nom

Onomatopoeic, variant of num, num-num. Attested 2004 as om nom, om nom nom, popularized from 2007 in internet use, second place in American Dialect Society "Word of the Year" 2010. From the catchphrase of Cookie Monster on Sesame Street, as at the end of “C Is For Cookie” (1971), made when devouring cookies. However, as late as 2009, this was canonically written with a ‘u’, as in S is For School! (2006), as “num num”, or in the press kit for the 40th season (2009), as “un num num num num”; by 2013 this was changed to the now-popular nom.

[to a baby] You are so cute, I could just eat you right up! Nom nom nom.

(colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating. Commonly used as "nom nom nom".

mjam mjam

interjection to denote enjoyment of eating


sento

Clipping of asento (“attention, ten-hut”).


jaja

Husk nu at holde øje med din søster! / Jaja, det skal jeg nok!

Do remember to keep an eye on your sister! / Yes, I will! [with the implication that the reminder has been made repeatedly before]

An exclamation of disappointed, reluctant or exasperated/annoyed agreement.


jaja

From ja (“yep”), literally "yeah-yeah" or "yep-yep".

Akkor ma este lesz a meccs, ugye? – Jaja.
So the match is today, right? – Yep yep.

(informal) Indicates approval or understanding of a trivial statement; reassurance of agreement.


jaja

An exclamation of disappointed or reluctant agreement.


jaja

Reduplication of ja. "Yeah yeah" should provide better intuition than "yes yes."

Jaja, okej då, du får en häst

Yeah yeah, alright, I'll buy you a horse

Jaja, vi har inte tid att snacka mer. Nu åker vi!

But whatever, we don't have time for any more chit-chat. Let's go!

Expresses impatience or irritation or the like.

(with the first "ja" emphasized) aah (I see)


Jesús

Borrowed from Latin Iēsus, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew ישוע (yeshúa).

bless you, gesundheit (said after a sneeze)


Jesús

From Latin Iēsus, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew ישוע (yēšūaʿ). The peculiar use of Jesús as a given name, unusual in most other traditionally Christian societies, has been ascribed to Arabic influence, in the sense that Christians during the Arab reign in Muslim Spain were influenced by the Muslim use of مُحَمَّد (muḥammad, “Muhammad”). Cognate with Sicilian Gisuzzu.


cringe

→ Arabic: كْرِنْج (krinj) (slang)

→ Armenian: քրինջ (kʻrinǰ) (slang)

desc

→ Belarusian: крынж (krynž), крындж (kryndž) (slang)

→ Bulgarian: криндж (krindž) (slang)

→ Georgian: ქრინჯ (krinǯ) (slang)

→ German: cringe, Cringe (slang)

→ Greek: κριντζ (krintz) (slang)

→ Hebrew: קרינג׳ (krinj), קרינצ' (krinch), קרינץ׳ (krinch) (slang)

→ Italian: cringe (slang)

→ Japanese: クリンジ (kurinji) (slang)

→ Lithuanian: krindžas (slang)

→ Polish: cringe, krindż (slang)

→ Portuguese: cringe (slang)

→ Romanian: cringe (slang)

→ Russian: кринж (krinž) (slang)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Latin script: krindž (slang)

Cyrillic script: кринџ (slang)

→ Spanish: cringe (slang)

→ Swedish: cringe (slang)

→ Turkish: krınj (slang)

→ Ukrainian: криндж (kryndž), крінж (krinž) (slang)

Charles Reade
The Cloister and the Hearth
zero derivation

The verb is derived from Middle English crengen (“to bend in a haughty manner; to condescend”) [and other forms], from Old English *crenċan, *crenċġan, *crenġan (“to cause to fall or turn”), the causative of crinċġan (“to yield; to cringe; to fall; to die, perish”), from Proto-Germanic *krangijaną (“to cause to fall; to cause to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *kringaną, *krinkaną (“to fall; to turn; to yield”) (from Proto-Indo-European *grenǵʰ- (“to turn”)) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives with the sense ‘to cause to do (the action of the verb)’ from strong verbs). The English word is cognate with Danish krænge (“to turn inside out, evert”), Dutch krengen (“to careen, veer”) and Dutch kring (“circle”), Scots crenge, creenge, creinge, crienge (“to cringe; to shrug”), Swedish kränga (“to careen; to heel, lurch; to toss”), and West Frisian kringe (“to pinch; to poke; to push; to insist, urge”); and is a doublet of crinkle.
The noun and adjective are derived from the verb via zero derivation.

ref

From Charles Reade (1861) chapter XXXIII, in The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages, illustrated library edition, volume II (The Autobiography of a Thief), Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Colonial Press Company, published c. 1900, →OCLC, illustration between pages 312 and 313.

nb...

crenche, crenchen, crenge, *crinchen, crinken

cog

(slang, derogatory) Stated in response to something cringeworthy.


välkommen

/²vɛːlˌkɔmːɛn/

Equivalent to väl + kommen. Cognate with Danish and Norwegian velkommen (“welcome”), and Icelandic velkomin (“welcome”).


unquote

From un- + quote; possibly an eggcorn of end quote.

Telegram for the Dover Boys, Messrs. Tom, Dick and Larry, care of Wayward Tavern, Upper Bottleneck, New York, sirs, quote, HEEEELP!, unquote, signed Dora. 35 cents collect.

1942, “The Dover Boys at Pimento University” (1:53 from the start), in Chuck Jones, director, Merrie Melodies, spoken by Telegram Boy:

Mackerras himself wrote, and I quote: "He is a prostitute, whose liaisons with perverts and sodomites were commonplace in his brief and forgettable career at Caius. Lock up the silverware." Unquote.

2012, Jim Broadbent as Vyvyan Ayrs, Cloud Atlas, circa 1:28:04

Used in speech to indicate the end of a quotation.


ROTFLMAO

Contraction of ROTFL + LMAO. Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass/Arse Off.

(Internet slang, text messaging, mildly vulgar) Used to express great amusement.


verdad

Inherited from Latin vēritātem, from vērus (“true, genuine”). Compare Catalan veritat, French vérité, Italian verità, Portuguese verdade.

No estás ebria, ¿verdad?


mercredi

Inherited from Old French mercredi, from Latin Mercuriī diēs, variant of diēs Mercuriī (“day of Mercury”).

(colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of merde; shoot, shucks


qué

(Provence, Switzerland) Isn’t it? Is it not?


auf Wiedersehen

Borrowed from German auf Wiedersehen (“goodbye”).


auf Wiedersehen

Literally, “until our reunion; that we may see again”. Probably a calque of French au revoir. Compare further Italian arrivederci, German Low German up Wiederseihen (Paderbornisch), Dutch tot ziens, English until we meet again and see you, and similar forms in many languages of the world.

cog

Und während die beiden Enkel auf dem Bahnhof mit festem Händedruck und einem „Auf Wiedersehen!“ voneinander Abschied nahmen und jeder seines Weges seinem Geschick entgegenschritt, sann Großmama in dem der Heimat zurollenden Zuge nach, wie schön alles werden sollte, […]

1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen (Zwei Erzählungen; 1), Phillipp Reclam jun., pages 63–64:

And while the two grandchildren bid farewell to each other on the station with a firm handshake and a "Goodbye!" and each walked his way toward his fate, grandma contemplated in the homeward rolling train how beautiful everything should become […]


tungjatjeta

From an enclitic tu + (n)gjat(ë) + jeta, literal meaning 'may your life be prolonged'.


yahoo

"Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!"

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521:


congrats

You were cast in the show? Congrats!


öö

öö, tuota...


já

From Old Norse já (“yes”), Proto-Germanic *ja (“yes”).

(informal) yes (as an exclamation of joy or excitement)


já

Icelandic: já

Faroese: ja

Norwegian Nynorsk: ja

Norwegian Bokmål: ja

Old Swedish: iā

Swedish: ja

→ Finnish: jaa

Danish: ja, jo


shazbot

Popularised by the character Mork (played by Robin Williams) on the American television sitcom Mork & Mindy (1978).

Shazbot, I missed!

1978 February 28, “My Favorite Orkan”, in Happy Days, season 5, episode 22, spoken by Mork (Robin Williams):

I spent the next frantic seconds (felt like a year, actually) trying to disentangle myself from the pole while the crowd and the contestants guffawed. Shazbot!

2005 December 29, Diablo Cody, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper, Gotham, →ISBN, →OL, page 26:

When I lurch back toward where I can make out what CNN is saying, CNN has broken for commercial. Shazbot!

2011 May 10, Roy Blount Jr., Alphabetter Juice: or, The Joy of Text, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →OL, page 149:

(slang) An excited utterance used to convey disappointment, particularly as a euphemism for shit.


kinda

Written form of a reduction (apocope) or pronunciation spelling of kind of.

"Are you afraid of a little bit of rain?" "Kinda, yeah."

Ah, I see. Meely doesn't tease you. You're best friends, is that right? / Kinda.

2000, Ken Wells, Meely LaBauve, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 212:

Yes in some respects but no in other respects.


abs

(Internet slang, text messaging) used to close an informal message or e-mail, or as a goodbye on text messaging


ama

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

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


abbasso

Abbasso il re!


namaste

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit नमस्ते (namaste, literally “salutation to you”).

lbor

First of all, Namaste to you! It is my sincere hope that the words of this book will assist you in living with full appreciation for all the moments of your life. Remember that each one is special and brings something to your life[…]

2011 October 1, Cheri Ruskus, Victory One Moment at a Time: Unlocking the Power of the Master Mind, Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN:

I shuffled from one foot to the other outside the room, as I delayed going in. Finally, I took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and knocked on the door. 'Come in.' It seemed that Vimla was expecting me. 'Namaste.' She said, and gestured for me ...

2013, Susan Clare, Namaste Baby: A Journey to Surrogacy in India, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 241:

"What a lovely wedding for you both. Namaste," he said, his hands in prayer formation, his smile wide and confident and sincere. “Congratulations to you both.” “Thank you, Father,” Brian said. “Namaste to you, sir,” Priya added.

2020 August 17, Paul Bouchard, Priya’s Choice, iUniverse, →ISBN:

A greeting in contexts relating to Indian culture or the New Age movement.


всё

→ Armenian: ֆսյո (fsyo)

→ Georgian: ვსიო (vsio)

Ну всё! Я ухожу́.

(colloquial) Used to express that one is fed up or has had enough; that's it

Всё, по́нял.

Всё, всё, всё, на сего́дня хва́тит. ― Vsjo, vsjo, vsjo, na sevódnja xvátit. ― Alright, alright, alright, that's enough for today.

Всё, мне пора́ (идти́). ― Vsjo, mne porá (idtí). ― Alright, it's time for me to head off.

(colloquial) Used to express the completion/achievement of something or that something is enough/sufficient (and often also the desire to move on to something else); alright, okay


bis

Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).


bis

Learned borrowing from Latin bis. Doublet of twee and duo.


bis

encore! (used by an audience to request a second performance)


gotcha

Gotcha! Go on in...

I got you covered, I got your back (said by a speaker who has an advantage or responsibility over someone).

Gotcha! And don't ever do that to me again.

I caught you (as when successfully bringing someone to reckoning or effecting some form of retribution).

Gotcha! You never noticed the whoopie cushion!

I got you by surprise (indicating a successful trick or prank).

Gotcha! You just want me to stay here for now.


ner

Formed by onomatopoeia. The extended form is neener.

You're wrong, so ner!

I don't care what you think, so ner!

I've got more sweets than you. Ner ner ner ner ner!

(slang, childish) An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.


vamos

come on! (an expression of encouragement)


vamos

English: vamoose

From Latin vādāmus, the present subjunctive form, replacing Old Spanish imos in the indicative. Compare the analogical form, vayamos, which is the Spanish present subjunctive form.


ew

Onomatopoeic, ideophonic. Compare oh, ugh.

Ew! There’s a fly in my soup.

Ew! This peanut butter tastes disgusting!


fie

From Latin fī via Old French and Middle English (with a possible additional influence from Old Norse). Compare Swedish fy.

Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 229, column 1:

Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 89:

"Fie upon them, forgetting their philosophy!"

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

I pleaded with my companions to spare his life, and they said, ‘Fie! shame upon you! You have a Chinese heart.’ Then they turned upon me to kill me as well, so I withdrew my petition. After that they cut off the woodsman's head, and we returned home.

1920 March, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff (quote sourced to Kim Soan), “Formosa the Beautiful”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 284–285:

But the orthodox scientific world says fie! to the religious impulse. The scientist wants to discover a cause for everything.

1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Introduction”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 4:

(archaic) Sometimes followed by on or upon: used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage.


condolences

From Latin condoleo (“I feel another's pain”).

uder

"What were you doing at the cemetery?"
 "Burying my father."
 "Oh." Rodionov grunted as if he had expected a more imaginative excuse. "Condolences."

1992, Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square, page 120:

Let's get another caller on the line. This is Camille. Camille with us from Visalia in California.
 Visalia, California that's correct.
 Go ahead please.
 Hi. I'm an African-American woman and when I first saw the cover – let me preface this. I'm in central California, which is very conservative. And...
 Condolences.

2008 July 15, NPR, “When Does It Go Too Far?”, in Talk of the Nation:

Expressing sympathy to someone, especially after learning of a close death.


psych

Here, have fifty dollars. Psych! That was two dollars!

I broke up with my ex girl. Here's her number. Psych! That's the wrong number!

(slang) Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled one's interlocutor.

Psych! I just found my missing bracelet!

(dated, slang) An interjection of surprised happiness.


mezanmi

Used for emphasis or to express surprise.


mdr

(Internet slang, text messaging) initialism of multe da ridoj (“many laughs, LOL”)


mdr

Initialism of mort de rire (literally “dead of laughter”).

initialism

mdr c trop bon ça


what a way to go

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(set phrase) A remark on the unfortunate, exceptional, or unusual nature of somebody's death.


bula

From Proto-Central Pacific *wola, from Proto-Oceanic *wola, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wada (“to exist”).


cripes

(euphemistic) A mild curse or expression of surprise.


hasta

From Spanish hasta (“until”), especially hasta luego (“until later”).


tuku

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


uu

uu aqbad u mur!

Used to express impatience (the lengthier the more impatient).


yikes

Attested from mid-20th century, perhaps derived from yoicks, a hunting call used to urge hounds after a fox, which is attested from 1765–1775, that also is sometimes used as an exclamation of excitement or triumph. Yoicks is perhaps related to the earlier hoicks. Hoicks (alternatively hoick, hoic or hoik) is a variant of hyke, which was used as an exclamation of encouragement to hounds hunting deer. Further etymology unknown.
Alternatively, it may be derived from yipes, which is an earlier exclamation of similar usage as yikes (and is often considered to be an alternative form of yikes). Yipes may be derived from yipe, which itself may be derived from the yie sound often used to express pain or dismay, with the -p adding onto it in the same way as yep and nope. Or, yipes may be derived from the yipping sound that dogs make.
Or, possibly a conflation of both of the previous.

wow

Wow!; Note: can also be used for a pleasant surprise

Yikes! A monster!

Then she told me I was ‘beautiful, for a black girl’. —Yikes!

John has lost his job and can't pay his mortgage; yikes!

Expression of empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances.

ve

expression of empathy with unpleasant or undesirable circumstances


carajo

Chavacano: carajo

→ Cebuano: karaho

→ German: Karacho

The etymology is uncertain, but the most plausible source on the basis of both semantics and historical phonology appears to be unattested Vulgar Latin *c(h)araculum (“stick, rod”), which would have been a Latinized diminutive of Ancient Greek χάραξ (khárax, “stick”), from χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr).
Certain cognates include Portuguese caralho, Galician carallo and Catalan carall. Some claim that attempts to attribute Italian cazzo, with the same meaning, to the same etymon fail on phonological grounds, as the /r/ of carajo (or its absence in cazzo) remains unexplained, and no Latin phonological sequence develops as both /x/ in Spanish and /tts/ in Italian. However, the aforementioned carassus (“empty”) may be cognate with the word "carajo".

der

(South America, Northwestern Spain, vulgar) shit!

¿Qué carajo quieres?

(slang, vulgar) used as an intensifier, similar to the fuck


way to go

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The team finished ahead of schedule and under budget. Way to go!

An expression of congratulations, encouragement, or approval.

好样的，加油！

expression of congrats, encouragement or approval


гей

Inherited from Old Slovak hej, of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Polish and Slovak hej.

гей, сушед!


гей

Ямщи́к поверну́л к воро́там, останови́л лошаде́й; лаке́й Лавре́цкого приподня́лся на ко́злах и, как бы гото́вясь соскочи́ть, закрича́л: «Гей!».

1859, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “Глава 18”, in Дворянское гнездо; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., A House of Gentlefolk, 1917:

The coachman drove to the gates and drew up; Lavretsky's groom stood up on the box and as though in preparation for jumping down, shouted, "Hey!"

Jamščík povernúl k vorótam, ostanovíl lošadéj; lakéj Lavréckovo pripodnjálsja na kózlax i, kak by gotóvjasʹ soskočítʹ, zakričál: «Gej!».


kk

(Internet slang) Alternative form of kkk


nm

A: well r u goi – B: huh? – A: nm tht was a mistake

(Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of never mind.


lipa

the sound of an animal (like a cat or a dog) slurping water


Alder

Das Achtnull, das war Brasil, Alder, verstehst du, der Freistoß, Alder? Die standen am Ball, São Paulo, Straße, und haben Späßchen gemacht, Alder. Verstehst du, gejoket haben die, Riolike, Alder! Ich sach’s dir.

2002 June 5, Henning Harnisch, “Deutschtalk mit Alter Ego”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN, page 18:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of Alter (“dude, mate”).


all right

All right, let's go then.

Presently there came a loud ring, then a decided voice, asking for 'Mr. Laurie', and a surprised-looking servant came running up to announce a young lady. "All right, show her up, it's Miss Jo," said Laurie, going to the door of his little parlor to meet Jo, who appeared, looking rosy and quite at her ease, with a covered dish in one hand and Beth's three kittens in the other.

Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent.

حَسَنًا

Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent (1)

All right! They scored!

Used to indicate support, favor or encouragement.

prima

Used to indicate support, favor or encouragement (2)

All right, so what you suggest we do next?

All right, let's get started.

dus

Used as a general lead-in or beginning (4)

All right, already! Let me finish what I was doing first, and then we can talk.

Used to express exasperation or frustration, often reduplicated or with already.

no niin

Used to express exasperation or frustration, often with already (5)

schon gut

occasionally doubled in case of impatience, e. g. when the one you're speaking to takes too long to get to the point

All right, mate, how are things with you and the missus?

(UK, informal) Term of greeting, equivalent to how are you or hello.

mitäs sä

a greeting, roughly equivalent to how are you (6)


all right

/ˀoʊ̯⁵¹ laɪ̯¹/

/ˀoʊ̯⁵¹ laɪ̯¹/

From Japanese オーライ (ōrai), from English all right.

閉塞，all right

闭塞，all right

(Taiwan, rail transport, point and call)


не

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne. Cognates include Lithuanian ne, Old English ne, Gothic 𐌽𐌹 (ni), Irish ní, Latin ne, Sanskrit न (ná).

Помо́жешь мне? Не, да́же и не ду́май.

Will you help me? No, don't even think about it.

(colloquial) no (used to show disagreement or negation)


не

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *ne.

Да ли си демократа? Не!


mercy

From Middle English mercy, merci, from Anglo-Norman merci (compare continental Old French merci, mercit), from Latin mercēs (“wages, fee, price”), from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Displaced native Old English mildheortnes. Cognate with French merci, whence the doublet merci.

Mercy! Look at the state of you!


foi

— Pode enviar a mensagem? — Foi.

(Brazil) indicates that an action has been undertaken; done


Amen

Alternative letter-case form of amen (“so be it; may it be done”).


digo

Comprei dez ovos. Digo, doze.


digo

¡Buf, qué aburrido! Digo, el placer fue mío.

How boring! I mean, the pleasure was all mine.

I mean; used to explain or correct a previous utterance


Bingo

The discovery of this woman’s body suddenly threw a complex of apparently unrelated incidents into an integrated whole. You grind away at routine, you collect a vast amount of data ninety-per-cent of which is useless and then—some thing happens and Bingo—the other ten-per-cent sits up like Jacky and Bob’s your uncle.

1968, Ngaio Marsh, “Ramsdyke”, in Clutch of Constables, London: The Companion Book Club, →OCLC, page 125:

I have this feeling of inadequacy because I can’t have any children. As a little girl, you’re playing with dolls and all this and you’re prepared right from when you are a little one. […] You’re prepared for this whole thing and then Bingo!—you can’t and you have to start thinking differently.

1989, Kerry Daly, quoting Andrea, “Anger Among Prospective Adoptive Parents: Structural Determinants and Management Strategies”, in Clinical Sociology Review, volume 7, East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, section “Theories and Methods of Clinical Sociology”, page 84:

"Hey Doug, what if you draw a line connecting each location; what does it look like to you?" / Doug mulls over the question for a second, sensing Marcello may be onto something. Then the light bulb goes on. "It looks like a set up for your basic three prong attack, is what it looks like." / "Exactly, Bingo . . . If you were going to hit the U.S. from the South, you would cut off the major transportation arteries and then make your push northward at three points to provide maximum flexible response."

2015 October 13, Robert Dudley, Marc A. DeSimone, Sr., “Around 3:00 A.M. Mount Weather, VA”, in Last Shepherd: A Novel, Middletown, Del., →ISBN, page 189:


Alter

Switzerland, some of Germany and Austria

Alter, was denn hier los?

(colloquial, chiefly slang) man, dude, mate; used for emphasis


bow-wow

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Harke, harke, bowgh wawgh: the watch-Dogges barke, bowgh-wawgh.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 5, column 1:

She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.

1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London: [s.n.], 1870], →OCLC, page 181:

Representing the sound of a dog barking.


scramble

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from earlier dialectal scramble, scrammel (“to collect or rake together with the hands”), from scramb (“to pull or scrape together with the hands”) + -le (frequentative suffix) (compare Dutch schrammen (“to graze, brush, scratch”)); or alternatively from a nasalised form of scrabble (“to scrape or scratch quickly”).

cog

(UK) Shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item, causing them to rush for it.


salute

From Latin salūtem, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, completed”).


mari

From Malay mari, from Proto-Malayic *mari, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi.


mari

→ Negeri Sembilan Malay: maghih

From Proto-Malayic *mari, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maʀi.


Kappa

From English kappa, borrowed from Japanese 河童 (kappa, “water imp”). Included as an Easter Egg by an early Twitch employee.

(Internet) Used to indicate sarcasm in imitation of Kappa as used on Twitch.tv


Mist

From Middle High German mist, from Old High German mist, from Proto-West Germanic *mistu. Cognate with Dutch mest, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (maihstus).


Mensch

From Middle High German mensche, mensch, from Old High German mennisko, a substantivization of the adjective mennisk, from Proto-West Germanic *mannisk, from Proto-Germanic *manniskaz (“human”), from Proto-Germanic *mann- (“human, man”). Compare Yiddish מענטש (mentsh), Dutch mens, Swedish människa, all with the primary sense of “person” or “human being”.


Gemini

Perhaps identical with the above (compare Latin ēdepol (“by Pollux”), ēcastor (“by Castor”)), but perhaps more likely distinct in origin: compare Dutch jemenie, jemie, German gemine, jemine, Czech jémine, all ultimately shortened from Latin Iēsū domine (“O Lord Jesus”).

Obsolete form of jiminy (“an expression of mild surprise or annoyance”).


Polo

From Marco Polo, from Latin Marcus Paulus, from Paulus.

Shouted by a player of the game Marco Polo. Compare Marco.


Batman

From bat + man; originally the Bat-Man. By surface analysis, Bat- + man.

Holy guacamole, Batman!

Holy nostalgic flashback, Batman! Aly and AJ Michalka, the actor-musician sister duo known for dominating Radio Disney in the late aughts (they’ve also released some very good music since then), just sent us straight back to our tweens by wearing none other than iconic mall brand Limited Too.

2024 July 1, Elizabeth Logan, “Aly & AJ in the New Limited Too Collection Has Me Checking What Year It Is”, in Glamour:

An intensifier for interjections created with the adjective holy, in imitation of dialogue between Batman and his sidekick Robin.


ka

Hawaiian language
Maori language
Proto-Polynesian language

From Proto-Polynesian *ka-, *ka. Cognates include Hawaiian ʻa- and Maori ka.

¡Ka ma'itaki 'ō!

Intensifies the following verb; how! what a!


Tore

The letter "T" in the Swedish spelling alphabet


Tag

Abbreviation of the greeting guten Tag (“good day”).

northern Germany and parts of central Germany; now chiefly colloquial

parts of central Germany; Franconia, Lower Bavaria; now chiefly colloquial


Walker

“Do you know the Poulterer’s, in the next street but one, at the corner?” Scrooge inquired.
“I should hope I did,” replied the lad.
“An intelligent boy!” said Scrooge. “A remarkable boy! Do you know whether they’ve sold the prize Turkey that was hanging up there?—Not the little prize Turkey: the big one?” […] “Go and buy it.”
“Walk-er!” exclaimed the boy.
“No, no,” said Scrooge, “I am in earnest. Go and buy it, and tell ’em to bring it here, that I may give them the direction where to take it. Come back with the man, and I’ll give you a shilling. Come back with him in less than five minutes and I’ll give you half-a-crown!”

1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Stave Five:

(UK, archaic, slang) Expressing scornful rejection or disbelief.


hf

(Internet slang) Abbreviation of have fun.


О

wow (used to express approving amazement)


jess

(informal) yes (exclamation of satisfaction, joy, etc.)


br

FORTUNATO - Br... Br... It's cold... (Looks for towel.) Don't you want to freshen up a little? / PHYLLIS (without turning) No thanks. / FORTUNATO - I will not look. I'll admire the view from the window ... Like you ... (slapping his chest)[…]

1972, Mario Fratti, Theatre: The Seducers: The Roman Guest, page 32:

Br - I'm cold, friend. Why don't you make up a fire to warm us all?

1980, Vajiravudh, Pʼra Ruang: Drama in Verse, page 30:

Br ... It's freezing in here! I don't suppose they can afford heating these days...

2008, Annie Tempest, “Tottering-By-Gently”, in Country Life Illustrated, volume 202, page 96:

My hair is wet. My nose is wet. My ears are wet. My legs are wet. Blouse. Trousers. Jumper. Dress. Everything is wet! Br. It's cold. The nest is too cold. I want a house.

(rare) Alternative form of brr (“expressing cold and shivering”)


vaya

expresses surprise: wow!, why, oh!, whoa!, well!, man!, boy!

expresses dismay, worry, indignation or frustration: gee!, jeez!, gosh!, why, man!, oh dear!

¡Vaya coche que tiene tu hermana!

No me gustan las gambas, las almejas... El marisco, vaya.

I don't like shrimp, clams... Seafood, you know.

(colloquial, at the end of a sentence) you know, like, y'know

go!, leave!, go away! (technically an imperative but can function as an interjection in this sense)


gesundheit

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From German Gesundheit (literally “health”), from gesund (“healthy”). The adjective is cognate with English sound, from Old English ġesund (“sound, safe, healthy”).

cog

Everybody Was at It, and There Was No One to Say Gesundheit

1897 July 24, “SNEEZES INTERRUPTED COURT”, in The Albany Law Journal, volume 56, number 4, page 67:

I used to play a game with David and Douggie, Dennis and Drew — stop their sneezes midsniff just by placing my pinkie finger against their nostrils and saying gesundheit before it was time.

2000, Abby Frucht, Polly's Ghost: A Novel (Fiction), Scribner, →ISBN, page 55:

(Canada, US) Said to someone who has just sneezed.

Flynn: All right, Blondie.
Rapunzel: Rapunzel!
Flynn: Gesundheit.

2010 November 7, Dan Fogelman, directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, Tangled, Walt Disney Pictures:

(humorous) Said in response to a word that sounds onomatopoeically similar to a sneeze.


gesundheit

From German Gesundheit (literally “health”).

Ik bleef haar aanstaren en moest niezen. Zij bleef lachen en zei: 'Gesundheit.'

2000, Harry Mulisch, Gerrit Komrij, Adriaan van Dis, Maarten 't Hart, Remco Campert, Marga Minco, Hugo Claus, De Schrijver: een literaire estafette, De Bezige Bij, →ISBN, page 142:

I kept staring at her and had to sneeze. She kept laughing and said: 'Bless you.'

'Ja, dat mag. En neem Heidi even mee, alsjeblieft. Ze zit weer te niezen.' Heidi was inderdaad aan het niezen – een hele serie zachte maar spetterende niesjes. 'Gesundheit,' zei Merrick.

2015, Anne Tyler, De blauwe draad, Prometheus, →ISBN, page 96:

'Yes, that's alright. And take Heidi, please. She's sneezing again.' Heidi was sneezing indeed – a series of soft but splattering sneezes. 'Bless you,' said Merrick.

'Gesundheit,' zei hij toen ik moest niezen.

2016, Hans Bogaert, Echo, De Bezige Bij, →ISBN, page 60:

Ik nam een te grote slok water en moest niezen vanwege de prik. 'Gesundheit. Maar er is nog een andere auto gevonden, in Lautenthal zelf.'

2016, Marjolijn Uitzinger, De partijgenoot, Singel Uitgeverijen, →ISBN, page 147:

I took too big of a gulp of water en had to sneeze because it was fizzy water. 'Bless you. But another has been found, in Lautenthal.'

(Netherlands) Said to someone who has just sneezed, bless you


PK

/pʰʊk̚⁵ kaːi̯⁵⁵/

/pʰʊk̚⁵ kaːi̯⁵⁵/

Initialism of 仆街 (puk1 gaai1, “bitch; jerk, etc.”).


PK

/pʰiː⁵⁵ kʰei̯⁵⁵/

/pʰiː⁵⁵ kʰei̯⁵⁵/


F

big F for google maps

2022 March 18, Linus Tech Tips, tweet by @LinusTech:

(Internet slang, Twitch) Used to indicate regret for an unfortunate event.


nacht

From Old Frisian nacht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.


wacko

"Wacko! There's a whole pile of letters for me," Jennings cried excitedly, hopping from one foot to the other.

1952, Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings and Darbishire:


Judas

From Middle English Iudas, from Latin Iudas, from Ancient Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas), from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá). Doublet of Judah.

(minced oath, archaic) Jesus! (an exclamation used to express shock or surprise at something negative)


mande

(Mexico, Philippines, polite) Used as a polite invitation for a person to state what they need, want, etc.


tg

(Internet slang, informal, vulgar) Abbreviation of ta gueule.


cu

Interjection used repeatly to call those hiding in hide and seek


cu

"Cu'da bomba patlamış, duydun mu?" "Cu neresi?" "ANANIN AMCUĞUUUUU"

(chiefly Internet, humorous) An interjection designed to rhyme with "ananın amcuğu" (especially used to trick a person into asking the meaning).


cu

From Proto-Vietic *t-kuː (“dove”); ultimately onomatopoeic. Cognate with Kha Phong təkuː¹. Compare Thai เขา (kǎo), Chinese 鳩 (OC *[k](r)u) (B-S), Burmese ခို (hkui), English coo.
This is the form without both diphthongization and lenition. Also in common use are câu, bồ câu, both with diphthongization. The form gâu (in chim gâu) with both diphthongization and lenition is also attested.


cu

East Slavic:

desc

Ukrainian: цу-цу́ (cu-cú), цю-цю́ (cju-cjú)

Russian: цуцу́-цуцу́ (cucú-cucú)

South Slavic:

Serbo-Croatian:

⇒ Cyrillic script: цу̏ки

⇒ Latin script: cȕki

West Slavic:

Polish: ciu, ciu-ciu, ciucia, a ciu, a cucu (dialectal)

Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: tśu tśu

⇒ Lower Sorbian: tśuko tśuko

Upper Sorbian: ću ću

Onomatopoeic. Compare Lithuanian cū, čiú čiú, ćiuciũ, Latvian cu, ciũ, German zschu.


DV

Initialism of Deo volente (God willing).


ms

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of mersi (“thanks”).


deiseal

Borrowed from Irish deiseal, from Old Irish dessel, from dess (“right, south”) + sel (“turn”).

If a person's meat or drink were to […] come against his breath, they instantly cry out, Deisheal! which is an ejaculation praying that it may go the right way.

1794, Statistical Account of Scotland: Perthshire, section 11.521:

A deprecation meaning May it go right, said to someone who sneezes or swallows something awry.


deiseal

deiseal! (canonical)
deiseal
dheiseal
ndeiseal

From Old Irish dessel, from dess (“right, south”) and sel (“turn”).

bless you (said after someone has sneezed)


my bad

Pick-up basketball slang popularized (but not first coined) by Manute Bol, a basketball player of Sudanese origin playing with the Golden State Warriors, and subsequently adopted by teammates. Compare semantics with Russian оплошность (oplošnostʹ, “mistake, bad”), from о- (o-) + плох (plox, “bad”).

m+

Yes, I realise the car isn't supposed to be parked in the heirloom flowerbed. My bad.

DMV Tester: Watch out for the bike rid…!
Cher: [swerving car to avoid cyclist] Oops! My bad!

(colloquial, idiomatic) My fault; mea culpa.


whisht

From Middle English qwyst, whisht, whist, imitative, though perhaps influenced by other verbs in wh- used in the imperative or by hust (adjective).

“You must have loved him very much,” she said.
“Whisht,” said the old woman, “there’s a word that you must never use until there's marrying between you […]”

1952, Neville Shute, chapter 9, in The Far Country, London: Heinemann:

(Ireland; British, especially Scotland, Northumbria) Shush, silence, be quiet!

A sound often used to calm livestock, cattle, sheep etc.


whisht

From Scottish Gaelic èist (“listen, harken”).

Whisht, bairns! mind it’s the Sabbath day.

1883, Margaret Oliphant, It was a Lover and his Lass, page 49:

Hush, children! Remember that it’s the Sabbath day.


mali

(Near Masovian, often repeated) used to call pigs


Lord

See lord.
In reference to the God of the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Bible, originally a translation (attested from the late Old English form hlāford) of the Vulgate Latin Dominus (“master of a house; lord”), translating the New Testament and the Septuagint's Ancient Greek ὁ κύριος or Κύριος (ó kýrios, "the supreme one; Lord, Kyrios"), both in reference to Hebrew אֲדֹנָי (ʾdny, "my lord; my Lord, Adonai") from אדון (ʾdwn, "lord, patron; Lord") + י- (-y, "my"), cognate with Phoenician 𐤀𐤃𐤍 (ʾdn, "lord; Lord, Adon"). Adonai appears in the Tanakh both directly and as a euphemism read aloud during occurrences of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH, "I Am that I Am; Jehovah"). See the usage notes below. Displaced the earlier term Drighten.

der

O Lord I must laugh.

c. 1595, William Shakespeare, The Comedie of Errors, published 1623, iii. i. 50:

(originally an invocation) An interjection variously expressing astonishment, surprise, resignation.


good-by

“Good-by, then,” said Phœbe, frankly. “I do not mean to be angry a great while, and should be sorry to have you think so. There has Cousin Hepzibah been standing in the shadow of the door-way, this quarter of an hour past! She thinks I stay too long in the damp garden. So, good-night, and good-by!”

1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Phœbe’s Good-by”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 235:


mach

used when some action is performed swiftly


G

Pupunta kami sa Intramuros ngayon. G?

We'll be going to Intramuros today. You in?

Pupunta kayo sa Intramuros ngayon? G! Sama ako!

You'll be going to Intramuros today? Game! I'll join.

(slang) a signal that the speaker is interested or ready to be part of an activity: game!; ready!


D

CAPTAIN. I never use a big, big D— ALL. What, never? CAPTAIN. No, never! ALL. What, never? CAPTAIN. Hardly ever! ALL. Hardly ever swears a big, big D—

1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “I am the Captain of the Pinafore”, in H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:


oki

Udit: […] U can go if u want. We can do something on Sat. As long as I don’t destroy my self^([sic]) on Fri night. Me: Oki, good to know! Saturday it is! (If we aren’t destroyed=)

2014, Hannah Tronnes, “Krishna’s birthday”, in No-Shukriya (There's No Need to Say Thank You), Partridge India, →ISBN:

The buffalo hides were then placed over the entire structure and, after several hours of work, Billy said, “Oki, looking good. Now I need you to gather up a bunch of rocks about the size of my head.”

2016 May 6, Charles Still Waters, chapter 23, in Two-Fingers and the White Guy: The Search Continues, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

“You aren’t going to follow me, oki?” / “I won’t if you don’t follow me and try to steal my watch again,” Jase retorted holding out his hand to shake. / Tahmela shook it, his thin lips parting into a smirk. “Oki for now.”

2020, Sammy Jo Pendergrast, “Unexpected Visitor”, in Bluestar, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 51:

Clean the apartment? Yes, no question! Show me where to go, Uncle. Just promise me, don't touch me! Oki?

2021, Sergey Zhuravlev, “A worthless thing is something that a person does, guided only by his own benefit”, in Kneading on Love (The Golden Billion; 1), Sunray, →ISBN:

Emre: […] So what’s the genre of the book? I mean, fantasy? Crime? Horror? / Me: Realistic. / Emre: Oki. Haha. Perhaps, you can tell me the summary. Cause I haven’t read it before.

2022, Anastasiia Deniz Mitchell, “19 December 2017”, in Don’t Fall in Love with an Aquarius: Don’t Trust a Libra, volume 1, Litres, →ISBN:


cambio

Deverbal from cambiar. Compare Italian cambio, Portuguese câmbio, and Catalan canvi.

¡Cambio y corto!


here goes nothing

Well, I checked everything and I think it's wired up correctly, so I guess all that's left is to turn it on. Here goes nothing!

(idiomatic) Indicates a lack of confidence or certainty about the activity about to be tried.

管不了那麽多了

indicates a lack of confidence or certainty


mv

(vulgar, Internet slang, text messaging) what the fuck


joe

Joe!


fuego

Inherited from Old Spanish fuego, from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”). The form huego, which began to be used around 1500, was mostly replaced by the form starting with -f-. Compare Portuguese fogo. Cognate with English fuel. Compare also English focus. Doublet of foco, which is a borrowing from Latin.

(military) fire! (cry to order soldiers to start shooting)


graag gedaan

you're welcome; my pleasure (after being thanked); literally: gladly done


godmorgon

gomorron (alternative)
gomorn (alternative)
morron (alternative)


jura

really? (sarcastically indicating that something was obvious)


come again

"Who says he did?" / "Aubry." / "Yeah? A guy in for murder? Come again." / "Glad to. Beebe says so too."

1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, page 120

Vincent: A "please" would be nice. / The Wolf: Come again? / Vincent: I said a "please" would be nice. / The Wolf: Get it straight, Buster. I'm not here to say "please". I'm here to tell you what to do.

(idiomatic, informal, by ellipsis) A polite formula used when one has not heard or understood what has been said, or to indicate surprise.

(idiomatic) Used as a polite farewell to a visitor, inviting a return visit.


como

From Old Galician-Portuguese como (“how; in what way”), from Latin cōmō̆, a non-literary form of quōmodo.

inh

(interrogative) what? sorry? pardon? (used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly)


K

K, dad, I'll go to my room.

2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 23:

(colloquial, text messaging, Internet slang) OK


satan

Satan! Det gjer vondt!

Satan då!


satan

Satan också!

Sluta föra sånt satans oväsen!

Spelet är svårt som satan

(vulgar) Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc. A swear word.


drop dead

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Compare Dutch doodvallen and the expletive "val dood!".

“Whatta ya say, goils? I'll take the botha ya, only later, like, well, you know, like later onea ya can split and go home.”[…]“Drop dead,” Rachel said with a smile.

1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, pages 7–8:

[to Kramer] Are you dense? I said I wanted you to drop dead. Now... drop dead! [slams the door in Kramer's face]

1997, Peter Mehlman, David Mandel, “The Betrayal”, in Seinfeld, season 9, episode 8, spoken by Franklin Delano Romanowski (Michael McShane):

Used angrily to express disgust, contempt, derision, etc., toward another person.


arrah

"Whisht! whisht! Of what are ye thinking, ye silly gossoons? Will ye bring down the peace officers upon ye, and take out the bit o' the night in the prison, instead o' drinking me health, as ye may, and me helping to do that same? Arrah! Why should ye glower and snarl at each other, like a kennel o' mad puppies, when it's the brave frolic ye may have together?

1913, anonymous author, chapter VI, in Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and Her Irish Nurse:

"Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see?
"Arrah, Tim, mavourneen, why did you die?"

c. 1850s, Anonymous, Finnegan's Wake (folk song)

(archaic, slang, chiefly in Ireland) An expletive.


oiga

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

(formal) hey, listen, excuse me (said as a request for an individual's attention)


fuck me

Fuck me! That movie was good!

Fuck me! He didn't have to pay that parking ticket because he had a great excuse!

Oh, fuck me, that paper was due today!

[…]Who the hell'd go around trying to shoot strangers in their own neighborhood, anyway? No. No one shits in his own backyard. No one … no one, except stark raving lunatics. Fuck me!

1976, Emmett Grogan, Final Score, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 15:

Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos!

1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Walter Sobchak (John Goodman):

(vulgar, slang) An interjection expressing that someone is surprised, impressed, annoyed, or dismayed.

да се еба

vulgar expression of surprise at impressive and usually positive events

She straddled this guy, yelling, “Fuck me, you big stud, fuck me!” Then she stopped, concerned.

2019, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Sex and the City and Us, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 96:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fuck, me.


long time no see

desc

→⇒ Cebuano: long time no see but now, sinaw

Unknown. Possibly a calque of Cantonese 好耐冇見／好耐冇见 (hou² noi⁶ mou⁵ gin³), comparable to no can do or chop-chop – if so, most likely US Chinatown origin, alternatively British Far East such as Hong Kong. Alternatively, native American origin, or native coinage as pidgin, particularly in cinematic portrayals of native Americans; compare language used by Tonto (1930s).

calque

Dave! Long time no see! How’s Boston been treating you?

This lady had only assumed the reins of government a short time, when one morning Appoo made his appearance.—"Ma-am—long time no see wife—want go to Colombo see wife.[...]"

1843, James Campbell, Excursions, Adventures, and Field-sports in Ceylon: Its Commercial and Military Importance, and Numerous Advantages to the British Emigrant, volume 1, London: T. and W. Boone, page 256:

"Maybe. I think I go see my mamma today. Long time no see," answered Mamie, who from constant association had, like the other girls of the neighborhood, fallen into the habit of talking pigeon English to the Chinamen.

1892, William Norr, Stories of Chinatown: Sketches from Life in the Chinese Colony of Mott, Pell and Doyers Streets, New York: William Norr, page 16:

When we were close enough, I could see that he had a smile on his face, and I knew that he had recognized me. When we rode up to him he said: "Good morning. Long time no see you," and at the same time presented the gun with the breech foremost.

1899, William F. Drannan, Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains or, the Last Voice from the Plains, Chicago: Rhodes & McClure, page 515:

(idiomatic) I (or we) have not seen you for a long time.

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

لَم أَرَكَ مُنْذُ وَقْت طَوِيل

idiomatic: I (or we) have not seen you for a long time

ça fait longtemps qu’on ne s’est pas vu !

مشتاق دیدار

مدت زیادی بود ندیده بودمت


ready about

(nautical) Used by the helm announcing to the crew that (s)he is ready to change tack.


land ahoy

(nautical) Shouted by the ship's watch to inform the crew that land has been spotted.

земя!

interjection shouted by the ship's watch


man overboard

(nautical) A cry used to announce that one of the crew or passengers has fallen over the side of the vessel.

شخصٌ سقط في الماء

cry indicating someone has fallen over the side

有人落落来水

ū-lâng lak-lo̍h--lâi chúi / ǔ-lâng lak-lo̍h--lâi chúi


oye

¡Oye! ¡Ven aquí!

(exclamation, informal) hey! listen! (call to attract attention of a single person)


chokma

Compare Choctaw chokma, Alabama chookma.


mo

(slang, colloquial) Clipping of moi (“hi, hello”).


mo

For the semantic development of the interjection, compare Spanish ya (“already; come on!”).


hei

From Proto-Finnic *hei (compare Estonian hei, Ingrian hei, Karelian hei, Ludian hei, Veps hei). Compare also Old Norse hei (whence Swedish hej) and English hey.


hei

From Proto-Finnic *hei. Cognates include Finnish hei and Estonian hei.


hei

onomatopoeic

Expressive

hei mihi!


hei

hei!


hei

hei!


hei

(Puter, Vallader) yes (used to indicate agreement with the speaker in a conversation)


ohi

miss! (used like an interjection to indicate that a shot missed the target)


heyday

Late 16th century, from earlier heyda (1520s), as exclamation – compare hey, hei. Sense “period of success, vigor” is a respelling as heyday based on unrelated day (as “period of time”) – compare day in the sun.

"Heyday, Miss Morland!" said he. "What is the meaning of this? I thought you and I were to dance together."

"Come follow me, my wags, and say, as I say. There's no riches but in rags; hey day, hey day, &c."

Bass. Heydey! good words, good words, I must beleeue'em And be a Coxcombe for my labor.

1633, John Ford, The Broken Heart, act IV, scene i, page 252:

Here Jones, having ordered a servant to show a room above stairs, was ascending, when the dishevelled fair, hastily following, was laid hold on by the master of the house, who cried, “Heyday, where is that beggar wench going? Stay below stairs, I desire you.”

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.


fetch

The verb is derived from Middle English fecchen (“to get and bring back, fetch; to come for, get and take away; to steal; to carry away to kill; to search for; to obtain, procure”) [and other forms], from Old English feċċan, fæċċan, feccean (“to fetch, bring; to draw; to gain, take; to seek”), a variant of fetian, fatian (“to bring near, fetch; to acquire, obtain; to bring on, induce; to fetch a wife, marry”) and possibly related to Old English facian, fācian (“to acquire, obtain; to try to obtain; to get; to get to, reach”), both from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to hold, seize; to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”). The English word is cognate with Dutch vatten (“to apprehend, catch; to grasp; to understand”), German fassen (“to catch, grasp; to capture, seize”), English fet (“(obsolete) to fetch”), Faroese fata (“to grasp, understand”), Danish fatte (“to grasp, understand”), Swedish fatta (“to grasp, understand”), Icelandic feta (“to go, step”), West Frisian fetsje (“to grasp”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

nb...

facch, facche, facchen, fach, fache, fæchen, fatche, feccean, fecche, fecchen, fecchenn, fecchyn, fech, fechchen, feche, fechen, fechin, fechyn, fetche, fetchen, fetchyn, focche, focchen, fochche, foche, fotche, vacche, vacchen, vecche, vecchen, vechchen,

cog

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-fetch.wav

Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete


gack

Apparently onomatopoeic and believed to have first appeared in comic strips. Compare gag (“to choke; to retch”) and hack (“to cough noisily”).
The "cocaine" and "meth" senses apparently comes from the fact that snorting the drugs often activates a person's gag reflex.

Sports was immediately consigned to a recycle pile where it was handy in case she heard the unmistakable gack-gack-gack machine-gun regurgitation sound of Midnight Louie about to deposit a hairball on some particularly cherished piece of paper or furniture.

1999 April, Carole Nelson Douglas, “Newsmaker, Heartbreaker”, in Cat in an Indigo Mood', Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 198:

With loud pops, a cloud of blue smoke exploded from the beetle's behind. A steaming spray that stunk worse than burning rubber shot into the air. "Ack!" gagged Andrew. "Gack! Gack! Gack!" coughed Judy.

2006, J. C. Greenburg, Andrew Lost in the Garbage, 1st edition, Random House Children's Books, →ISBN, page 64:

Gravity does the rest as Jane's vomit spills back into her trachea. Guck-guck-^([sic]) GACK...guck-gack....GACK! GACK!...GACK!

2016 October, Bryan Cranston, quoting John Shiban, Breaking Bad #212 "Title TBD" Writer's Draft, September 17, 2008, quoted in Life in Parts, Scribner, →ISBN, page 204:

(often repeated several times) A sharp, sudden sound from someone's throat while they're coughing, vomiting, gagging, etc.

The family wanted me to try marmite, which is some sort of dark brown yeast extract that many Kiwis seem to enjoy. […] The family asked me to try it saying that it "tastes better than it smells." They were completely wrong. Gack! No more marmite for this boy.

a. 2004, Mister Moose [pseudonym], “Arriving in New Zealand: My First Experiences in This Far Off Land”, in MisterMoose.org, archived from the original on 2004-04-10:

An expression of disgust or disapproval.

“Gack,” said Judith. “I don’t remember that. I wish you hadn’t. […]”

1995 March, Mary Daheim, Major Vices, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 112:

Gack! Me too! I spent the whole decade of my 20s too afraid to try even online dating and I just focused on my career and doing things that interested me, and I feel SO AFRAID that if I return to focusing on my life that another decade will go by before I know it and I'll still be single and childless.

2012 September 20, Brandylion [pseudonym], “After A Year And A Half – NOW You Find Out He Doesn’t Want A Serious Relationship – EVER!”, in Have The Relationship You Want, archived from the original on 2022-09-10, Comments:


gack

Apparently onomatopoeic. Compare German gack (“call of a hen”), German gackern (“(of a chicken) to loudly and repetitive cry”), and Dutch gakken (“(of a goose) to honk”).
Comparison to more terms
Pokorny compared German gackern to words including English gaggle, Latvian gâgát (“cry like a goose”), Russian gogotátь (gogotátʹ, “(of geese) cackle; laugh loudly”), Old Norse gaga (“mock, ridicule”), and Albanian gogësínj (“yawn, burp”), among others. Pokorny considered common origin or separate innovation both as possibilities to explain the similarities.

m+

It was a big downy chick, about twenty-three days old. […] Steve shot ptargmigan for it, and every time it ate or saw Steve it would scream, Gack gack gack gack, […]

2009, Rachel Dickinson, Falconer on the Edge, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 97&endash;98:

k’eikw’w, Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla, a cliff-nesting gull and an important clan symbol or ‘totem’. […] The bird is described as a smaller version or relative of the ‘seagull’, a colonial cliff-nesting species that when disturbed forms swirling masses of birds overhead which call ‘gack, gack, gack, gack’.

2010, Eugene S. Hunn, Thomas F. Thornton, “Tlingit Birds: An Annotated List with a Statistical Comparative Analysis”, in Sonia Tidemann, Andrew Gosler, editors, Ethno-Ornithology: Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society, Earthscan, →ISBN, pages 195—196:

The sound of a bird's call in response to disturbance.


wayne

From English Wayne, which sounds somewhat similar to German wen (“whom”, pronounced [veːn] or [ʋeːn]). The sense is derived from trick questions of the sort: „Kennst du Wayne?“ – ? – „Wayne interessiert’s.“, that is: wen interessiert's. (“Do you know Wayne?” – ? – “Wayne cares.” [= “Who cares.”]).

Helmut Schmidt ist tot. — Ach, wayne.

Helmut Schmidt is dead. — Ah, who cares.


blech

Blech! Look at all those maggots!

(slang) An imitation of the sound of gagging, used to express disgust or disdain.


fug

It's always somethin' or other. Ah, fug it. I'm away now.

1985, Herbert A. Applebaum, Blue Chips, Brunswick Pub. Co., page 126:

Oh fug. Whad a mess.

2012, Drew Campbell, Dead Letter House, →ISBN:

“Why is this door locked?” she shouts. “Oh fug!”

2015, Lynn Lindquist, Secret of the Sevens, →ISBN:


hindi

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hədiq. By surface analysis, hin- + di. Compare Tagalog di, Hiligaynon indi, Ilocano di, Isnag addi, Maranao di', Northern Subanen ndi, Tausug di' and Cebuano di/dili.


oyez

From Middle English oyes, from Old French oyez, the imperative plural of oir (“hear; listen”), from Latin audīre.
Commonly folk-etymologized as (and pronounced homophonously to) O + yes in the early modern period.

Hear ye. Attend. (Called by public criers or in court usually three times to secure silence and/or attentiveness).


Allahu akbar

/əˌlɑːhuː ˈakbɑː/

From Arabic اللّٰهُ أَكْبَر (allāhu ʔakbar).

bor

اللّٰهُ أَكْبَر

Tokbîr is repeating three times these Words, اللّٰه أكبر Allah Akbar, which is to say, GOD is Greatest, before the Kelmah abovementioned.

1742, James Fraser, The History of Nadir Shah, London, page 126n:

The official said it was not immediately clear who the attackers were, but said some of them were shouting "Allahu Akbar" - a frequent cry of Chechnya's separatist rebels.

2004 June 22, Yuri Bagrov, The Guardian:

(Islam) "God is most great"; the Muslim takbir, or liturgical proclamation, used to accept sovereignty of God and as a common form of thanksgiving.


Allahu akbar

tl-head

Allahu akbár (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜑᜓ ᜀᜃ᜔ᜊᜇ᜔)

Allahu akbár (canonical)
ᜀᜎᜑᜓ ᜀᜃ᜔ᜊᜇ᜔ (Baybayin)

[ʔɐˌlaː.hʊ ʔɐkˈbaɾ]

Borrowed from Arabic اللّٰهُ أَكْبَر (allāhu ʔakbar).

bor+

اللّٰهُ أَكْبَر


up yours

You dare come here dressed so horribly? Well, up yours!

I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought.

2003 November 27, Benjamin Zephaniah, “Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought”, in the Guardian:

And I'm not taking down that tweet or acknowledging that my tweet violated the Twitter rules. Up yours, woke moralists. We'll see who cancels who.

2022 July 1, Jordan Peterson, 14:10 from the start, in Twitter Ban, YouTube, archived from the original on 2022-07-01:

(mildly vulgar) Expression to show discontent with the other party, or to show contempt.

Up yours!—I’m not giving you any!

You’ve done enough to ruin our outing, so up yours!

(dismissive, vulgar) Go away! Go to hell!


trg

(text messaging) Abbreviation of te rog (“please”).


argh

In imitation of a cry. Used since at least the 18th century.

Argh! Itʼs already 7:15! Weʼre never gonna make it!

(onomatopoeia) Expressing annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration.


argh

(onomatopoeia) argh (expression of annoyance)


God

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós?
Proto-Germanic *gudą
Proto-West Germanic *god
Old English god
Middle English god
Middle English God
English God
Derived from Middle English God. See god.

etymon

God, is this because of the "I don't love you anymore" T-shirt I bought? It was a joke!

Admiral Anderson: God... feels like years since I just sat down.

2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel (Priority: Earth):

Short for oh God: expressing annoyance or frustration.


humbug

John Camden Hotten
Oxford English Dictionary
Piccadilly

Origin unknown; the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) states that “the facts as to its origin appear to have been lost, even before the word became common enough to excite attention”. It has been suggested that the word possibly derives from hummer (“(slang) An obvious lie”), or from hum (“(dialectal and slang) to cajole; delude; impose on”) + bug (“a goblin, a spectre”). In his Slang Dictionary (1864), English bibliophile and publisher John Camden Hotten (1832–1873) suggested a link to the name of the German city of Hamburg, “from which town so many false bulletins and reports came during the war in the last century”, or alternatively a derivation from ambage.
Hotten also said he had traced the earliest occurrence of the word to the title page of Ferdinando Killigrew’s book The Universal Jester (see quotations), which he dated to about 1735–1740. This dating has therefore been adopted by other dictionaries. However, the OED dates the word to about 1750, as the earliest edition of Killigrew’s work has been dated to 1754.

unk

unknown

[Mr. Clarendon] Steady. Aristotle laughs at you. / [Mr. Algernon Sidney] Twist. He's an impertinent fellow! I say again—Liberty! freedom! glory! / Steady. Humbug! humbug! humbug!

1841 October, “Ambition. A Farce.”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume L, number CCCXII, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons, →OCLC, page 438:

"A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. / "Bah!" said Scrooge, "Humbug!" / […] "Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure." / "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! what right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough." / "Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? what reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough." / Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said, "Bah!" again; and followed it up with "Humbug."

1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 6–7:

Then each mentioned some fact, some fantastic presentiment, some instance of souls communicating with each other across space, or some case of the secret influence of one being over another. They asserted and maintained that these things had actually occurred, while the sceptic angrily repeated: / "Humbug! humbug! humbug!"

1910, Guy de Maupassant, “Magnetism”, in Ball-of-Tallow and Short Stories, New York, N.Y.: The Pearson Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 302:

(slang) Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!


in your face

I got picked for the cheerleading squad, and YOU didn't. In your face!

(idiomatic, often sarcastic) A derisive and contemptuous exclamation of triumph over one's interlocutor.


bejesus

The young stinker and smeller dug in his pocket, pulled something out, and, bejesus, the young stinker and smeller was giving him something.

1949, James T. Farrell, The Road Between, Vanguard Press, page 25:

Expressing surprise, annoyance, dismay, or anger.


allez

Allez, on y est presque.

Bon travail, allez.

Allez bonne nuit, ma bonne dame.

Allez, Nicolas ! Répète !

1986, “Il était une fois … une maison des musiciens [There Once Was… a House of Musicians]”, in Il était une fois … une petite grenouille [There Once Was… a Little Frog] (fiction), Paris: CLE International:

As an expression of encouragement; there you go, let's go, come on, that's it, attaboy, attagirl

Laisse-moi tranquille. Allez vas-y !

Allez Les Bleus !

Allez viens, plus perdre de temps.

Nicolas, je voudrais jouer du piano…
Non, ce n’est pas ton piano !
Allez, Nicolas, laisse-moi jouer.
Non, c’est mon piano !

Nicolas, I’d like to play the piano…
No, it’s not your piano!
Come on, Nicolas, let me play.
No, it’s my piano!

expressing a certain agitation, positive or negative (eg. enthusiasm or excitement, or impatience, annoyance or frustration, etc.), sometimes overlapping with previous sense of encouragement; come on, go on


woah

Woah, woah, woah, I have one more question.

2022 January 12, “Read NPR's full interview with former President Donald Trump”, in Politics, NPR, retrieved 2022-01-12:

(often proscribed) Alternative spelling of whoa


oof

An onomatopoeia. Similar to Dutch oef and German uff.

Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.

1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Captial Territory, page 10, column 2:

(onomatopoeia) A sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.

"Oof, you just lost a lot of progress. That's a real frustration, a real punch in the gut."

2017, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy:

(slang) Synonym of ouch (“expressing sympathy at another's pain, shock at a high price, etc.”)


hace

Intentional mispronunciation of face, as per harch and ten-hut.

Right hace!

(military, marching band, when preceded by a direction) A command to turn to face in a particular direction.

marching band; when preceded by a direction; marching band; when preceded by a direction


море

An interjection used to threaten someone or reprimand him jokingly.

An interjection used to reinforce a vocative phrase directed at a man.


море

Borrowed from Greek μωρέ (moré). Possible doublet of бре.

»More, Marko, ne ori drumova!« / »More, Turci, ne gaz’te oranja!«
»More, Marko, don’t plow up our roads!« / »More, Turks, don’t walk on my plowing!«

1824, recorded by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Narodne srpske pjesme

(Serbia) when spoken sharply, asserts that the speaker is stronger or older or more powerful than the addressee, sometimes expressing contempt or superiority

(Serbia) when not spoken sharply, functions as a term of endearment or generic intensifier, cf. бре


jeet

A compressed pronunciation of the words did you (d'ya) eat.

"Jeet yet?" he asks. He asks it every time they're together, though usually not this early.

1976, Jack Ansell, Giants, Berkley Medallion, →OCLC, page 76:

So it will come as no surprise if a local inquires whether you've eaten yet — or, as Philadelphians say, "Jeet yet?"

2002, The Postal Record, volume 115, page 17:


whew

(from strenuous labour) Whew! That box weighs a ton!

(from intense concern) Whew! Thank goodness youʼre safe! I thought something terrible had happened to you!

(from fear of being seen) Whew! That cop didnʼt see me! That was a close call!

An expressive sound made indicating the release of one's inner tension; the release of breath; an expression of relief.

ohh

an expressive sound made indicating the release of one's inner tension

Now I must be off. Whew, it's as cold as the North Pole. Which way is the wind blowing?

1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “East Wind”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 3:


holy moley

Originally a euphemism for Holy Mary, Molly being a nickname for Mary. Compare holy Moses.

"Whew !" he whistled, softly; "that's curious. Same name as the lady at our place. Suppose he should be her husband. Holy moley, what a game. I've made a discovery.

1892, Nathaniel Gould, Running it off; or, Hard hit:

(idiomatic, dated, humorous or euphemistic) Synonym of wow, an expression of surprise.


woe is me

/ˌwəʊ ɪz ˈmiː/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-woe is me.wav

The pronoun me expresses the dative, thus literally “woe is to me”, or in more idiomatic English “on me”. Compare the identical German weh ist mir and Yiddish וויי איז מיר (vey iz mir).

cog

וויי איז מיר

Blasted with extasie. Oh, woe is me,
T'haue seene what I haue seene: see what I see.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 266, column 1:

Woe is me, that I soiourne in Mesech: that I dwell in the tents of Kedar.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 120:5:

(sometimes humorous) Used to show that the speaker feels distress or misery.


venga

A cheer or expression of support, encouragement, etc.; come on, attaboy

An expression of amazement or surprise.; wow, whoa


Oc

Me dices que me quieres y luego te veo con otra. Oc.

You say you love me and then I see you with another girl. K.

(colloquial, text messaging, Internet slang) K., OK


kors

From Latin crux, whence also kryds. The intermediate steps of borrowing are not clear, as in the case of Swedish kors (see there).


jinx

From jynx in the transferred sense “a charm or spell”.

Bart: I'm telling Mom and Dad! / Lisa: You're telling who? / Bart: Mom and Dad! / Girls: MOM AND DAD? JINX! / Janey Powell: Now you can't talk, 'til somebody says your name!

1991, Robert Cohen, “Flaming Moe's”, in The Simpsons, season 3, episode 10 (television production):

Used after the same thing is said by two people simultaneously.


dixi

"For if anyone has ever deserved our fires, it is Thou. To-morrow I shall burn Thee. Dixi."

1912, Constance Garnett (translating Dostoevsky), The Brothers Karamazov, Part II, Book V, Chapter 5:

An utterance signifying the end of a speech.


tallyho

1772, UK, probably alteration of French taïaut (interjection used in deer-hunting), from Middle French tahou, tayo, from Old French taho, ta ho, tielau (interjection given to hounds to return) (second half of 13th century), composed of ta (particle used to prod animals) + ho ! (“halt!, hold!”). More at ho.

uder

There he is! Coming out of that coppice! Tallyho tallyho tallyho!

(UK) Used to urge on a fox hunt, especially when the fox is sighted.

Tallyho, chaps! What's the time, anybody?

A simple greeting, primarily used by the upper classes.

(Air Traffic Control): Speedbird 123, New York, traffic at two o’clock, seven miles, a Boeing 737, west-bound, at 4000 feet.”

(Pilot): New York, Speedbird 123, tallyho.


rat-a-tat-tat

A series of short, sharp taps, especially made by knocking on a door, beating a drum, or firing an automatic weapon.


to'

Clipping of togli (“take!”), imperative of togliere.


hwyl

Proto-Brythonic *huɨl, early borrowing from Old English seġl or Old Norse segl, both from Proto-Germanic *seglą (“sail”). Other meanings apparently derive from this, via the sense of successful progress, perhaps influenced by gŵyl (“holiday, feast”). Cognate with Breton gouel (“sail; feast”).

Hwyl, bawb!


croeso

croeso! (canonical)
croeso
groeso (soft)
nghroeso
chroeso

From croesaw (“welcome”), of unknown origin, possibly from croes (“cross”).


poxy

Nheengatu: puxí

hell; damn (expressing discontent, unhappiness, or anger)


сука

head

су́ка • (súka)

→ Azerbaijani: suka

→ Latvian: suka

Inherited from Old East Slavic сука (suka), from Proto-Slavic *sùka, further etymology unclear.

inh+

2023 May 5, Yevgeny Prigozhin, as quoted, “«Шойгу, Герасимов, где, сука, боеприпасы?» Пригожин записал видео для Минобороны на фоне трупов наемников ЧВК Вагнера (много мата)”, in Meduza:

Shoigu, Gerasimov, where is the fucking ammunition?

Šojgu, Gerasimov, gde, suka, bojepripasy?


сука

head

су́ка • (súka)

(vulgar, swear word) fuck!; shit! (an expression of anger)


aman

Usually vocative, poetic. Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish امان (amân), from Arabic أَمَان (ʔamān, “tranquillity, peacefulness”).


aman

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish امان (amân), from Arabic أَمَان (ʔamān, “tranquillity, peacefulness”).


aman

(when asking for mercy, help or forgiveness):

when asking for mercy; help or forgiveness

by God, I swear to god! (used to add emphasis, as if swearing an oath)


aman

From Ottoman Turkish امان (amân), from Arabic أَمَان (ʔamān, “tranquillity, peacefulness”).


num

(colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.


boh

In our childhood, our mothers' maids have so terrified us with an ugly devil having horns on his head, […] whereby we start and are afraid when we hear one cry, Boh!

1830, Walter Scott, “Letter VI”, in Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 179:

An exclamation used to startle or frighten.


boh

—Éche un gran presidente, non crees? —Boh! Que vai ser!

—He is a great president, don't you think? —Bah! No way!

indicates disdain, contempt, contradiction or incredulity


boh

[˧˦(ⁿ)bɤ̃(ʊ̯̃)(ʔːh̩)]

Puoi pagare il mio biglietto? / Boh, devo vedere se ho i soldi.

Can you pay for my ticket? / I dunno, I'll need to see if I have money.

used to express doubt or indecision; dunno


take care

(when leaving) good-bye (literally, take care of yourself)


bhoy

assumed that the clot howling in a McCormick tenor and interspersing his shrieks with "Oh Bhoy! Oh Bhoy!" was my best friend and co-editor

1952 September, Chuck Harris, “James White Meets Me”, in Hyphen, number 2, archived from the original on 2011-08-06, page 15:

Philadelphia in '53 had repercussions because they couldn't have anything resembling dancing or music. They had people parading around in costume in the meeting hall with the chairs still there. Hoo Bhoy!

1962 June, Francis Marion Busby, “With Keen Blue Eyes and a Bicycle...”, in Cry of the Nameless, number 161, archived from the original on 2019-12-29, page 14:

Oh Bhoy! This "I dream of 4E" (Forry?) nearly unsocked myself with laughter. Reminds me somehow of Ian Banks' books that must be something like retold dreams, too.

1995 September, Franz H. Milkis, “Ook Ook, Slobber Drool! Letters of Comment”, in The Space Cadet Gazette, number 3, page 28:

(dated, fandom slang, humorous) Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.


Schnick Schnack Schnuck

Probably from schnicken, variant of schnippen (“to flip one’s fingers”). The i-a-u ablaut is very common in German (and beyond); cf. tri-tra-trullala etc. Perhaps also influenced by Schnickschnack.

Used as a start signal during the above game; on Schnuck! both players show their gestures.


auts

Probably a natural exclamation, but compare German autsch.

Auts! Se sattuu.


iik

Iik! Hiiri!


encore

Borrowed from French encore (“more, again”), and once used in this sense.

(said by audience members after a performance) Please perform again!


Godspeed

From Middle English god spede, god speid (“(adverb) quickly, speedily; (interjection) may God cause (someone) to succeed”), from god, God (“(Christianity) God; the Eucharist; non-Christian god or goddess; idol; deity, divine being; person or thing honoured as a god”) (from Old English god (“god”)) + sped, spede, the singular subjunctive of speden (“to achieve one’s goal; to succeed (in something); to fare, get along; to conduct oneself well; to do well, prosper, thrive; to turn out well; to be advantageous, avail; to be of benefit or useful; to assist, help; to help (someone) be successful; to do or complete (something); to travel rapidly; to progress”) (from Old English spēdan (“to succeed”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to prosper, succeed”)).

inh

3 [Citizen]. Neighbours, God ſpeed. / 1 [Citizen]. Giue you good morrovv ſir.

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 184, column 2:

Duke. God ſpeed father. / 1. Mad[man]. God ſpeed the Plough, thou ſhalt not ſpeed me.

1604, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, “The Honest Whore, […]”, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker […], volume II, London: John Pearson […], published 1873, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 80:

At the threshold of death, how dare I give you permission to go to England, to cross the seas? But I will not stand in your way. It is your mother's permission which really matters. If she permit you, then godspeed! Tell her I will not interfere. You will go with my blessings.

1927, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “Preparation for England”, in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume I, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC, part I, page 95:

So all of America watched at 9:47 a.m. on Feb. 20, 1962, as [John] Glenn took off from Cape Canaveral. Scott Carpenter, backup astronaut for the mission, famously said: "Godspeed, John Glenn."

1962 February 20, Scott Carpenter, quotee, “Godspeed, John Glenn”, in USA Today, McLean, Va.: Gannett Co., published 8 December 2016, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-09:

So, class of 2007, join in. And godspeed.

2007 May 12, Peter Steinfels, “At commencement, a call for religious literacy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-26:

Thanks, Gordie. May you live long and stay well, too. Godspeed.

2008, Ron Benrey, Janet Benrey, chapter 14, in Season of Glory (Love Inspired Suspense), New York, N.Y.: Steeple Hill Books, →ISBN, page 155:

(literary) Used, especially at a parting, to express the wish that the outcome of the actions of a person (typically someone about to start a journey or a daring endeavour) is positive for them.

بِالتَّوْفِيق

used, especially at a parting, to express the wish that the outcome of the actions of a person (typically someone about to start a journey or a daring endeavour) is positive for them


wotcher

“Wotcher, me old cock sparrow, how's the sleuthing business?” bellowed Sandy, pausing and balancing his saddle on one knee while he looped up the girth.

1962, Dick Francis, chapter 19, in Dead Cert, published 2004, page 266:

(slang, chiefly British) A friendly greeting.


hyi

Ultimately from the onomatopoeia for spitting (like pthyi), but perhaps at least partially from Swedish fyi, fy.

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeia


gets

From English get + -s, an ellipsis of English get it, which usage may have been influenced or reinforced by Tagalog kuha (“get; grab; take”).

Ah, Oo nga. Gets!

(slang) Used by the speaker to indicate comprehension: understood!


hu

An expression of eeriness, horror or a very strong emotion


hu

Hu...mi kredis, ke tio ne veris.

oh, ooh, oof, wow (indicating surprise or another strong emotion)


hu

an exclamation expressing a sudden feeling of cold


hu

boo (a loud exclamation intended to scare someone, especially a child)

Hu, de megijedtem!

ugh (used to express repugnance, disgust)


hu

From Old Norse hú, originally onomatopoeic.


hu

a shouting noise made when pursuing someone or something


oho

From Middle English o ho; o, ho; equivalent to o + ho.

"There is Kate, taking no heed of anybody; sensible old darling — she goes at her tea and cake — Oho! she has not touched them!"

1880, Lucy Bethia Walford, Troublesome Daughters:

"Oho, my boy, that's the woman who keeps you here! Mrs. Neff hinted at it, but I wouldn't believe it till I had it from you."

1914, Rupert Hughes, What Will People Say?:

"Oho," he said, "a vile thing to say. It is. I am losing check upon my tongue, it is running free like a riderless horse. And I don't give a damn. I can say at last what I wanted for years to say, years of being politic and demure. No longer."

1988, Thomas Flanagan, The Tenants of Time:

"Oho! Now I see where he's going with this, Frank thinks. Would have seen it earlier if I hadn't been so tired."

1997, Bruce A Shuman, Beyond the library of the future:

Expressing surprise or gloating realisation; aha.


oho

oops, whoops-a-daisy (acknowledgment of minor mistake)

wow, whoa, oh, ooh, ay, chihuahua (an indication of excitement or surprise)


vuh

(onomatopoeia) woof, the sound a barking dog makes


есть

head

есть • (jestʹ)


oja

Das stimmt nicht. — Oja!

Kommst du heute Abend nicht? — Oja!

Aren't you coming tonight?? — Yes, I am!

(Austria, chiefly Vienna, in response to a negative question or statement) yes; surely; really; on the contrary


hoi

A hollow groan, unlike anything she had ever heard in her life, came from the front, followed by a shout of "Hoi, there!"

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 55:

Alternative form of hoy, hey! a call to gain someone's attention.


hoi

Possibly a spontaneous alteration of the interjection ho. The use as a joyful exclamation is attested from the 16th century; use as an informal greeting appears only in the 20th century.
Another possibility is the borrowing from English ahoy or Middle English hoy; See also ahoi.

Hoi, hoe gaat het?

(Netherlands, informal) A greeting acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence, comparable to English hey, hi

Tot morgen. Hoi!

(Netherlands, informal) A farewell acknowledging someone's departure, comparable to English goodbye, bye

Ik heb een tante in Marokko en die komt, hiep hoi!

I have an aunt in Morocco and she's coming over, yippee yay!


hoi

Compare Estonian hoi, Ingrian hoi, Karelian hoi, Ludian hoi, and also Swedish hoj, Dutch hoi, English hoy. An interjection that is found in many languages.

hoi te siellä!


hoi

Hoi, wie geht's?

(Southern Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol) hi! an informal greeting acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence


hoi

Cognates include Finnish hoi and Estonian hoi.


hoi

Hoi, co vala pa?

(Gherdëina) A greeting acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence, comparable to English hey, hi


hoi

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *huy (“exclamation to express surprise, call to a friend, respond to a distant call, etc.”). Compare Cantonese 喂 (wai²) or Min Nan 喂 (oeh).

inh

Hoi, apa kau buat tu?!

hey; interjection used to call out to people


DDR

(Internet slang) Initialism of Dia dár réiteach (“Oh my god”).


iva

From Arabic إِي وَ (ʔī wa-, “yes, by...”), which is to be followed by someone or something to swear by. Common combinations are, for example, إِي وَٱللّٰه (ʔī wa-llāh, “yes, by God”) or إِي وَرَبِّي (ʔī wa-rabbī, “yes, by my Lord”). Eventually the following word was left out. Compare the same in Hijazi Arabic إِيوَه (ʔīwa) and similar forms in other dialects. The shift from w to v is irregular, and iva is perhaps the only inherited Maltese word with this phoneme.


böö

Alternative form of pöö: boo! (exclamation intended to scare someone)


viis

Possibly from the numeral viisi (“five”), but it is not known why exactly this numeral. A somehow similar use is found in Swedish sju (“seven”), in the expression jag bryr mig sju (“I don't care at all”, literally “I care seven”).

Viis siitä!

Sataa. Siitä viis! Menen silti ulos.

It's raining. I don't care! I'll go out anyway.

Only used in viis veisata (“to not give a damn”)


perkele

From Proto-Finnic *perkeleh, which derives from the name of the Baltic deity of thunder; compare Lithuanian Perkūnas and Proto-Slavic *Perunъ (“god of thunder”). After Finland's conquest (c. 1250) and subsequent Christianization, its meaning changed to a profanity and a euphemism for Satan at least partly due to the influence of the clergy. Erzya пурьгине (puŕgińe, “thunder”) is from the same Baltic source.

Perkele, se on hidas!


ecco

(obsolete) used to express encouragement


LOLZ

LOL (Initialism of laughing out loud.) + -z (Eye dialect spelling variant of the plural suffix -s.)

(Internet slang, leetspeak) Alternative form of LOL


vasa

huh? what did you say? contraction of vad sade du/ni


aie

"Aie! Aie!" shouted the boy, his white face tossing from side to side and his eyes tightly closed.

1927, Herbert Sherman Gorman, The Place Called Dagon, page 278:


Abyssinia

From New Latin Abissīni, of Abissīnus (“Abyssinian, Ethiopian”), from Arabic الْحَبَشَة (al-ḥabaša), from حَبَش (ḥabaš, “Abyssinian”). The humorous use of Abyssinia as a parting phrase is due to its phonetic resemblance to I'll be seeing ya.

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(humorous) Expression of farewell: I’ll be seeing ya.


vala

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish والله (vallâhi), from Arabic وَاللّٰه (wa-llāh).

bor+

(regional, Bosnia) by God!, begad, egad, by golly


jee

Contracted form of Jezus, used as a minced oath.

an expression of surprise: gosh, golly, gee


kaboom

(mimesis) An explosion; the word is typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.


app

App app app – den där får du inte äta. Den är till festen imorgon.
App app app – you can't eat that one. It's for the party tomorrow.

Expresses reproach; "Hey, don't do that!"


jej

oh (used to show surprise or impatience)


gemma

First person plural of geh + ma (unstressed form of first person plural nominative mia). Literally, “go we”.

Gemma, gemma! Des schåff ma!


I don't think

There are lots of good things to watch on the telly tonight - I don't think!

used after a statement to indicate an emphatic or ironic negative


jaa

Borrowed from Old Swedish ia, iā (“yes”) (compare Swedish ja).

Jaa, enpä tiedä...

oh (when the speaker is surprised about something that s/he got to know; this has a slight nuance of the speaker being more or less interested in getting more information about it)


promiňte

The interjection literally means "forgive (me)".

sorry! excuse me! (plural or formal singular)


SAW

صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
صلى الله عليه وسلم#Arabic

(Islam, sometimes proscribed) صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ (ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wa-sallama, “peace be upon him”)


sah

Borrowed from Maghrebi Arabic صَحّ (ṣaḥḥ).


mirna Bosna

Kar pusti vse skupaj, pa mirna Bosna.

Just leave everything as it is, and we don't bring it up any more.

Tako bo, kot sem rekel in mirna Bosna.


hey presto

(British) Used by stage magicians, when performing a magic trick.

If you take the next left, you’ll see a big shop and hey presto, you’re there.

They stick a couple of old potshards together, search for one or two adjacent cultures, stick a label on the restored find and—hey, presto!—once again everything fits splendidly into the approved pattern of thought.

1968, Erich von Däniken, Chariots of the Gods?, Putnam:

(British, colloquial) Indicates a sudden desirable conclusion or change, as if by magic


ta-da

Imitative, supposed to represent a fanfare. First attested in the 1920s.

onomatopoeic

Imitative

"I give you the Illusion of the Reborn Hand. Ta-daaa!"

1978, Barry B. Longyear, Circus World, published 1982, page 94:

Used to present something intended to be surprising, impressive, or pleasing.


sorted

A: Did you book the train tickets?
B: Yep, sorted!

(British slang) A general expression of approval or completion


bing

Onomatopoeia, variously of a bouncing sound or a bell.

(onomatopoeia) The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface

Toronto Star, "Ryanair looking at standing 'seats,' pay toilets", 2 July 2010, Jim Rankin
Bing! Ladies and gentlemen, in a few minutes the captain will turn off the fasten seatbelt sign, but for your own safety we recommend you stay seated and with your seatbelt securely fastened at all times.

(onomatopoeia) The high-pitched sound made by a bell being struck


lo and behold

The lo in the expression probably originated from the shortening of the word look, commonly seen in Middle English texts. Its presence in literature can be traced to at least as early as the 18th century. The literal meaning of the expression is "look and see", and it is always used as if in the imperative.

Here was I sat down, full of Love and Respect to write my dearest Friends a dutiful and loving letter, when lo, and behold! I was made happy by the receipt of yours.

1766, "Miss N", Select letters Between the Late Duchess of Somerset, Lady Luxborough, Mr Whistler, ... and Others, Thomas Hull (editor)

1995, Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice : The Farseer Trilogy Book 1, Del Rey Mass Market Edition, p. 117.
And when Regal and I rode down to get it, lo and behold, it's from Patience, to tell us Chivalry's dead.


hau

arf, bark, woof (the sound a barking dog makes)


hau

Expressing pain or grief; oh! ah! ow! ouch!!


hau

used to express fear, rejection, and so on


asu

From Javanese asu (ꦲꦱꦸ, “dog”), from Old Javanese asu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asu, from Proto-Austronesian *(w)asu.

(vulgar) expressing dismay or discontent, fuck, shit


asu

From the Peruvian phrase asu mare, from a su madre (“to your mother”).


geez

Geez, that was one hell of a week.

(euphemistic) An exclamation denoting surprise or frustration.


anjing

Inherited from Malay anjing, from Classical Malay انجيڠ (anjing, “dog”), from Proto-Malayic *anjiŋ. Cognate with Minangkabau anjiang.

andjing

van Ophuijsen (1901–1947); Republik/Soewandi (1947–1972)

(offensive) bitch; fuck; shit; motherfucker (expressing dismay, discontent, or surprise)


verga

Inherited from Old Spanish verga, berga, inherited from Latin virga (“slender green branch, twig, stick”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *wisgeh₂ (“flexible rod or stick”). Compare Portuguese verga. Doublet of verja (“fence”).


hui

Hui sa tead teda.

(vulgar, slang) Expresses surprise, astonishment, or disbelief at the statement


hui

Related to Karelian hui. Possibly onomatopoeic, but may also be borrowed. Compare Swedish huj, German hui.

oh! (an exclamation when scared or startled)


hui

Spanish: uy, huy


oigh

oigh, get off my lawn

A word said to catch someone's attention before beginning the sentence proper.


bre

From Greek βρε (vre), from Greek μωρέ (moré, “stupid”, vocative). Doublet of more.

Folni bre, burra!

Bre! Po ç'është kjo?


bre

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بره (bre), from Byzantine Greek βρέ (bré), probably shortened from μωρέ (mōré, “man!”, literally “fool!”) (modern Greek μωρέ (moré)), a frozen vocative of Ancient Greek μωρός (mōrós, “stupid”).


bre

→ German: Bre

→ Swedish: bre

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بره (bre), from Greek μωρέ (moré). Doublet of mȏre.

(Serbia, colloquial) used to insist on or emphasize something being said or commanded, often also stressing the speaker’s perception of evidentness of the thing insisted on: bro, man, I say, I’m telling you, can’t you see

Šta si bre to uradio!?

(Serbia, colloquial) used to insist on an answer to or emphasize a question: on earth, the hell

(Serbia, colloquial) used to intensify a preceding interjection


bre

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bre. Compare German Bre.

Sho bre!
Sup bro!

Det här spelet är fett svårt bre

This game is super difficult, I'm telling you

(slang) Emphasizes a statement or question.


bre

→ Armenian: պռե (pṙe)

→ Ladino: bre

→ Romanian: bre

From Ottoman Turkish بره (bre), from Byzantine Greek βρέ (bré) (compare modern Greek βρε (vre) and ρε (re), Serbo-Croatian bre, Albanian bre), probably shortened from μωρέ (mōré, “man!”, literally “fool!”) (modern Greek μωρέ (moré)), a frozen vocative of Ancient Greek μωρός (mōrós, “stupid”).


har

I've kidnapped that lumbering fool Donkey Kong and you will never see him again. Har-har-har-har!

1995, Rare, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Nintendo, →OCLC, SNES, scene: Pirate Panic:

Armorer: 'THIS BE THE AERIAL ANVIL! NEED AN ARMOR UPGRADE? IF YOU NEED SOMETHING FORGED, I'M YOUR FELLA! HAR HAR!'

2014, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: Armor Outpost:

A sound of laughter, with a sarcastic connotation.


har

Alternative form of harou (a call of distress)


треш

head

треш • (treš)

— А-г-у-у... тьу-у-у! гукнув дід. — Треш-треш-треш!!
Свиснув малахај у руці... Одчиньаје Чіпка або Грицько ворота в царині — і тихо-помалу, посхильавши у низ голови, потьагли вівці шльахом у поле...

1880, Panas Myrny, Ivan Bilyk, chapter IV, in Хиба ревуть воли, јaк јacлa повні? [Do Oxen Low when Mangers are Full?], Geneva, page 39:

— A-h-u-u... tʹu-u-u! huknuv did. — Treš-treš-treš!!
Svysnuv malaxaj u ruci... Odčynʹaje Čipka abo Hrycʹko vorota v caryni — i tyxo-pomalu, posxylʹavšy u nyz holovy, potʹahly vivci šlʹaxom u pole...

(dialectal) Used to call or shoo a sheep.


tae

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqi. Compare Ilocano takki, Malagasy tay, Malay tahi, Palauan dach, and Samoan tae.

(vulgar) expression of worry, failure, shock, displeasure, surprise, etc.: shit!


klar

Etymological Dictionary of the German Language

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From Middle High German klār, clār, formally from Middle Low German klār or Middle Dutch claer and reinforced by Old French cler, both from Latin clārus (“bright”).

(sarcastically) yeah, right! (sarcastic expression of disbelief)


ĝis

From French jusque, influenced by German bis.

ĝis kaj ĉaŭ

2006 December 14, gunananda, “"aĉeti" kaj "ŝanĝi"”, in soc.culture.esperanto (Usenet), message-ID <1166133218.465447.46570@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com>:

good-bye (clipping of ĝis la revido, literally "until the re-seeing")


auch

in the northern half in some positions; in the northern half in some positions

From Middle High German ouch, from Old High German ouh, from Proto-Germanic *auk. Cognate with Dutch ook (“also”), West Frisian ek (“also, too”), Luxembourgish och (“also”), Swedish och (“and”), Icelandic og (“and”), Danish og (“and”), and archaic English eke (“also”).

Ach, du bist Bauingenieur. Dann baust du Brücken? — Auch.

Oh, you’re a construction engineer. So you build bridges? — Yeah. And other things, too.

in answering a yes-no question, used to express that the thing asked about covers part of the truth but not all of it; “yes, and more”


sh

"Sh!" said Josella, holding up a finger, and turning her ear to the wind. I held my breath, and strained my ears.

1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids:


props

From proper, as in "proper respect" or "proper recognition".

(slang) An acclamation of respect or recognition.


props

(slang) props (acclamation of respect or recognition)


nerts

Alteration of nuts to avoid vulgar nuts (“testicles”)

FOUND HIM 'TERRIBLY NICE' She Wonders What He Thought When She Said, 'Oh, Nerts!' After a Bad Shot.

1933 August 19, “GIRL GOLFER TELLS OF BESTING PRINCE; Beatrice Gottlieb Returns With Trophies of Victory From British Heir”, in New York Times:

(slang, euphemistic) Nuts! Expression of dismay.


на

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


на

→ Ingrian: na

→ Komi-Zyrian: на (na)

here you go! (encouraging someone to accept something, used when giving or providing something, i.e., "take it!", "here you goǃ")


на

here you go! take it! (encouraging someone to accept something, used when giving or providing something)


guay

Unknown, maybe related to French gai, Italian gaio, English gay, of Germanic origin, or from Arabic كُوَيِّس (kuwayyis, “good”).


guay

Inherited from Old Spanish guay (“woe”), from Latin vae (“woe”) or Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai, “woe”), the latter from Proto-Germanic *wai, both from Proto-Indo-European *wai. Cognate with Portuguese guai, Catalan guai and Italian guai.


jes

Alternative form: jess

yes! (used to express pleasure, joy, or great excitement)


jes

yes!, yeah! (used to express pleasure, joy, or great excitement)


ara

Alternative form of arú (“Ah! No! So! Indeed!”)


ara

(Brazil, dialectal, Caipira) Expression of dismay, discontentment or surprise.


ara

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Proposed to have derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ɔ́-la, cognates include Igala ọ́la.


curses

Fisherman: '1 PLAY COIN FOR 100 GOLD, A BOUNTIFUL TRADE, IF I'D BE SO BOLD!' / Shovel Knight: 'NOT NOW' / FISHERMAN: 'CURSES! THE THOUGHT OF THIS BURDEN UPSETS ME, BUT THAT'S WHAT A LIFE OF ADVENTURING GETS ME!'

(UK, dated or humorous in the US) Expression of annoyance or frustration.


no contest

Calque of Latin nolō contendere (“I don't want to contest”).

cal

Used to indicate that a competition or comparison is one-sided and so its outcome is too obvious to be interesting.

I'll take a Porsche, no contest!

(emphatic) Expresses lack of doubt (i.e., certainty) in a choice between options or preferences.


a

"We will resume yesterday's discourse, young ladies," said he, "and you shall each read a page by turns; so that Miss a—Miss Short may have an opportunity of hearing you"; and the poor girls began to spell a long dismal sermon delivered at Bethesda Chapel, Liverpool, on behalf of the mission for the Chickasaw Indians.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:


a

interjection that expresses various emotions; ah!


a

A, macam itulah sepatutnya kaujawab!

Used to show excitement or to show agreement.

Dia ni, a, salah seorang Perdana Menteri Britain dulu.

This guy is, er, one of Britain's Prime Ministers in the past.


a

expresses satisfaction, pity, fright, or admiration


a

From Danish ah (“oh”), likely from German ach (“oh”), from Middle High German ach, from Old High German ah. Also see ah and akk.

a, for noe tøv!

a, det er bare noe drit til han terracottaen

1888, Herman Colditz, Kjærka, et Atélierinteriør:

oh, that is just some crap for that terracotta guy

a, det gjorde godt!

a, kunde vi bare gi «Fram» slige vinger

1897, Fridtjof Nansen, Fram over Polhavet I, page 345:

oh, if only we could give "Fram" wings like that

a jo, men hold nå fred!

a nej, det kan være det samme

1874, Henrik Ibsen, Fru Inger til Østråt, page 99:

a ja, lad Schirmer tegne staburet

1874-1878, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Brytnings-år I, page 25:

oh yes, let Schirmer draw the storehouse

verden er vakker, bestemor. Selv når det regner og blåser. A ja da.

1988, Arild Nyquist, Giacomettis forunderlige reise:

the world is beautiful, grandma. Even when it's raining and windy. Oh yes.

used with the words yes and no to give a sense of impatience or rejection


a

Mostly likely from Norwegian ad (“against, on”), from Danish ad (“by, at”), from Old Danish at, from Old Norse at (“at, to”), from Proto-Germanic *at (“at, toward, to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“to, at”).

uff a meg!

huff a meg!

expression of anger or sorrow, especially with a personal pronoun


a

Czech: a

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *a, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ō.


a

Polish: a

Silesian: a

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *a. First attested in the first half of 14th century.

etydate

ah! (used when the speaker has remembered or noticed something)


a

A, tudo bem então.


a

Attested since the 15th century. Probably of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Slovene a, Russian а (a), Lithuanian õ, Latin ō and Ancient Greek ὦ (ô). These could all derive from Proto-Indo-European interjection *ō (“oh, ah”), but each form in individual languages could easily be an independent, expressive formation.

a da?


a

Inherited from Old Polish a, from Proto-Slavic *a.


a

Attested since the 18th century. Probably of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Serbo-Croatian a, Russian а (a), Lithuanian õ, Latin ō and Ancient Greek ὦ (ô). These could all derive from Proto-Indo-European interjection *ō (“oh, ah”), but each form in individual languages could easily be an independent, expressive formation.

Tega nisi pričakoval, a?

Used at the end of a sentence for confirmation, similarly to 'didn't I' in English.


a

A! Kailan namatay ang iyong ina?

ah: an exclamation of pity, admiration or surprise

oh (expression of understanding or realization)


a

God, Bikpela i bin wokim olgeta animal, tasol i no gat wanpela bilong ol inap winim snek long tok gris. Na snek i askim meri olsem, “Ating God i tambuim yutupela long kaikai pikinini bilong olgeta diwai bilong gaden, a?”

1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:1:


a

A mẹ đã về!

A, mình nhớ ra rồi!

An expression of happiness, surprise or of a sudden remembrance of something.