa-waṭiʔtum sahlan, “You have come across your own people and you have trodden on even ground”).


أهلا وسهلا

From Arabic أَهْلًا وَسَهْلًا (ʔahlan wasahlan).

inh

أَهْلًا وَسَهْلًا


أهلا وسهلا

أَهْلًا وَسَهْلًا

you're welcome (as a reply to شكرا (šukran, “thank you”))


va-va-voom

The first documented use of the phrase is on the April 21, 1949 episode of The Morey Amsterdam Show. Art Carney portrays "Newton the waiter" in a sketch and uses the phrase. He later recorded a song entitled "Va Va Va Voom" (1954). It was popularized a year later by car mechanic Nick in the Hollywood classic Kiss Me Deadly (1955), which helped the catchphrase to be remembered and reused many decades later in advertisements and pop songs.

(slang) Expressing that something is lively, sexy, passionate, or exciting.


hooah

Platoon Leader: Listen up, gentlemen - tomorrow's a rest and refit day, hooah?

Soldiers: Hooah!

(US, military) The official yell of the US Army.


чорт

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чорт • (čort)


чорт

чорт • (čort)


otur

Otur!


nja

Blend of nej (“no”), and ja (“yes”). Compare German jein.

Used to give a hesitant or uncertain answer or (dis)agreement; neither yes nor no; both yes and no; "well …", leaning slightly towards the negative.


fiti

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


poot

Americanism, probably onomatopoeic, or connected to poop. Compare toot.

"Oh, poot! I missed again," she complained with a pretty pout.

1994, Pamela Morsi, Runabout, Thorndike, M.E.: G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 37:

A mild expression of disgust or frustration.


tanke

Ultimately from a form of Proto-Germanic *þankaz.


maholla

Maholla, want to hit the beach?


chimo

From Inuktitut ᓴᐃᒧ (saimo, “goodbye; peace be with you”).


cucù

Borrowed from Old French cucu, imitative of the call.

onomatopoeic

imitative


Selah

Biblical Hebrew סֶלָה (selāh); according to some scholars, from סָלָה (salah, “to hang”, implying “to weigh”, “to measure”).


呵呵

/hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/

/hɔː⁵⁵ hɔː⁵⁵/

Onomatopoeic. Compare English haha. Partly replaced by modern 哈哈 (hāhā) due to sound shift 呵 (MC xa) > 呵 (hē).

Recently I wrote some little ci poems. Though hardly comparable to Mister Liu's style, they're in my own character. Haha!

c. late 11th century, Su Shi (蘇軾), Letter to Xianyu Zijun (《與鮮于子駿》)

Jìn zuò xiǎocí, suīwú Liǔ Qīláng fēngwèi, yì zìshì yījiā. Hēhē!

近作小詞，雖無柳七郎風味，亦自是一家。呵呵！

近作小词，虽无柳七郎风味，亦自是一家。呵呵！

呵呵，你不行。

(onomatopoeia, ironic) sound of derisive or perfunctory laughter


motus

From mot with a fanciful Latinisation in -us.

(colloquial) interjection to request silence; Hush!, Quiet!


안녕

Sino-Korean word from 安寧, from 安 (“peaceful, tranquil, quiet”) + 寧 (“repose, serenity, peace”)

ko-etym-Sino

안녕하세요? — 안녕? 마샤니? 나 아나야. — 죄송하지만, 전화 잘못 거셨네요.
annyeonghaseyo? - annyeong? masyani? na Anaya. - Joesonghajiman, jeonhwa jalmot geosyeonneyo.
Hello. — Hello. Is this Marsha? It is Anna. — I am sorry. You have the wrong number.
Original English texts from 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)


capaz

(South Brazil) no way! (expresses disbelief)

(South Brazil) no problem; don't mention it (polite response to a thank you)


ख़ामोश

Borrowed from Classical Persian خاموش (xāmōš). Compare Bengali খামোশ (khamōś), Gujarati ખામોશ (khāmoś), Punjabi ਖ਼ਾਮੋਸ਼ (xāmoś).

bor+

ख़ामोश! ― xāmoś! ― Silent! (shortened from ख़ामोश हो!)


خاموش

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خاموش • (hamuş)

Borrowed from Persian خاموش (xâmuš, “silent”).


dommage

Inherited from Old French damage, inherited from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum, from Latin damnum, or from Old French dam + the suffix -age, probably becoming dommage under the influence of Old French dongier (“danger”).


vuoi

Vuoi mu gollelottáš / Vuoi mu beaiveidjalottáš

2006, “Vuoi Vuoi Mu”, in Rauni Magga Lukkari (lyrics), Idjagieđas, performed by Mari Boine:

Oh, my litte golden bird / Oh, my little bird of summer night

expressing gladness, fear, wonder or likewise


illo

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

A shortened form of quillo (a term of endearment for a young person used in Andalucia), itself a shortened form of chiquillo, a diminutive of chico (“kid”).

(colloquial, Andalusia) interjection to express excitement, surprise, annoyance, etc.; oh dude!

(colloquial, Andalusia) used to get someone's attention; hey you!


歡迎

chữ Hán form of hoan nghênh (“welcome”).


stik

Stik, alweer ernaast!

(Netherlands) drat, darn; Used as an expression of frustration, if something doesn't work out as expected. It is a rather innocent, child-friendly curse.


на помощь

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на по́мощь • (na pómoščʹ)

на по́мощь (canonical)
na pómoščʹ (romanization)

[nɐ‿ˈpoməɕː]


на подмогу

на подмо́гу!

на подмо́гу! • (na podmógu!)

на подмо́гу ! (canonical)
na podmógu! (romanization)


помогите

помоги́те • (pomogíte)

помоги́те (canonical)
pomogíte (romanization)


خوش

- بنروح المخيم باچر - خوش!
- We wanna go camping tomorrow. - Awesome!


moni

Unknown; possibilities include English morning (short for good morning), or a worn-down form of kuona (“to see”) or moyoni (“life to you”).


boo-ya

1996, Jerry Maguire (film) -- Catch the ball!' BOO YA! Touchdown! I make miracles happen! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116695/quotes

1997, Jackie Brown (film) -- As Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) is sitting in the fitting room and sliding the bag filled with bath towels, books and money under the dressing room door to Melanie (Bridget Fonda), Jackie adds an extra wad of cash - a "cherry on top..." and exclaims, "Boo-ya!"

2002, Scooter and the Galactic Starship by Douglas R. Robinson -- "Boo-ya!" yelled Jay as he sank an outside shot from the edge of the lawn. "Nothing but net. Just wait till next week, I'm going to light it up for a whole bunch of points." http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595256775&id=SPOpW7yl2mYC&pg=RA1-PA61&lpg=RA1-PA61&ots=kfPG221jK6&dq=%E2%80%9CBoo-ya!%E2%80%9D+yelled+Jay+as+he+sank+an+outside+shot+from+the+edge+of+the+lawn&sig=sbXCdg0BzUDXHRgwmZqW-FMXJV4

2002, Geoffrey Litwack 2002 Annual by Geoffrey Litwack -- [I should] try to get an American Express Stanwood card. That way I can get free upgrades. Boo-ya! Not to Iowa, though. Out of the country. http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN0595267602&id=atecnHWvKDgC&pg=RA1-PA325&lpg=RA1-PA325&ots=eEar7HV0QD&dq=%22should+do:+try+to+get+an+American+Express+%22&sig=-q0I5INXVi4d6ySuRjBqhIvJNxQ

(slang) An exclamation of joy, excitement or triumph.


loppu

From Proto-Finnic *loppu. Equivalent to (dialectal) loppi (“(inside) corner, nook”) + -u or (dialectal) loppea (“to finish”) + -u.

suf

(radio) out (the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response)


no

no (negation; commonly used to respond negatively to a question)


no

indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism

indicating that what was just said was obvious and unnecessary; contrived incredulity


no

No ne!


no

Similar interjections can be found in other Finnic languages (compare Estonian no, noh, Ingrian no, Karelian no, Livonian no, noh, Ludian no, Votic no) and possibly also in other Uralic languages (compare Komi-Zyrian но (no), Udmurt но (no)). Compare also to those found in neighboring Indo-European languages (such as Swedish nå, Latvian nu, Russian ну (nu)), which may all trace back as far as Proto-Indo-European *nu. SSA concludes that the interjection is probably part original and part foreign.

Alternative form: noh

No sepä mukavaa!

No kai meidän sitten pitää käydä katsomassa.

No, mikset mennyt juhliin?

Siellä oli, no, aika tylsää.

No, et sinä nyt noin voi käyttäytyä!

well! (to acknowledge a situation; encouragement to answer or react; expressing the overcoming of reluctance to say something; exclamation of indignance)


no

Borrowed from English no, French non, Italian no, Spanish no. Paronym to ne.


no

Cognate with Finnish no and Estonian no. It is uncertain whether this word is natively Finnic or a borrowing from an Indo-European language (compare Russian ну (nu) and Swedish nå).

No nii, peen - vastajaa Valja.

1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 12:


no

From Old Norse núna, derived from nú.
(interjection): May be related to Finno-Ugric, like Finnish and Estonian no, Ingrian no, Komi-Zyrian но (no), Udmurt но (no). Compare also Swedish nå, Latvian nu and Russian ну (nu).

Der maa no vera nokot smaatt fint Gras imillom, som Femulen finner, for ellers kunde der ikki bu annat Liv enn Reinsdyret.

1861, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860:

There must be some small fine grass in between for the cattle to find, otherwise no other life than the reindeer could live there.

Gakk no deg i Stova inn

1851, Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, Liti Kjersti og bergekongen (transcription of an oral song):

Det kan no faen ikkje stemme at traktor'n var så billeg

It can't be damn right that the tractor was so cheap

Er det no sånn at dåkk vil ikkje bli med på fjellturen?

Is it so, that ya'll don't want to join on the mountain trip?

Eg skulle no vore på elgjakta no, men i staden for det må eg vera her og rydde.

I was supposed to be on the moose hunt now, but I must be here and clean up instead.

Kom igjen no då!

used when finding something out; when being irritated


no

Clipping of ano. Compare Czech no, Silesian no, Slovak no. First attested in the 19th century.

ref

J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “no”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 398


no

From Old Spanish non, from Latin nōn (compare Catalan no, Galician non, French non, Italian no, Portuguese não, Romanian nu, Sicilian no/nun).

eh?, right?, isn't it? (used as a tag question, to emphasise what precedes, or to request that the listener express an opinion)


no

eh, isn't it, true (at end of declarative sentence, forms question to prompt listener's agreement)


stoer

Originally the same word as stuurs, of which it is an eastern dialectal variant. Cognate with German stur (itself from Low German). Not immediately cognate with English stour, Swedish stor, but possibly related.


dritt

Vi døde nesten, dritt!


пожалуйста

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пожа́луйста • (požálujsta)

пожа́луйста (canonical)
požálujsta (romanization)

→ Kazakh: пажалыста (pajalysta)

→ Yakut: баһаалыста (bahaalısta)

[pɐˈʐaɫʊstə]

Пожалуста.wav

Пожалста.wav

Ru-пожалуйста.ogg

Lexicalization of пожа́луй (požáluj) + -ста (-sta), an obsolete clitic that was used to add emphasis and to signify politeness, of obscure origin. The clitic is no longer used or known to most speakers, even as passive vocabulary, and has essentially disappeared from the language. Accordingly, to modern speakers, the ending of the word пожалуйста is merely a sequence of sounds of indeterminate meaning.
The letter й, despite still being used in the spelling, was dropped from the pronunciation.

Да, пожа́луйста.

you're welcome, not at all, don't mention it, it's a pleasure (reply to thank you)

here you are (when handing something over)


hè

Hè? Wat gebeurde er nou?

Hè, doe niet zo kinderachtig!

ugh, aww; said when disappointed or annoyed.

Dat was niet zo slim van je, hè?

(as a question at the end of a statement) does it?, is it?, right?, eh?; creates a tag question.


tja

Tja... jeg ved ikke rigtig.


tja

Negerhollands: tscha

Variant of ja (“yes”). Compare tjonge (from jongen). Compare also Danish ja (“yes”) vs tja (“well…”); Finnish jaa (“yes; oh, well”), tjaa (“well…”).

Tja, eigenlijk weet ik dat niet.

Waar liggen de autosleutels? — Tja, daar vraag je me wat.

Where are the car keys? — Hmm, that's a good question.

Used to express thinking or pondering; hmm, yeah well

Een zeilboot is wel veel onderhoud, hoor. — Tja, dat hou je toch.

A sailboat requires a lot of maintenance, though. — Oh well, it's part of the game.

Zullen we morgen ergens gaan koffiedrinken? — Tja, of brunchen?

How about we go somewhere for coffee tomorrow? — Hmm, how about brunch?

Iedereen kan er wel eens last van hebben: een inkakmomentje op het werk. Tja, wat doe je eraan?

2017 October 9, Bart van Eldert, “'Creatiever op je werk? Doe een dutje' ['Want to be more creative at work? Take a nap']”, in De Gelderlander, retrieved 2022-11-14:

It can happen to anyone: an energy slump at work. Oh well, what to do about it?

Door alle „onvrede” gebruikte hij deze zomer weer eens harddrugs. Maar thrills vindt René sinds kort ook in de supermarkt. Hij steelt. Een gewoonte van vroeger. Tsja. Hij komt nog altijd nauwelijks rond.

2022 October 17, Ingmar Vriesema, “Dan maar douchegel gebruiken als scheerschuim [Making do with shower gel in stead of shaving cream]”, in NRC Handelsblad, retrieved 2022-11-14:

All the "disquiet" made him use hard drugs once more this summer. But recently, René has gotten his thrills in the supermarket, too. He has been stealing. An old habit. Oh well. He still barely makes ends meet.

Used to express ambivalence or resignation

Zal ik een tatoeage laten zetten? — Tja. Dat moet je zelf weten.

Should I get a tattoo? — What can I say? It's up to you.

Heb je de nieuwe Star Wars-film al gezien? — Tja, ik heb echt helemaal niets met sciencefiction.

Did you see the new Star Wars movie yet? — Well, I'm not into science fiction at all.

Er zaten voornamelijk vijftigplussers in de zaal. — Tja, wat verwacht je bij een Bach-uitvoering?

There were mostly over-50s in the audience. — Well, what do you expect at a Bach performance?

Ik ben kletsnat geworden. — Tja, had je maar een regenjas moeten meenemen.

I got soaked. — Well, should have brought a raincoat, shouldn't you?

Used to express that something is to be expected or anticipated

Gerard Cox is een geweldige zanger. — Tja, vind je?

Gerard Cox is an amazing singer. — Hmm, you think so?

We hebben heerlijk gewandeld tijdens onze vakantie. — Tja, ik lig liever aan het strand.

We had some lovely hikes during our holiday. — Well, I, for one, would rather be at the beach.

Hij vindt dit een goed voorstel... Tja.

He thinks this is a good proposal... I have my doubts.

Used to indirectly express disagreement or disapproval


tja

Probably from an onomatopoeia for clicking one’s tongue, which is used with the same meaning. Perhaps also a variant of ja (“yes”). Similar expressions are found in nearby Germanic languages and in Finnish, suggesting an areal feature.

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeia

Was schlägst du vor? — Tja, ich schlage vor, dass wir ins Kino gehen.

What do you suggest? — Well, I suggest that we go to the movies.

Tja! Das war wohl nichts...

Oh well! That didn’t work out as planned...


tja

Má bjóða þér að borða? - Tja, ég veit ekki ...

Would you like to eat? - Well, I'm not sure ...

Expression of contemplation or hesitation


tja

Tja, eg veit ikkje om dét er nokon god idé.

Well...I am not sure if that is a good idea.

used to express uncertainty; hm; well; compare nja


tja

From tjena, in turn a clipping of tjenare, variant of tjänare.

– Tja!, säger Hampus och Andreas och stannar precis framför oss.

– Hi!, say Hampus and Andreas and stop just in front of us.


tja

Sedan dess hade hon juridiskt betraktats som… tja, knäpp.

2015, Stieg Larsson, Män som hatar kvinnor:

Since then she had been legally regarded as… well, crazy.

an expression of doubt and uncertainty; well


chào

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 朝 (“to meet; to meet a senior person; to attend the emperor's audience”, SV: triều). Doublet of chầu and triều. (Nguyễn Văn Khang. Từ ngoại lai trong tiếng Việt, 2007)
False cognate of Italian ciao, which also means both "hello" and "goodbye".

der

SV: <i class="Latn mention" lang="vi">triều</i>

vi-etym-sino

Chào! Ăn thua gì!


faen

Contraction of fanden (“the Devil”), from late Old Norse fendinn, perhaps from Frisian with the original meaning "the tempter, he who tempts". Compare Old Norse fjándinn (“the enemy”), definite of fjándi (“enemy, foe, devil”). Cognate with Danish fanden, Icelandic fjandi, Faroese fanin and Swedish fan. See also djevel.

Fy faen!

Faen ta deg!

Fuck you!, Damn you! (literally, May the devil take you!)

Det var som faen!

Ikke faen!


faen

Contraction of fanden (“the Devil”), from late Old Norse fendinn, perhaps from Frisian with the original meaning "the tempter, he who tempts". Compare Old Norse fjándinn (“the enemy”), definite of fjándi (“enemy, foe, devil”). Cognate with Danish fanden and Swedish fan. See also djevel.

Fy faen!

Faen ta deg!

Det var som faen!

Ikkje faen!


chài

(Internet slang, uncommon) Alternative form of trời (“gosh; darn”)


hū

From Proto-Polynesian *fuu. Compare Maori hū.

huh!, ah!, wow! (expression of surprise or interest)


hū

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?]. Cognate with Hawaiian hū.


hù

boo (a loud exclamation intended to scare someone)


nè

Southern Vietnam form of này (“hey!; hold up!”)


gá

Gá! Gá! Gá! / Szalad világgá / Liba mama, ha a Csacsi / rábőg, hogy I-á!

1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert), archived from the original on 2018-10-19:

Honk! Honk! Honk! / Running far away / mama Goose, when the Donkey / brays at her Hee-haw!

honk (representation of the sound of a goose)


tatty bye

Phrase made popular by comedian Ken Dodd in the 1970s, but persisting in the language.


até

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese até, ata of uncertain origin. Possibly from Arabic حَتَّى (ḥattā), Latin ad ista (“to this”) or Latin ad tenus (“as far as”) (>"ad tenes"), which explain the large number of mediaeval variants (atrõe, atée, atrõo, attaa, atẽe, atães, tẽe and so on). However, considering the rarity of tenus, possibly from Latin intrā. Compare Spanish hasta.

inh+

(Brazil, informal) short for any farewell containing até (até-logo, até mais, até breve, até já): see ya; see you later; see you soon


большое спасибо

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большо́е спаси́бо

большо́е спаси́бо • (bolʹšóje spasíbo)

большо́е спаси́бо (canonical)
bolʹšóje spasíbo (romanization)


GIYF

Google is your friend
Google is your friend#English

(Internet slang, initialism, abbreviation, text messaging) Initialism of Google is your friend.

ggrks

ググれカス, gugure kasu, "Google it, you trash"


kvaak

Onomatopoeic, but perhaps from Swedish kvack.


tulta

[ˈt̪ul̪t̪ɑ̝]


xí

(Southern Vietnam) Indicating mild discontent or disgust: ugh! huh! fie! hell!


lā

East Semitic:

Akkadian: 𒆷𒀀 (la-a /lā/)

West Semitic:

Central Semitic:

desctree

Arabic: لَا (lā)
Gulf Arabic: لَأْ (laʔ, “no”), لا (la, “don't (used before imperatives)”)
South Levantine Arabic: لأ (laʔ), لا (la, “don't (with imperative or subjunctive)”)
Maltese: la, le
→ Swahili: la

Northwest Semitic:

Aramaic: לָא (lā)

Mandaic: ࡋࡀ (lā)

Classical Syriac: ܠܳܐ (lā)

Canaanite:

Hebrew: לֹא (lo, lōʾ)

Phoenician: 𐤋𐤀 (lʾ /lū/)

Ugaritic: 𐎍 (l /lā-/)

Modern South Arabian:

Mehri: لَأ (laʾ)

Harsusi: [script needed] (laʔ)


tervetuloa

[ˈt̪e̞rʋe̞t̪̚ˌt̪ulo̞ɑ̝]

(when greeting) welcome, great to see you, nice you could come

looking forward to seeing you
looking forward to seeing you

(after having arranged a visit) looking forward to seeing you

(when inviting someone) Would you like to visit us? It'd be nice to have you over sometime. (Please) come again! (only by salespeople:) (Please) call again!


näkemiin

Literally "until we see/meet again"; the illative plural of the 3rd infinitive näkemä- of nähdä (“to see”); thus, more literally, "to seeings", "until seeings"; compare Swedish på återseende, German auf Wiedersehen, French au revoir, Italian arrivederci.


nähdään

nähdään myöhemmin

nähdään pian

nähdään taas


サンキュー

ja-pos

サンキュー or さんきゅう • (sankyū)

サンキュー (canonical)
さんきゅう (canonical)
sankyū (romanization)


三Q

/sän⁵⁵ kʰi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/

/sän⁵⁵ kʰi̯oʊ̯²/

/sän⁵⁵ kʰi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/

/sän⁵⁵ kʰi̯oʊ̯²/

Borrowed from English thank you, via Japanese サンキュー.


hyvästi

From hyvä (“good”) + -sti. In the sense "farewell", an ellipsis of jää hyvästi, jääkää hyvästi (literally “remain well”).


γεια

From Ancient Greek ὑγίεια (hugíeia, “health”), from ὑγιής (hugiḗs).

γεια μας

cheers; toast used when drinking in company

έχετε γεια Έχε γεια and έχετε γεια is still used in Cyprus as a form of goodbye but is pronounced as éshe geiá and éshete geiá


кругом

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круго́м • (krugóm)

круго́м (canonical)
krugóm (romanization)

(military command) about turn, about face


damn skippy

(mildly vulgar, slang) Expressing approval or excitement.

(mildly vulgar, slang) Expressing strong agreement.


velho

From Old Galician-Portuguese velho, from Late Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus.

(Brazil) man!, dude! (emphatic interjection)


dannazione

Borrowed from Latin damnātiōnem. Equivalent of dannare + -zione.


mú

moo (the characteristic sound made by a cow)


my word

My word! What is that!?

(idiomatic, Australia, New Zealand, UK, dated, US, Canada) An expression of surprise.

(idiomatic, Australia, New Zealand, UK, dated, US, Canada) Indeed.


lá

Trá-lá-lá-lá-lá.

meaningless syllable used in joyful singing


ō

A greeting said when answering the telephone, much like the English hello.


приём

приём • (prijóm)


goedemorgen

Negerhollands: guj morgen

Sranan Tongo: kumorgu

→ Papiamentu: mòru, morge, morgen


yuh

(vulgar) Interjection expressing surprise


Jesum Crow

Jesum Crow, why's the statie so upset? We're only drinking tonics out here.

(bowdlerization, euphemistic, US) Synonym of Jesus Christ (“exclamation of anger, surprise, etc.”)


нету

не́ту • (nétu)

Inherited from Old East Slavic нѣту (nětu) and нѣтъ (nětŭ). From older *не ѥ ту (it is not here), where ту (тут, also colloquial не́туть (nétutĭ)), was originally an ethical dative (-ть (-tĭ), dative -ти (-ti)).

inh+

— Ты шутишь? — Нету.


P U

Possibly from Spanish fu, an interjection indicating disgust, or from French puer (“to stink”)

What is that awful smell? P U!

(euphemistic) An interjection in response to smelling an unpleasant scent.


yabba dabba doo

/ˈjæbə ˈdæbə ˈduː/

Catchphrase of the animated character Fred Flintstone, of onomatopoeic origin.

Yabba dabba doo! I'm off work!

An expression of happiness or excitement.


tabbed

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tabbéd or tabbë́d (Kur-itan spelling ᜆᜊ᜔ᜊᜒᜇ᜔)


عصر بخیر

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عَصْر بِخِیْر

عَصْر بِخِیْر • ('asr bexeyr)

عَصْر بِخِیْر (canonical)
'asr bexeyr (romanization)

[ʔäsɾ bä.χǽjɾ]


mesdames et messieurs

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-Mesdames et Messieurs.wav

ladies and gentlemen
ladies and gentlemen


شب بخیر

شَب بِخِیْر • (šab bexeyr)

شَب بِخِیْر (canonical)
šab bexeyr (romanization)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: शब बख़ैर (śab baxair)

Urdu: شَب بَخَیر (śab baxair)

[ʃäb bä.χǽjɾ]

From شَب (šab, “night”) + بِه (be) + خِیْر (xeyr, “good”).


شب بخیر

ur-interjection

شَب بَخَیر • (śab baxair) (Hindi spelling शब बख़ैर)

شَب بَخَیر (canonical)
śab baxair (romanization)
शब बख़ैर (Hindi)

/ʃəb bə.xɛːɾ/

Borrowed from Classical Persian شب بخیر (šab ba-xayr).


صبح بخیر

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صُبْح بِخِیْر

صُبْح بِخِیْر • (sobh bexeyr)

صُبْح بِخِیْر (canonical)
sobh bexeyr (romanization)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: सुबह बख़ैर (subah baxair)

desc

صُبْح بَخَیر

Urdu: صُبْح بَخَیر (subh baxair)

Borrowed from Arabic صَبَاح الخَيْر (ṣabāḥ al-ḵayr).

bor+

صَبَاح الخَيْر


صبح بخیر

ur-interjection

صُبْح بَخَیر

صُبْح بَخَیر • (subh baxair) (Hindi spelling सुबह बख़ैर)

صُبْح بَخَیر (canonical)
subh baxair (romanization)
सुबह बख़ैर (Hindi)

Borrowed from Classical Persian صُبْح بَخَیْر (subh baxayr), from Arabic صَبَاح الخَيْر (ṣabāḥ al-ḵayr).

bor+

صُبْح بَخَیْر

der

صَبَاح الخَيْر

Arabic صَبَاح الخَيْر (ṣabāḥ al-ḵayr)


ببخشید

Second person plural/polite subjunctive or imperative form of بخشیدن (baxšidan, “to forgive”).

ببخشید (که) دیر کردم. ― bebaxšid (ke) dir kardam. ― Sorry I'm late.


skoal

From Danish/Norwegian/Swedish skål, which is used when making a toast and also means "bowl".

A toast when drinking, roughly equivalent to cheers.


jumalauta

[ˈjumɑ̝ˌlɑ̝u̯t̪ɑ̝]

[ˈjumɑ̝lˌɑ̝u̯t̪ɑ̝]

Univerbation of Jumala + auta. Literally, “God, help(!)”, possibly originally a minced oath. Compare jumankauta.


марш

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марш • (marš)


марш

марш • (marš)

Borrowed from French marche (“march”) via Polish marsz or German Marsch.

ru:Марш (значения)

на старт, внима́ние, марш!

ша́гом марш!

марш отсю́да! (colloquial)

кругом марш!


bliksem

From Dutch bliksem, from Middle Dutch blexeme, from Old Dutch blikisni (“lightning bolts”), ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivation of Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-.


درود

[d̪æ.ɹuːd̪̥]

From Middle Persian [script needed] (drwd /drōd/, “well-being, health, welfare”), from Old Persian *druwatā-, from 𐎯𐎢𐎽𐎢𐎺 (du-u-ru-u-v /duruva-/, “secure, healthy”), from Proto-Iranian *druwáh. Compare Avestan 𐬛𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬙𐬁𐬝 (druuatāt̰, “health”) (from 𐬛𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀- (druua-)) and Sanskrit ध्रुव (dhruvá, “fixed, immovable; firm”). Related to Old Armenian դրուատ (druat). As a greeting compare Russian здоро́во (zdoróvo, “hi”).


sucre bleu

Literally "blue sugar"; a jocular corruption of the French sacrebleu (“good heavens”).

2/17/1977, Robert J. Tobin, Time Magazine-Letters to the Editor https://archive.today/20130630104459/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914748-3,00.html
Sucre bleu! Louis Bechereau will be sure to wreak his Gallic spleen in that Great Aerodrome in the Sky…

2006, Unknown, University of Minnesota Morris-The Weight https://web.archive.org/web/20070613165602/http://www.mrs.umn.edu/register/archives/v18/URegV18AFE.pdf
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin raced down to the door and gasped at what stood before him. "Sucre bleu!" he screamed

2003, Bob Weisgerber, Golf Today Magazine http://www.golftodaymagazine.com/pdf/2003/Nov03%20web.pdf
Sucre Bleu! my coffee’s got no sweetener dammit!

(colloquial, humorous) Expressing anger or surprise.


с Новым годом

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с Но́вым го́дом

с Но́вым го́дом • (s Nóvym gódom)

с Но́вым го́дом (canonical)
s Nóvym gódom (romanization)

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The verb поздравля́ть (pozdravljátʹ, “to congratulate”) is implied.


honest injun

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honest + injun, a dialectal or eye dialectal spelling of Indian.

(US, dated, offensive) A phrase used to emphasize the truth of something.


ngentot

From Betawi ngentot. Equivalent to meng- + entot.

(offensive, vulgar, colloquial, slang) fuck!


sacrebleu

Expurgated form of sacre Dieu (“sacred God”).

(dated, euphemistic, minced oath) good heavens, oh my gosh


flûte

From Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. The contraction of the Old French hiatus created a long vowel in Middle French, which is indicated by the modern circumflex.

Devant toi, une fille sourit. Tu l’aimes. Elle ne le saura jamais. Flûte. C’était une belle minute.

2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, pages 85–86:

In front of you, a girl smiles. You love her. She'll never know. Damn. It was a beautiful moment.

blow!, drat! (mildly impolite interjection)


HGH

(Internet slang) Acronym of Hoe gaat het?. (which means how are you doing?)


insomma

Univerbation of in (“in”) + somma (“sum; essence”), a calque of Latin in summā.

univerbation

come vanno le cose? insomma


fuckaduck

Formed from fuck by way of rhyming reduplication.

“Fuckaduck!” she gasped, “That was a bit bloody scary!”

2003, Patricia Bensky, A Lizard in the Sun: Three Years of Zero Budget Travels:


Lord love a duck

Variant of earlier (18th century) Lord love you, God love us, etc. used as exclamation of exasperation or surprise. The significance of the duck is unknown. Attested from the late 19th century.

"Lord love a duck!" he observed in a dazed voice — "What's this?"

Gypsy Rose passed me a tuna on rye. "Lord love a duck, I hope she's not Carita Magenta's ghost.

2000, Noreen Wald, Death Never Takes a Holiday:

Green's Dictionary of Slang
Michael Quinion


guai

From Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai, “woe!”), from Proto-Germanic *wai. Compare Latin vae, which likewise descends from Proto-Indo-European *wai.


guai

Guai acquelli ke morrano ne le peccata mortali. beati quelli ke trovarane le tue santissime voluntati

c. 1226, Francis of Assisi, Cantico delle creature [Canticle of the Creatures], Biblioteca del Sacro Convento di San Francesco, page 2:

Woe to those who die in mortal sin. Blessed be those who find themselves in your most holy will

[…] Guai a voi, anime prave!
Non isperate mai veder lo cielo:
i' vegno per menarvi a l'altra riva
ne le tenebre etterne, in caldo e 'n gelo.

1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto Ⅲ [Canto 3]”, in La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, page 42, lines 84–87:

Woe to you, o depraved souls! Do not hope to ever see heaven: I come to lead you to the other bank, to the eternal darkness, in heat and in frost.


guai

From Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai, “woe”), from Proto-Germanic *wai, both from Proto-Indo-European *wai.


sha

Allegro form of pasha, itself an optative form of kam.


arrivederci

/əˌɹiːvəˈdɛətʃi/

From Italian arrivederci (“goodbye”), from a (“to”) with rivederci (“to see each other again”), from the infinitive rivedersi (“to see each other again, to meet again”), from ri- (“re-”) with the infinitive vedersi (“to see each other”), from vedere (“to see”) with the variable pronoun si (“oneself; one another”).

(in the context of Italy or Italian culture) farewell, goodbye, see you later (non-definitive farewell)

αριβεντέρτσι

Italian farewell (transliterations only)


arrivederci

Borrowed from Italian arrivederci (“goodbye”), from a (“to”) with rivederci (“to see each other again”), from the infinitive rivedersi (“to see each other again, to meet again”), from ri- (“re-”) with the infinitive vedersi (“to see each other”), from vedere (“to see”) with the variable pronoun si (“oneself; one another”).
Cognate with French au revoir.


arrivederci

Unadapted borrowing from Italian arrivederci.


arrivederci

From a (“to”) + rivederci (“to see each other again”), from rivedersi (“see each other again, meet again”). Cognate with French au revoir. See Romanian la revedere.

compound

goodbye, so long, see you soon, see you (non-definitive farewell)


tiddly

Alternative form of diddly (a trill sound)


godverdomme

→ Indonesian: hotperdom

→ Walloon: godferdom

Univerbation of God + verdomme. Literally, “God dammit, may God damn”. The -me is not the pronoun me, but represents the dated subjunctive suffix -e (preceded by a second -m- to mark the penultimate syllable as closed and the pronunciation of its vowel as short).

(vulgar, potentially offensive) Goddamn!


dog my cats

Why, dog my cats, they must a ben a house-full o' niggers in there every night for four weeks to a done all that work, Sister Phelps.

1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:

"I began to feel sorry for Hubby, dog my cats if I didn't."

Buffalo Bill Cody: "Dog my cats" — Preston Sturgis, "Annie Oakley", 1935

Salesman: "Well, dog my cats!" — Moroni Olsen, "Christmas in July", 1940

Joe Ross: "Dog my cats indeed" — David Mamet, "The Spanish Prisoner", 1997

Marshall Eriksen: "Well, dog my cats..." — Jason Segel, "How I Met Your Mother", 2010

(idiomatic) Used as a mild oath, or as an expression of astonishment


bullocks

“Oh, bullocks!” she exclaimed. “Well, no real harm done. I remember the numbers.”

2001, Sanford H. Margalith, edited by Gail M. Hayden, Captains, Jona Books, →ISBN, page 122:

It looks as thoguh you’re in store for a live threed Chairman Olin, I should wan you that the following presentation has been deemed doublepluscrimethink by our Supreme Revolutionary Oceanic Ministry of Truth, and possession of this material in any form is...oh, bullocks, I gave myself away...

2003, Paul Lucian, Nineteeneightyfive; an Unnovel, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 191:

“Oh bullocks!” he shook his head in disgust. “You haven't heard a word I said!”

2008, Valjeanne JEffers, editor, Immortal, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 42:

(slang, euphemistic) Expression of frustration.


God damn

"Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."

1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31:


no idea

Indicates that the speaker is completely ambivalent about something.

不知道

indicates complete ambivalence about something


фу-фу

фу-фу ́! (canonical)
fu-fú! (romanization)


м-м-да

м-м-да ́ (canonical)
m-m-dá (romanization)


ай-ай-ай

ай-ай-а́й! (canonical)
aj-aj-áj! (romanization)


ш-ш-ш

head

ш-ш-ш • (š-š-š)


oidhche mhath

/ˌɤɪçə ˈvaː/


уф

уф, пыкше ыштен пытарышым


slàinte

slàinte agad-sa


attenzione

watch out!; look out!; take care!; mind!; careful!


gezondheid

/ɣəˈzɔntˌɦɛi̯t/

From Middle Dutch gesontheid. Equivalent to gezond + -heid. Compare German Gesundheit.


фу

(a command for a dog) stop that!, don't do that!


en garde

(fencing) Used to warn one's opponent to take a defensive position prior to a fight.


en garde

En garde! Prêts? Allez!
En garde! Prêts? Allez!

(fencing) Part of the sequence En garde! Prêts? Allez!


эй

oh!, ah! (expresses surprise, delight, sadness, pain, regret, disappointment, reproach, concern, etc.)


эй

→ Eastern Mari: эй (ej)


ooh la la

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French oh là là / ouh là là, an exclamation of surprise, concern, or dismay. The French exclamation lacks the connotations of the English, either of snobbery or raciness; these emerged in English owing to stereotypes about the French.

Oh, they were serving croque-monsieurs, now were they? Ooh la la.

A rejoinder indicating that the speaker asserts (either reproachfully or jocularly) that the interlocutor (or someone else that they are discussing) is putting on airs; often when the interlocutor has used a big word, especially a loanword that English got from French.

Ooh la la, monsieur, you do have big muscles after all.

Well, what are we gonna tell your mama? / What are we gonna tell your pa? / What are we gonna tell our friends / When they say, "Ooh la la!"

1957, Felice and Boudleaux Bryant (lyrics and music), “Wake Up Little Susie”, performed by The Everly Brothers:

An exclamation of surprise, sometimes with strong sexual connotations.


attento

watch out!; look out!; take care!; mind!; careful!; be careful


my ass

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She'll use my money to buy a new car, my ass!

You're his brother, my ass! You look nothing alike.

And then I found out. "Single" he told me? Single, my ass! Not only was he married, oh, no, he had six wives!

1975, “Cell Block Tango”, in Fred Ebb (lyrics), John Kander (music), Chicago:

(slang, sometimes vulgar) Indicates disapproval, disagreement, or disbelief, often with a tone of disregard, disdain, or disgust, referring to the buttocks.


for shame

Using that kind of language in mixed company, Mike? For shame!


(Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of got to go.

(Internet slang) Initialism of good to go.

(Internet slang) Abbreviation of get together.


無問題

/bo²⁴⁻²² bun²²⁻²¹ tue²⁴/

/bo²⁴⁻¹¹ bun³³⁻¹¹ tue²⁴/

/bo²⁴⁻²² bun⁴¹⁻²² tue²⁴/

/bɤ²³⁻³³ bun³³⁻²¹ te²³/

/bo¹³⁻²² bun²²⁻²¹ te¹³/

/bo²⁴⁻²² bun²²⁻²¹ tue²⁴/

/bo²⁴⁻¹¹ bun³³⁻¹¹ tue²⁴/

/bo²⁴⁻²² bun⁴¹⁻²² tue²⁴/

/bɤ²³⁻³³ bun³³⁻²¹ te²³/

/bo¹³⁻²² bun²²⁻²¹ te¹³/


無問題

ja-pos

無(もう)問(まん)題(たい) or 無(む)問(もん)題(だい) or 無問題(モウマンタイ) or 無問題(もーまんたい) or 無問題(モーマンタイ) • (mōmantai or mumondai)

無問題 (canonical)
無問題 (canonical)
無問題 (canonical)
無問題 (canonical)
無問題 (canonical)
mōmantai (romanization)
mumondai (romanization)

Jukujikun reading: From Cantonese 冇問題／冇问题 (mou5 man6 tai4), popularized by 1999 Hong Kong movie with the same title.


esatto

correct!; that's it!; just so!; spot on!


coppish

Simple, I live here so I was nominated. Coppish?

2001, Lil Cromer, Allen R. Pedrick, chapter 3, in Terminal Greed, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 33:

"After that we'll see." Jake reached out and clasped Walter's shoulder. "Coppish?" Walter smiled broadly. "Coppish, Mr. Serranto."

2006, Michael Beres, chapter 21, in The President’s Nemesis, Palm Beach, Fla.: Medallion Press, →ISBN, page 174:


kich

Apparently a euphemistic alteration of cack, cach, from Middle English *caken, cakken, from Latin cacō (“to defecate”).

Shit! An expression of disgust or anger.


ничего

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ничего́ • (ničevó)

ничего́ (canonical)
ničevó (romanization)

[nʲɪt͡ɕɪˈvo]

— Ничего, ничего, брат Егор, ничего… — забормотал скороговоркой о. Христофор. — Ничего, брат… Призывай бога… Не за худом едешь, а за добром. Ученье, как говорится, свет, а неученье — тьма… Истинно так.

1888, Антон Чехов, “I”, in Степь; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., The Steppe, 1919:

"Never mind, never mind, Yegor boy, never mind," Father Christopher muttered rapidly—"never mind, my boy. . . . Call upon God. . . . You are not going for your harm, but for your good. Learning is light, as the saying is, and ignorance is darkness. . . . That is so, truly."

— Ničevo, ničevo, brat Jegor, ničevo… — zabormotal skorogovorkoj o. Xristofor. — Ničevo, brat… Prizyvaj boga… Ne za xudom jedešʹ, a za dobrom. Učenʹje, kak govoritsja, svet, a neučenʹje — tʹma… Istinno tak.

never mind!; that's all right!; no problem!


здорово

здо́рово! • (zdórovo!)

здо́рово! (canonical)
zdórovo! (romanization)

Ru-здорово.ogg


здорово

здоро́во! • (zdoróvo!)

здоро́во! (canonical)
zdoróvo! (romanization)

→ Dolgan: дорообо (doroobo)

→ Evenki: дорово (dorowo)

→ Georgian: ზდაროვა (zdarova)

→ Southern Yukaghir: дорообо (dorōbo)

→ Yakut: дорообо (doroobo)


pazienza

Learned borrowing from Latin patientia, derived from patiēns, present active participle of patior (“to suffer”).


O RLY

Internet abbreviation of oh really? First appeared around 2003 on the website Something Awful.

Excessive use of Internet-speak, 1337-speak or chat fads (such as the "O RLY?" "YA RLY"! exchange) are banned. While these are acceptable in small doses, too much use is spamming and just plain annoying.

2003 May 9, Lu Hong, “The Big, Bad, Rules of #simrtk”, in Simulated RTK, archived from the original on 2007-08-13:

Comment by O RLY YA RLY — June 22, 2003 @ 15:10

2003 June 20, O RLY YA RLY, “WHY IS THERE NO GOOD PORN?”, in how to save the world, retrieved 2013-09-12:

(Internet slang) Expressing interest, usually with implied sarcasm or disdain.


booyah

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Let's go storm that hill. Booyah!

The party on Saturday night is going to be awesome. Booyah!

Mission accomplished. Booyah!

(colloquial) Expressing satisfaction or accomplishment.


positivo

Borrowed from Latin posītīvus (“positive”), from the past participle stem of pōnō (“to place”).


вон

Inherited from Old East Slavic вънъ (vŭnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *vъnъ. Cognate with dialectal во́нки (vónki, “out”), Old Church Slavonic вънъ (vŭnŭ, “out”), Ukrainian во́нка (vónka, “out”), Bulgarian вън (vǎn, “out”) (also въ́нка (vǎ́nka)), Serbo-Croatian ва̏н (“out”), Slovene vèn (“out”) (tonal orthography), Czech ven (“out”), Slovak von (“out”), Old Polish wen (“out”), Upper Sorbian won (“out”), Lower Sorbian wen (“out”). See вне (vne) for further discussion.

inh+

пошёл вон!

вон (оно́) что! ― von (onó) što! ― You don’t say!

— Вон!!! — вдруг га́ркнул Пе́рсиков так стра́шно, что пиани́но в гости́ной изда́ло звук на то́нких кла́вишах.

1925, Михаил Булгаков [Mikhail Bulgakov], “Глава 5. Куриная история”, in Роковые яйца; English translation from K. M. Cook-Horujy, transl., The Fateful Eggs, Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1990:

"Get out!" Persikov suddenly roared so terrifyingly that the high keys on the piano in the drawing-room vibrated.

— Von!!! — vdrug gárknul Pérsikov tak strášno, što pianíno v gostínoj izdálo zvuk na tónkix klávišax.


salutations

The interjection is an application of the noun.

Greetings and salutations. You a Heather?

1989, Daniel Waters, 11:50 from the start, in Michael Lehmann, director, Heathers, spoken by Jason Dean (Christian Slater):


haram

Haram olsun sənə verdiyim ürək!

(literally, “May the heart I gave you be haram for you; may it not benefit you”)

Shame on you for having broken my heart!


tjaa

Variant of jaa. Compare similar pairs in North Germanic languages, especially Swedish ja (“yes”), tja (“well…”).


ал

Ал, зэ щыгъэт

Al, zɛ śəğɛt

Ал, зэ зэӏун

expresses an order with a touch of threat


آلو

ar-interj

آلُو • (ʔālū)


halloa

Halloa! what's this?

"Halloa! Below there!" When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.

"Halloa! Stop there!" he shouted, holding his bicycle to block our road.

1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:

A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention to something or to incite; a shout.


scusa

(informal) sorry! (second-person singular)


showtime

A declaration that something is about to happen, particularly that the person speaking is about to act.


די

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דַּי • (dái)


ควย

From Proto-Tai *ɣwajᴬ (“penis”). Cognate with Lao ໂຄຍ (khōi), Northern Thai ᨤ᩠ᩅ᩠ᨿ, Khün ᨣ᩠ᩅᩭ, Lü ᦩᦾ (xwoay), Shan ၵႂႆး (kwái), Tai Nüa ᥑᥩᥭᥰ (xöay), Phake ၵွႝ (khoy), Ahom 𑜁𑜨𑜩 (khoy), Zhuang vaez, Nong Zhuang vaez. Compare Proto-Austronesian *gaway (“tentacles of octopus, squid, jellyfish, etc”).
It was believed that the word was corrupted from Pali guyha (“hidden, concealed, unrevealed”) (and then ควยห์ occurred). But every Tai language had not contacted Pali and guyha did not literally mean “penis”. So this is coincidence.

ncog

(vulgar) an expression of anger, displeasure, or dismay.


ой

Ой, много боли!

ouch (expression of one's own physical pain)

Ой, колко хубаво!


ой

oh (expressing surprise, pleasure, etc.)

ow, ouch! (expressing pain, shock, terror, etc.)


ой

→ Eastern Mari: ой (oj)

→ Lithuanian: oi

Onomatopoeic. Compare Polish oj and Yiddish אוי (oy).


hotcha

Hotcha! Here comes a serving of beer.

La Mezcla, Armijo High School, Fairfield, Calif., June 1933, p. 17

Did you ever see her in a bathing suit? Hotcha!

John O'Hara, Appointment in Samarra, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1935, p. 21

(US, slang, dated) An exclamation of excitement, delight or high approval.


sori

Synonym of anteeksi (“sorry; excuse me”).


sori

(informal) Synonym of maaf (“sorry; excuse me”)


sori

Sori, nije bilo namjerno!.


sori

Borrowed from English sorry, from Middle English sory, from Old English sāriġ.

expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow: sorry


sinine

From Proto-Finnic *sininen, from sini- + -ne.

Oh sa sinine sitikas!

Used in mild curse phrases, usually suits phonetically with the next word.


yadda

In fact, the academic said, crime trends are influenced far more by demographics and social forces and yadda, yadda, yadda than by police work.

2006, Andrew Karmen, New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime […] :

The planners held all the requisite public hearings, public discussions, public meetings, public forums, yadda public-this and yadda public-that.

2002 June 2, Craig Medred, “Trails committee goes a little wild”, in Anchorage Daily News, page G1:

Used three times in a row, or in combination with other words, to indicate part of a sentence which would be annoying to include, or which is incomprehensible, or which is just unimportant.


dang it

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(chiefly US, informal, minced oath) An expression used to show displeasure. A less emphatic, less profane version of dammit.


バイバイ

From English bye-bye. Attested from at least the 1930s.


get bent

Coordinate term: get real

(idiomatic, slang) Used to dismiss a person or what they are saying, and end the conversation.


guau

woof, bow wow (the sound a dog makes when barking)


guau

Borrowed from English wow, with w- changed to gu- as is normal for borrowings from Germanic languages (compare Spanish guardar from Frankish *wardōn).

Guau, ¡qué bárbaro!


kia ora

(New Zealand, informal) Used as a greeting.

(New Zealand) Expressing good will or gratitude.


kia ora

Desiderative verbal particle kia + ora (“health, wellness”). Literally, "may [you] be of good health".

A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.

An expression of gratitude (similar to cheers!).

An expression of support or agreement (similar to hear hear).


sveglia

Deverbal from svegliare (“to wake up”) + -a.


тьфу

head

тьфу • (tʹfu)

Onomatopoeic, mimics the sound of spitting.

fie!; for shame!; nuts!; damn it!, dammit! (expresses strong disgust or disappointment)


тьфу

тьфу • (tʹfu)


peki

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پكی (peki, “good, well, OK”).

bor+

OK (used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance)


peki

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پكی (peki). Contraction of pekiyi, from pek (“very”) + iyi (“good”).


ちょっと

ja-pos

ちょっと or チョット or チョッと • (chotto)

ちょっと (canonical)
チョット (canonical)
チョッと (canonical)
chotto (romanization)

From ちっと (chitto), itself a geminated emphatic form of ちと (chito), originally composed of ち (chi, “small”, not used in isolation; cognate with the chi in 小さい chīsai) + と (to, adverbial particle).

ja-compound

not used in isolation; cognate with the chi in <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">小さい</i> chīsai

ちょっと、聞いて良いですか。


βρεκεκεκέξ

head

βρεκεκεκέξ • (brekekekéx)

Onomatopoeic, a sound to imitate the croaking of frogs.

Βάτραχοι: βρεκεκεκὲξ κοὰξ κοάξ.
Διόνυσος: ἀλλ’ ὦ φιλῳδὸν γένος, παύσασθε.
Bátrakhoi: brekekekèx koàx koáx.

405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 239–240

2008 translation by Jeffrey Henderson
Frogs: Rrrribbit, croak croak.
Dionysus: Ah, you songful race, do stop!

Diónusos: all’ ô philōidòn génos, paúsasthe.

Διόνυσος καὶ Βάτραχοι: βρεκεκεκὲξ κοὰξ κοάξ.
Διόνυσος: τουτὶ παρ’ ὑμῶν λαμβάνω.
Βάτραχοι: δεινὰ τἄρα πεισόμεσθα.
Diónusos kaì Bátrakhoi: brekekekèx koàx koáx.
Diónusos: toutì par’ humôn lambánō.

405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 250–252

2008 translation by Jeffrey Henderson
Dionysus and Frogs: Rrrribbit, croak croak.
Dionysus: I'm borrowing this from you!
Frogs: What an awful thing to do!

Διόνυσος καὶ Βάτραχοι: βρεκεκεκὲξ κοὰξ κοάξ.
Διόνυσος: τούτῳ γὰρ οὐ νικήσετε.
Βάτραχοι: οὐδὲ μὴν ἡμᾶς σὺ πάντως.
Diónusos kaì Bátrakhoi: brekekekèx koàx koáx.
Diónusos: toútōi gàr ou nikḗsete.

405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 260–262

2008 translation by Jeffrey Henderson
Dionysus and Frogs: Rrrribbit, croak croak.
Dionysus: You won't beat me at this!
Frogs: And you absolutely won’t beat us!

(onomatopoeia) ribbit (the sound of a croaking frog), a croak.


pfft

1965 Peter De Vries — Let Me Count the Ways
You'd never forgive yourself — and then you'd never forgive me, and then pfft, the end of a fine friendship.

Used to signify a sudden ending or disappearance.

“[…] You remember that lump I got? I felt something poking out of it. So I pulled, like, I just pulled one out, put it on some folded-up toilet paper, then went back in and got another one. Then one more after that. I’m pretty sure they’re spider legs,” Orvil says. ¶ “Pfffffft,” Loother says and laughs. At which point Orvil shows him a neat pile of folds of toilet paper.

2018, Tommy Orange, “Orvil Red Feather”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 125:

Used to signify sarcasm or disagreement.

(onomatopoeia) Used to signify a puffing sound.

(onomatopoeia) The sound of a short fart.


great Scott

Uncertain or disputed. May come from Gen. Winfield Scott of the American Civil War, who weighed about 300 pounds and was referred to by his troops as "Great Scott". Alternately, perhaps a corruption of German grüß Gott! (“Good day!, Hello!”, literally “May God greet (thee)!”), or a euphemism for great Satan or good God.

bor

“It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!”
Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.

1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League:

"Great Scott!" said Mr. Jamieson. "I didn't think things were as serious as that."

1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 15, column 1:

(dated) An exclamation of surprise or amazement

Great Scott
Green's Dictionary of Slang
Winfield Scott


οἴμοι

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οἴμοι • (oímoi)

Greek: οίμοι (oímoi)

Univerbation of οἴ (oí, “woe!”) + μοι (moi, “to me”).


mahogany gaspipe

A nonsense phrase, to describe what the Irish language sounds like to Anglophones.

It is completely false to suggest that Irish was ever the natural or the native language of this city of Dublin, or of any of our other cities. I always think that Dubliners' attitude to the Irish language is summed up in four words: “Tá sé mahogany gas-pipe”.

1962 June 5, Patrick Byrne, “Committee on Finance. - Vóta 30-Oifig an Aire Oideachais (Atógáil).”, in Dáil Éireann debates, Vol. 195 No. 14 c. 2013:

"Thaw shay mahogany gas-pipes" is a venerable native witticism. It is the facetious Gaelic sally of a person without Gaelic. Suitably mouthed, it sounds frightfully Irish. Leaguers resent it as a sneer.

1967 October 30, Myles na gCopaleen, “Language Please”, in The Irish Times, page 10:

"Buy Irish" is a strongly ritualistic tradition ever since the infancy of the Gaelic League whin all Irish islanders wore Irish tweed and according to Myles na Gopaleen had only to say "Mahogany Gas Pipes" at a ceili to be immediately accepted as native Irish speakers.

1977 July 30, Donal Foley, “The Saturday Column; Buy Irish”, in The Irish Times, page 12:

I've no idea what they're going on about - it's all mahogany gaspipe to me - but next thing Brendan tips me the nod and a wink and gives me to understand that the job is oxo.

1993, Colbert Kearney, The Consequence, Blackstaff Press, →ISBN, page 277:

The original ‘Italian’ reads ‘Raphèl maí amèche zabí almi’, which Carson renders as ‘Yin twa maghogani gazpaighp boke!’, blending Ulster-Scots and ‘mahogany gaspipe’, the non-Irish-speaker's proverbial idea of what the language sounds like.

2014, Sinéad Sturgeon, Essays on James Clarence Mangan: The Man in the Cloak, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 47:

(slang, Ireland, dated) a representation of how the Irish language sounds to a non-speaker; gobbledegook.


pan

Pan! T’es mort !


akkoord

Afrikaans: akkoord


nosh

(slang, Australia, sarcastic) An ironic response to a statement of the obvious.


no shit, Sherlock

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A reference to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, pretending that the interlocutor has just made a great deduction.

"No shit, Sherlock. Take another look, see how they come to be bent."

1976, Emmett Grogan, Final Score, page 264:

My copilot uttered, "I think we are headed for the bridge." No shit, Sherlock.

2006, Barry Morgan, Never Tell Them You're Dying, page 127:

I also find it a little bizarre that, in 2019, we are still seeing reports with names like “Rise of the SHEconomy” which point out that investing in female-focussed brands is probably a good idea. No SHEeet Sherlock!

2019 August 31, Arwa Mahdawi, “All the single ladies have been an economic force for a long time – marketers are just noticing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The latest line of heat records has been met with a response that climate scientists have made many times before. They say to stop records from tumbling the world needs to stop burning coal, oil, and natural gas. "It's a, 'No shit Sherlock,' moment," Dr Perkins Kirkpatrick said.

2024 June 5, Tyne Logan, Tom Saunders, “As 12 months of record heat stack up, scientists unpack the impacts around the globe”, in ABC News (Australia):

(vulgar, colloquial, sarcastic, somewhat derogatory) A riposte to someone who has just said something obvious.


I'll drink to that

I agree with that; I support that opinion.


schwing

The term is an onomatopoeia of the sound a sword makes when drawn from a metal scabbard. Popularized by the Wayne's World sketch on the television show Saturday Night Live.

What a babe! Schwing!

(slang, US) An exclamation of excitement or physical attraction.


참

First attested in the Seokbong cheonjamun (石峰千字文 / 석봉천자문), 1583, as Middle Korean ᄎᆞᆷ (Yale: chom). From Old Korean 眞音 (*CHOm).


어

ah!, oh!; conveys surprise, urgency, or strong emotion


bennaggia

ben(e) (“well, good”) + n' (“of it”) + aggia (third-person singular subjunctive of avé (“to have”)). Literally “may he/she/it have good things from it!”.

compound

third-person singular subjunctive of <i class="Latn mention" lang="nap">avé</i> (“to have”)


mannaggia

Borrowed from Neapolitan mannaggia (“damn!”, literally “may he/she/it have bad things from it!”).

bor+

Mannaggia a te!

Mannaggia, che guaio!


mannaggia

mal(e) (“bad, evil”) + n' (“of it”) + aggia (third-person singular subjunctive of avé (“to have”)). Literally “may he/she/it have bad things from it!”.

compound

Mannaggia 'e muorte tuje!


saakeli

[ˈs̠ɑ̝ːk̟e̞li]

Minced form of saatana, possibly influenced by perkele.


تمام

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تمام • (tamâm)

ota-interjection

تمام • (tamâm)


تمام

ajp-interjection

تمام • (tamām)


hear, hear

From 1689. Imperative, used as an exclamation to call attention to a speaker; now a general cry of approbation.

Hearty congratulations are in order to Selma for her successful completion of the curriculum. / Hear, hear!

(often after a toast) Let us hear and applaud the previous speaker; I endorse the previous statement; expression of support, agreement, or enthusiasm for what has just been said.


va te faire foutre

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(vulgar) go get fucked!; go fuck yourself!; fuck you!; fuck off!


συγγνώμη

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συγγνώμη • (syngnómi)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek συγγνώμη (sungnṓmē) and semantic loan from French pardon.


bonne journée

have a nice day (a phrase uttered upon a farewell)


bonne soirée

Have a good evening (a phrase uttered upon a farewell)


karibu

From Arabic قَرِيب (qarīb, “nearby”), also used to welcome a visitor in Omani Arabic. The sense "you're welcome" is a calque of English you're welcome.

you're welcome! (response to being thanked)


客氣

/kʰɤ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi¹/

/kʰɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/

/kʰaʔ²⁴⁻⁵³ ^((kʰ-))ɛi²¹³/

/kʰe(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ kʰi²¹/

/kʰe(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ kʰi²¹/

/kʰe(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ kʰi¹¹/

/kʰɛ(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ kʰi²¹/

/kʰeʔ²⁻⁴ kʰi²¹³/

/kʰaʔ³³ t͡ɕʰi⁴⁴/

/kʰɤ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi¹/

/kʰɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/

/kʰaʔ²⁴⁻⁵³ ^((kʰ-))ɛi²¹³/

/kʰe(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ kʰi²¹/

/kʰe(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ kʰi²¹/

/kʰe(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ kʰi¹¹/

/kʰɛ(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ kʰi²¹/

/kʰeʔ²⁻⁴ kʰi²¹³/

/kʰaʔ³³ t͡ɕʰi⁴⁴/


lumme

From Lor' lumme, a corruption of Lord love me. Compare gimme.

In a spasm of uncontrollable excitement James sucked his teeth. "Lumme, it wouldn't 'alf go on the movies, would it?" he remarked. "Better than them Red Indians and things."

1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 2, in Bulldog Drummond:


Qapla'

/q͡χɑpʰˈlɑʔ/

success (n) Qapla'

1985, Marc Okrand, The Klingon Dictionary, Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 103, 155:

It is hoped that this report . . . will help lead to the reconciliation of the two governments. Qapla'.

1996, Marc Okrand, The Klingon Way: A Warrior's Guide, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page x:

Maltz, we are honored to still be your students. Qapla'.

1997, Marc Okrand, Klingon for the Galactic Traveler, Pocket Books,, →ISBN, page 5:

Qapla!

2000, Brian Proffitt, Add Red Hat Linux 7 to your Windows desktop in a weekend, Prima Tech,, →ISBN, page 133:

Tina shrugged her shoulders, nodding helplessly. She was beat. “Qapla!” she said, grinning back at Leigh. / “Success!” Leigh laughed, translating the word from the alien Klingon language[…]

2000, Jacqueline Guest, Rookie Season, James Lorimer & Company,, →ISBN, page 5:

“Well, in that case, good luck and—er—Qapla'.”

2003, L. A. Graf et al., Day Of Honor: The bestselling Klingon™ saga—complete in one volume!:

Thank you for all the years of patiently being there, especially on those dark and stormy nights when things detonated unexpectedly and I needed rescuing yet again. Qapla'!

2004, Jacqueline Guest, Racing Fear, James Lorimer & Company, 5

2004, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Pam Brady, Team America: World Police, Paramount Pictures
Sean Penn: Qapla’!

Go forth and hack, Qapla!

2005 October 19-21, Andrew Chalmers, “Hurd is where I hide.”, AUUGN 2005: Conference Proceedings, Sydney, page 145

Unable to resist a sudden temptation, he threw out his arm in a Klingon salute. / “Qapla’!” / He vanished into the photo on his phone.

2009, Greg Cox, The 4400: Welcome to Promise City, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 187:

A phrase said to wish fortune on someone, particularly fortune in some form of honourable battle.


hillo

But, hillo! here comes another questioner for you, my poor quest.

1890, William Morris, News from Nowhere, in the journal The Commonweal. (First published in book form 1890.)

Why, hillo! Look here, now; this ain’t lucky! You’ve gone and cut this out of a Bible.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:


cac

From Middle Irish and Old Irish cacc (“dung, excrement”), from Proto-Celtic *kakkā.


и точка

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и то́чка! • (i tóčka!)

и то́чка ! (canonical)
i tóčka! (romanization)

(emphatic) period!, and nothing else!, and nothing less!


magari

From Greek μακάρι (makári, “I wish”), which is derived from Ancient Greek μακάριος (makários, “blessed, happy”). Compare Portuguese macar (“although”, conjunction), Spanish maguer (“although”, conjunction) and Romanian măcar (“even”, adverb).

cog

(colloquial) used to express the speaker's wish that the preceding statement were true; I wish!; if only!; yeah right!


와

Sound-symbolic; compare English wow, French ouah.

와, 여름이다!

whoa, wow, hurrah; an interjection of surprise or excitement.


困難

chữ Hán form of khốn nạn (“(offensive) Damn! Shit!”).


thanks for nothing

I brought another pencil for you, but I accidentally broke it. - Thanks for nothing; now I'll have to find yet another one.

(idiomatic, ironic) Expression of displeasure towards a person who has not provided what was wanted.


kapwing

(rare) The sound of something, such as a bullet, ricocheting violently off something else.


bwahaha

Bwahaha, they guffaw as they crush overheads into the corners with the same disdain they display when the clown ahead of them at the airport car-rental counter rents a Hyundai.

2002, Dave Whitehead, The Tennis Junkie's Guide (to Serious Humor), page 41:

“Bwa-ha-ha-ha,” came the unholy mirth from the cold white mask.

2005, Ron Fortier, Brother Grim, page 142:

written with spaces between the syllables

more additional instances of ha to the end

or by adding additional instances of the letter a in any syllable

(onomatopoeia, slang) Literary device used to express a fit of overwhelming or uncontrollable laughter, most frequently with a sinister connotation, see: evil laugh.


差不多

/ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵¹ b̥u¹ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰaː⁵⁵ pɐt̚⁵ tɔː⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰa⁴² pɨt̚² to⁴²/

/t͡sʰa⁵⁵⁻²¹ ⁽ᵖ⁻⁾βuʔ²⁴⁻²¹ to⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰa³³ put̚⁵⁻²⁴ to³³/

/t͡sʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ put̚³²⁻⁴ to⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰa⁴⁴⁻²² put̚³²⁻⁵ to⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰa⁴⁴⁻²² put̚³²⁻⁴ to⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ put̚³²⁻⁴ tɤ⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰat̚⁵⁻²⁴ to³³/

/ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵¹ b̥u¹ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰaː⁵⁵ pɐt̚⁵ tɔː⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰa⁴² pɨt̚² to⁴²/

/t͡sʰa⁵⁵⁻²¹ ⁽ᵖ⁻⁾βuʔ²⁴⁻²¹ to⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰa³³ put̚⁵⁻²⁴ to³³/

/t͡sʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ put̚³²⁻⁴ to⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰa⁴⁴⁻²² put̚³²⁻⁵ to⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰa⁴⁴⁻²² put̚³²⁻⁴ to⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ put̚³²⁻⁴ tɤ⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰat̚⁵⁻²⁴ to³³/


diavolo

From Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin diabolus (possibly semi-learned), itself from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

che diavolo fai?

the devil, the heck, the dickens, the deuce


lechuga

(informal, euphemistic) expresses anger, upsetness, or annoyance; euphemism for leche


that does it

That does it! I'm not waiting here any longer. I'll come back tomorrow instead.

(idiomatic) Used to express annoyance or frustration or announce that one has reached the limit of one's patience or temper.

ja basta

used to express annoyance or frustration

(idiomatic) Used to announce or assert completion of a task.


madonna

→ French: madone

→ Greek: μαντόνα (mantóna)

desc

→ Ottoman Turkish: منتونا (mantona, “mistress, concubine”)

→ Spanish: madona

(sometimes mildly vulgar, slang) express anger, astonishment, fear etc.


無要緊

/mo⁵³⁻²¹ ieu²¹³⁻⁵³ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾iŋ³³/

/bo²⁴⁻¹¹ iau¹¹⁻⁵³ kin⁵³/

/bo²⁴⁻²² iau²¹⁻⁵³ kin⁵³/

/bo²⁴⁻²² iau³¹⁻⁵³ kin⁵⁵/

/bɤ²⁴⁻³³ a⁵³⁻⁵⁵ kin⁵³/

/bo²⁴⁻³³ a⁵³⁻⁵⁵ kin⁵³/

/bɤ²³⁻³³ a⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kin⁴¹/

/bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ iau²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kiŋ⁵²/

/bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ iou²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kiŋ⁵²⁻²¹/

/mo⁵³⁻²¹ ieu²¹³⁻⁵³ ⁽ᵏ⁻⁾iŋ³³/

/bo²⁴⁻¹¹ iau¹¹⁻⁵³ kin⁵³/

/bo²⁴⁻²² iau²¹⁻⁵³ kin⁵³/

/bo²⁴⁻²² iau³¹⁻⁵³ kin⁵⁵/

/bɤ²⁴⁻³³ a⁵³⁻⁵⁵ kin⁵³/

/bo²⁴⁻³³ a⁵³⁻⁵⁵ kin⁵³/

/bɤ²³⁻³³ a⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kin⁴¹/

/bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ iau²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kiŋ⁵²/

/bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ iou²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kiŋ⁵²⁻²¹/

(Hakka, Eastern Min, Southern Min) no problem; it doesn't matter; never mind


那個

/neɪ̯⁵¹ g̊ə¹/

/naː¹³ kɔː³³/

/nã⁴¹⁻²² ko⁴¹/

/nã²²⁻²¹ ko²¹/

/neɪ̯⁵¹ g̊ə¹/

/naː¹³ kɔː³³/

/nã⁴¹⁻²² ko⁴¹/

/nã²²⁻²¹ ko²¹/

Umm... umm... sorry what were you saying just then?

Nèige...... Nèige...... Nǐ gāng nèige shuō shénme lái zhe?

那個……那個……你剛那個說什麼來著？

那个……那个……你刚那个说什么来着？

Used in speech as a filler uh; um; er; you know


jojo

An exclamation of disagreement or strongly reluctant agreement, often followed by a men (“but”) and a counterargument if the latter.


jojo

Jojo, så går det när man vägrar planera i förväg

Yup, that's what happens when you refuse to plan ahead

Jojo, jag tror faktiskt maskinen skulle fungera utmärkt, men den är onödig även om den fungerar

I agree. I actually think the machine would work great. But it's unnecessary even if it works.

Expresses that one (contrary to what the other person thinks) agrees (but has other objections).

Jojo, det kunde man inte tro om honom

I see, would never have guessed that about him

Expresses slight bewilderment at learning something.


WFC

(Internet slang) initialism of who fucking cares?


WFC

Initialism of English who fucking cares.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) who fucking cares?


哪裡

哪里
哪裏
那裡/那裏/那里

/nä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/naː¹³ lɵy̯¹³/

/la²¹³⁻²¹ li¹/

/nã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³/

/nã⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ li⁵⁵⁴/

/nã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³/

/nã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³/

/nã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ li⁴¹/

/na⁵²⁻³⁵ li⁵²⁻²¹/

/nä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/naː¹³ lɵy̯¹³/

/la²¹³⁻²¹ li¹/

/nã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³/

/nã⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ li⁵⁵⁴/

/nã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³/

/nã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³/

/nã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ li⁴¹/

/na⁵²⁻³⁵ li⁵²⁻²¹/

A: You are so beautiful! B: I'm flattered! [lit. Not so much]

Jiǎ: nǐ zhēn piàoliang! Yǐ: nǎlǐ, nǎlǐ, yībānbān!

甲：你真漂亮！乙：哪裡，哪裡，一般般！

甲：你真漂亮！乙：哪里，哪里，一般般！

You flatter me! (humble response to compliments)


не за что

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не́ за что • (né za što)

не́ за что (canonical)
né za što (romanization)

[ˈnʲe‿zə‿ʂtə]

Ru-не за что.ogg

Literally, “there's nothing for”. See also German da nicht für.

нечего нечего#Russian

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see нечего (nečevo), за (za).

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

not worth mentioning, nothing to speak of


feh

Directly imported from Yiddish פֿע (fe).

Kvola made a face. "It’s worse than an outhouse." She covered her nose. "Uh!" "It is" "Feh!" We all agreed and covered our noses. But Ma wasn't interested in our complaints.
...
It smelled like rotten food, stinking bodies, and stale air. Feh!

2005, Linda Glaser, Bridge to America: Based on a True Story, page 116:

"A gangster. Feh! Disgusting” she said roughly grabbing Marty by the arm. "We go across the street."

2000, Sidney Weissman, East Side Stories: Tales of Jewish Life in the Lower East Side of New York in the 1930’s, page 100:

"Look at it, how its pale skin blotches — and that evil-smelling thatch on top. Feh! The smell!

1980, Barry B. Longyear, Enemy Mine, page 81:


τετέλεσται

τετέλεσται • (tetélestai)

From Koine Greek τετέλεσται (tetélestai), the 3sg perfect passive form of Ancient Greek τελέω (teléō).

a dramatic pronouncement of impending death or other end


確實

/t͡ɕʰy̯ɛ⁵¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵/

/t͡ɕʰyo²¹ sz̩²¹/

/kʰɔːk̚³ sɐt̚²/

/kʰɔk̚¹ sət̚⁵/

/kʰouʔ²⁴⁻²¹ siʔ⁵/

/kʰak̚³²⁻⁴ sit̚⁴/

/kʰak̚⁵⁻²⁴ sit̚²⁴/

/kʰak̚³²⁻⁵ sit̚¹²¹/

/kʰak̚³²⁻⁴ sit̚⁴/

/kʰak̚³²⁻⁴ sit̚⁴/

/t͡ɕʰyɪʔ³³ zəʔ⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕʰioʔ³³ zəʔ⁴⁴/

/kʰo²⁴ ʂʐ̩²⁴/

/kʰo²⁴ sz̩²⁴/

/t͡ɕʰy̯ɛ⁵¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵/

/t͡ɕʰyo²¹ sz̩²¹/

/kʰɔːk̚³ sɐt̚²/

/kʰɔk̚¹ sət̚⁵/

/kʰouʔ²⁴⁻²¹ siʔ⁵/

/kʰak̚³²⁻⁴ sit̚⁴/

/kʰak̚⁵⁻²⁴ sit̚²⁴/

/kʰak̚³²⁻⁵ sit̚¹²¹/

/kʰak̚³²⁻⁴ sit̚⁴/

/kʰak̚³²⁻⁴ sit̚⁴/

/t͡ɕʰyɪʔ³³ zəʔ⁴⁴/

/t͡ɕʰioʔ³³ zəʔ⁴⁴/

/kʰo²⁴ ʂʐ̩²⁴/

/kʰo²⁴ sz̩²⁴/

(Internet slang) Indeed! (Possibly influenced by Japanese 確かに.)


де

да де, знам

върви́ де!

come on (to express encouragement, used at the end of a clause)

Пе́тър, брат ми де, дойде́.

to express clarification, used at the end of a clause; that is


グッジョブ

[ɡɯ̟d̚d͡ʑo̞bɯ̟]


nice one

(colloquial, Commonwealth) An exclamation of praise or encouragement.