bosh

An onomatopoeic formation, imitating a sudden blow.

It's a ~3 foot double lead with two 5-pin DIN plugs on one end and a big gameport-sized-n-shaped plug on the other. One end into the gameport, t'other plugs into the back of your keyboard. Bosh, job done.

My father registered with these people a few months ago, and all his calls dried up. He was also of the opinion that he shouldn't need to register not to be disturbed, and he's pretty ruthless on the 'phone when he wants to be . . . but eventually he grew tired of it . . . bosh. Job done.

Wrong, get a LPG diesel. More power than either, better economy than either, bosh, job's done.

(British) An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task.


mmm

Mmm, this is a tasty pie!

emotional expression
w:emotional expression

(onomatopoeia) An emotional expression of deliciousness

Mmm, I see what you mean.

In his final years he [John Ogdon] gave an interview to an American journalist who noticed that “his handshake is a boneless fadeaway. His response to a lengthy anecdote from a close friend is likely to range from a non-committal ‘Mmmmmmm’ to a rare ‘Very interesting’.”

2014 May 11, Ivan Hewett, “Piano Man: a Life of John Ogdon by Charles Beauclerk, review: A new biography of the great British pianist whose own genius destroyed him [print version: A colossus off-key, 10 May 2014, p. R27]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):

(onomatopoeia) An expression used to show thought or reflection

(onomatopoeia) Used to represent an utterance that is muffled or spoken with a full mouth (also spelled "mmph").

Danny: Have you got any food?
I: Mmm! As a matter of fact, got a saveloy.


mmm

Used to signify that one is listening and understands


ora

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ora, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin hōra (“hour”). Doublet of hora.


ora

From Old Galician-Portuguese ora, from Latin hōra (“hour”). Doublet of hora.

duh; obviously (expresses that something is obvious)

oh no! (expresses frustration or irritation)


taa

From Proto-Eskimo *taʁu. Cognates include Sirenik tarex, Alutiiq taru, and Inupiaq tau.


muahahaha

Comes from the natural sound mu and the laughing sound hahaha, repeating.

(onomatopoeia) A conventionally evil laugh, as used by a supervillain.


oui

Haitian Creole: wi

→ English: oui

Maori: Wīwī (“France”)

First attested in 1380, from Old French oïl (1100), from Vulgar Latin *hoc ille or by surface analysis a compound of Old French o (affirmative particle) and il (“he”). Partially cognate to Occitan òc (“yes”) and Catalan oi (“isn't it?”). See the Old French term for details.

si

yes; used to contradict a negative statement or question


oui

From Old French oïl, a contraction of o il, from Vulgar Latin hoc ille.


über alles

From the verse Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt (“Germany above all, above all in the world”), from the German national anthem Lied der Deutschen, composed by Joseph Haydn in 1797. The verse originally meant that the Germans and their rulers have to overcome existing divisions and keep in mind the goal of a unified Germany.

Similarly, British Finance Capitalism forced back to its last line of defence will cry: "Britain über alles" though for the moment, Socialism having neglected Scottish Nationalism [..]

1967, Hugh MacDiarmid, The Company I've Kept, page 132:

Pax Americana and all that bullshit? Grissom said. 'America über alles. You want to make the rest of the world our slaves.'

2008, Mike Hockney, Prohibition A, page 45:

(used after a country name, usually ironic or humorous) Invokes a perception of the specified country as superior to others, or having a supreme status when compared to others.


au revoir

/ˌəʊ.ɹə ˈvwɑː/

/ˌoʊ.ɹə ˈvwɑɹ/

/ˌɑ.ɹə ˈvwɑɹ/

Unadapted borrowing from French au revoir, with relatively formal but otherwise identical meaning, possibly due to the cumbersome nature of formal English equivalents.

ubor

2000 January 22, Philipp Goedicke, Carl Kasell (announcer), “Listener Limerick Challenge”, Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
Though about it the South used to brag / I’m afraid it’s become such a drag / We should say au revoir / To the old stars and bars

2001 November 23, Jack Hassell, “Au Revoir!”, Object Management Group, mail archive, www.omg.org https://web.archive.org/web/20050123185851/http://www.omg.org/archives/dtc/msg03667.html
After about 40++ TC meetings and over seven years, it's time to say "au revoir" - at least for now.


au revoir

Louisiana Creole: aréwa

Haitian Creole: orevwa


este

uh, well (space filler in a conversation)


mum

From Middle English mum or mom (“silent”), reminiscent of the sound made when gagged or with a hand over one's mouth. Perhaps related to dated German Mumme (“mask”).

onomatopoeic

reminiscent

Mum, then, and no more.

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 III, scene ii]:

Ahab has that that’s bloody on his mind. But, mum; he comes this way.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 31, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 143:


ほう

ほう！それは驚きだ。


nage ddim

/ˌnaɡɛ ˈðɪm/

/ˌna(ː)ɡɛ ˈðɪm/


hmm

Hmm... that's an interesting idea.

Hmm... I just can't decide between the two.

Hmm... creation or evolution? That’s the big question.

Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
B. Wooster: Hmm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.

May 12 1991, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, season 2, episode 5:

Just where were you until 2 a.m.? Hmm?


hmm

Commonly found in many languages. Probably imitative.


hmm

Paul viendra mardi. - Hmm.. j’en suis pas si sûr.

Paul will come on Tuesday. - Hmm.. I'm not so sure.


hmm

Indicating thinking, pondering, surprise or annoyance.


tune

From Middle English tune, an unexplained variant of tone, from Old French ton, from Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “a tone”). Doublet of tone, ton, and tonus.

You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? — Tune!

(UK, slang) Used to show appreciation or approval of a song.


KKK

(Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative form of kkk

KKKKKK

and so on, depending on the supposed length of the laugh


よう

よう、元気？

よう、待てよ。

A very informal (rude) interjection similar to hey.


nuts

Nuts! They didn't even listen to what I had to say.

Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.

They want me to pay $5 for a banana? Nuts to that!

Early plans for this storyline didn't have Ellen get to fight back against Sirleck. She was just a host for Sirleck, and didn't have any agency to speak of.

2018 March 19, Dan Shive, “Comic for Monday, Mar 19, 2018”, in El Goonish Shive, archived from the original on 2022-05-07:

Upon denial of his exemption request, Dunn sent to a major general “a one-word memorandum that simply read: ‘NUTS!’”.

2022 April 19, Lauren Aratani, “US supreme court rules against air force officer who refused Covid vaccine”, in The Guardian, Guardian Media Group, retrieved 2022-04-19:

Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in forget it, no way, or nothing doing; often followed by to.


halt

→ Dutch: halt

→ Italian: alt

→ Spanish: alto

→ Portuguese: alto

→ Swedish: halt

→ Middle French: halt

French: halte

→ Dutch: halte

→ Greek: αλτ (alt)

→ English: halt

From the verb halten (“to hold; to stop”).


halt

halt! (stop!) (during a march, or more generally)


what the fuck

→ Chinese: 花惹發／花惹发 (huārěfā)

→ Dutch: wat de fok

→ French: ouate de phoque

The proof is on my computer. It’s on all these people’s computers, and everyone around here is just going along with that. What the fuck? [quoting Emilia Jones as Reality Winner in the film Winner]

2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker:

(vulgar) Used to express astonishment, shock, incredulity, or disbelief (as an ellipsis of longer expressions).

What the fuck are you doing? — Τι στο διάολο κάνεις

一体全体なんだ？

いったいぜんたいなんだ？

I finally said “eh, what the fuck” and quit my job.

Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.

1983, Risky Business, spoken by Miles (Curtis Armstrong):

(vulgar) Used to express nonchalance or the dismissal of any consequences of something one is about to do.


cazzo

→ Esperanto: kaco

→ French: catze

Of uncertain origin. One possibility is from a contraction of Latin capitium (“small head”) (cf. also capezzo, capezza), or from Byzantine Greek ακάτιον (akátion, “main mast”). See also caspita.

cacacazzo

a person who is anal about something, overtly pedant

cazzaro

person who says a lot of insensate words

Vada a bordo, cazzo!

fuck!, shit! (expressing frustration, surprise, or anger)

Che cazzo vuoi?

Cazzo guardi?

used as an intensifier, often replacing cosa or che, similar to "what the fuck".

Buongiorno un cazzo!


son of a bitch

Alteration of an earlier phrase represented by Middle English biche-sone (“son of a bitch”, literally “bitch's son”), calqued from Old Norse bikkju-sonr (“son of a bitch”).

der

Argh! Son of a bitch! I had just cut my arm.

(slang, vulgar) Used to express anger, contempt, astonishment, disappointment, dismay, etc.

kurva anyád

probably the most offensive insult in Hungarian


adiaŭ

adiaŭfesto

farewell ceremony, send-off, going-away party


cockadoodledoo

Alternative spelling of cock-a-doodle-doo


cojones

(vulgar, Spain, idiomatic) bloody hell!; bollocks!


halo

Borrowed from Dutch hallo. Compare Malay helo.


halo

Borrowed from Dutch hallo, possibly through Indonesian halo.

Halo, nak tanya pasal kerja rumah tadi sekejap, boleh?

Hello, can I ask about the homework earlier?

(uncommon, informal) Used to greet people; hello.


halo

hello? (greeting used when answering the telephone)

hello? (call for response if it is not clear if anyone is present or listening, or if a telephone conversation may have been disconnected)


cioc

Expressive creation, imitating a rhythmic or repeated knock.

knock, bang, used to imitate a repeated knock on a hard object or material


hooray

Unknown, first attested in the late 17th c. Possible etymologies:
* Alteration of huzzah. This is however questionable.
* From hurra in German, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, húrra in Icelandic, hoera in Dutch.

Lizzie has broken a world record, and she is now an Olympic medallist! – Hooray!

Used to express approval, joy or victory.


kuk

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kuk

From Old Norse kokkr, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz. Cognate with English cock.


ataki

Ataki tauna tangercetqerru.

Well then, would you please let me see that?

Qaillun ataki piqerlaku una.


abur

Attested since 1807. Probably borrowed from Basque agur.

Pois abur hastra a primeira

1807, Ramón Mariño, editor, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:


bottoms up

An allusion to the bottoms of the drinkers' glasses being raised.


おう

おう、久しぶりだね。

An informal greeting similar to hey. See also よう.

おう、しまった！

An informal interjection similar to oh or oops.

「わかった？」「おう。」

お、おう…


go away

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Go away! Stop annoying me!

(dismissal) A command demanding someone to leave.

don't let the door hit you on the way out


yessir

Japanese: イエッサー (slang)

نَعَم سَيِّدِي

used to express assent, especially to a superior

(informal or military) Used to express assent, especially to a male superior.

(informal) Used to express emphatic affirmation.


woof

The interjection and noun are onomatopoeic. Interjection sense 2 (“used to express strong physical attraction for someone”) probably alludes to the eager barking of a dog.
The verb is probably derived from the interjection and the noun. Verb sense 1.2 (“to eat (food) voraciously”) may be influenced by or, alternatively, derived from wolf (“to eat (food) voraciously, devour, gobble”).

Presently, from the depths of the bush behind us, came a loud "woof, woof!" "That's a lion," said I, and we all started up to listen.

1885 September, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “An Elephant Hunt”, in King Solomon’s Mines, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], published 1887, →OCLC, page 55:

"Woof" came another [anti-aircraft] shell, and then in quick succession another and another, the last one dead ahead and with such correct elevation that, a second later, the machine flashed through the streaming black smoke of the burst.

1918, Boyd Cable [pseudonym], “Bring Home the ’Bus”, in Air Men o’ War, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 14:

[…] Ricardo [a collie] made the announcement in his usual manner—with suppressed exclamatory "woofs" that always sounded to Kimball like small explosions of canine emotion. And, also according to custom, Friday [a bear cub] promptly grew inexpressibly interested and excited. Those "woof" noises always were interpreted by him as warnings of the approach of something whose status as friend or foe had not yet been determined. […] Friday gave vent to a series of "woofs" in imitation of Ricardo […]

1933 March, E. Waldo Long, “Ricardo Draws the Line”, in Boys’ Life. The Boy Scouts’ Magazine, volume XXIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Boy Scouts of America, →OCLC, page 10, column 1:

Startled bears often make a ‘whoosh’ or ‘woof’ sound as they turn to run. As long as bears run, don’t be alarmed. If, however, bears stand their ground and begin a series of woofs (like air forced out of a bellows), or pop their teeth together, or both, then this is your invitation to leave.

1985 February, Michael Parfit, “Kodiak: ‘Twice as Good as Anybody!’”, in Connie Bourassa-Shaw, editor, Islands: An International Magazine, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Islands Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 47, column 2:

Used to indicate the sound of a dog barking, or something resembling it.

boj

used to indicate the sound of a dog barking, or something resembling it

I see a hardworking man, with a smile that lights up a room—very sexy—woof!

2015, Remmy Duchene, Love Me Harder, San Francisco, Calif.: Loose Id, →ISBN:

(humorous) Used to express strong physical attraction for someone.


woohoo

Woohoo! It’s summer again!

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:

Used to express sudden or exuberant joy, happiness, excitement, approval or delight.


brava

When ballet stars perform in San Francisco, they always dine at Bali’s, the domain of a Manchurian-born Armenian, owner Armen Baliantz. […] An ex-ballerina herself, she has now brought all her discipline, grace, and charm to the running of Bali’s, and all we can say is “brava!”

1983, Alena Lasley, Paul Lasley, Frommer’s 1983-84 Guide to San Francisco, New York, N.Y.: Frommer/Pasmantier Publishers, →ISBN, page 57:

Alternative form of bravo spoken to a female performer


ahoy

→ Czech: ahoj

→ Danish: ohøj

→ Dutch: ahoi

→ German: ahoi

→ Slovak: ahoj

From a- + hoy (a nautical call used in hauling), from Middle English hoy (interjection), a greeting dating back to the fourteenth century. Compare Dutch hoi (“hi!, hello!”).

af

While he was thus occupied, a voice, still more uncouth than the former, bawled aloud, ‘Ho! the house, a-hoy!’

1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle:

I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

(nautical) Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.

Lawsuits, ahoy! […] Towns can regulate use of their beaches. But what about the waters offshore?

1989, Forbes, volume 143, numbers 5-7, page 74:

Catalytic converters ahoy – Zeppelin's latest is one of those high-rev 3D driving games that simulates racing tracks from all over the world.

1992, Championship Run (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 75, page 61

(humorous) Warning of something approaching or impending.


va'

an expression of surprise, anger or resignation


och

Compare Early Modern English och, Scottish Gaelic och, Irish och. Compare also Scots ach, Scots ouch.

(chiefly Scotland, Ireland) general interjection of confirmation, affirmation, and often disapproval.

“Och, ooh, it’s so confusing, it hurts my wee head! I’m just a woman, you know, just a pair of ovaries and some bangs! How do I have the mental capacity to pick from one of two options? Put me down for a no, and never trust me with an important decision again!”

2014 September 14, “Scottish Independence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

(chiefly Scotland, Ireland) an expression of anger, frustration, surprise


och

Och, wie süß!

Och, Schatz! Das wird schon wieder!

Och, das ist eigentlich keine schlechte Idee!

expressing endearment, pity, consideration, etc.


och

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *oxъ. Compare Latin oh, German oh.


och

From Old Swedish ock, ok, from Old Norse ok, unstressed variant of Proto-Germanic *auk (“also”). Cognate with Norwegian and Danish og, Dutch ook, German auch, and English eke. The unusual spelling with the digraph ch may have been to avoid confusion with the now dated ock (“too, also”).

"Du parkerar din bil framför mitt hus varje morgon." — "Och?"

"You park your car in front of my house every morning." — "So?"


phew

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Attested since the early 17th century. An onomatopoeia for rapid exhalation, as one may make when a trying situation is over, or in order to get rid of an unpleasant odour. Compare Scots feuch, Spanish fu, Czech fuj, and many more such forms.

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeia

uf

Used to show relief, fatigue, or surprise

Phew, that took a long time to cook!

Used to express relief of tension, fatigue, or surprise.

Phew, it stinks in here!


piacere

From Latin placēre. Compare Romanian plăcea, French plaire, Occitan plaser.

Piacere, Alberto


folk

From Old Frisian folk, from Proto-West Germanic *folk.


grande

From Latin grandem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”).


shoo

From Middle English schew, schowe, show, showe, scou (“shoo!”, interjection). Compare Middle High German schū, schuo (“shoo!”, interjection) (modern German scheu! (“shoo!”)), Dutch schuwen (“to shun”), German scheuchen (“to scare, drive away”).

cog

(informal, demeaning) Go away! Clear off!


kippis

kipp- + -is, from German die Gläser kippen (“knock back the glasses”, literally “tilt the glasses”).

der

Kippis sille!


all hands on deck

As soon as the boche and his guard were aboard again, I called all hands on deck, including von Schoenvorts, and there I explained to them that the time had come for us to enter into some sort of an agreement among ourselves that would relieve us of the annoyance and embarrassment of being divided into two antagonistic parts--prisoners and captors.

1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Chapter V”, in The Land That Time Forgot:

(nautical) An order, on board ship, for all seamen of all watches to muster on deck immediately; normally shortened to "All hands"

It was all hands to the deck in the Swindon penalty box.

2000 March 12, Stuart Barnes, “Swindon stunner for Curbishley”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Summer, with its good weather and accompanying onslaught of tourists, was the time when they made most of their money for the year, and so it was all hands on deck.

2015, Marie Bostwick, The Second Sister:

(by extension) A call for everyone to participate in something.


vittoria

Borrowed from Latin victōria, from vincere.


amidships

A helm order, normally shortened to midships!, to centre the helm in the line of the keel.


get out

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Get out! I never want to see you in here again!

(literally) Commanding a person to leave.

"Giants in armour, sir. Hundred feet high. Three legs and a body like 'luminium, with a mighty great head in a hood, sir." "Get out!" said the lieutenant. "What confounded nonsense!".

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 91:

Just get out.

(UK, Ireland, slang) Expressing disapproval or disgust, especially after a bad joke.


Judy

(military) Aircrew has radar/visual contact on the correct target, has taken control of the intercept, and only requires situation awareness information.


viva

Borrowed from Spanish viva and Italian viva.

Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support).


viva

Viva o rei!

bless you! (said to someone who has just sneezed, as a polite remark)


on board

The stereotypical cry of pirates when boarding a ship for close quarters combat.


heads

A shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads; heads-up.


smurf

Borrowed from Dutch smurf, from French schtroumpf.


soit

From Latin sĭt, third-person singular present subjunctive of sum.

Philippe le Bel souleva légèrement la tête et dit :
« Mon frère, ce ne sont point des assemblées, mais des Templiers que, ce jour, nous nous occupons.
— Soit, dit Valois, occupons-nous des Templiers.

1965, Maurice Druon, Les Rois maudits, tome 1, Le Roi de fer, Le Livre de poche (1970), page 102

Philip the Fair raised lightly his head and said:
“My brother, it is not with assemblies, but with Knights Templar, that we concern ourselves today.”
“So be it”, said Valois, “let us concern ourselves with Knights Templar.”


palla

Affix of pall + -ar, from stå pall (“stand firm”). Borrowed from Dutch pal staan, from Low German pall staan.
Interjection sense possibly an ellipsis of the negative pallar inte ("do not have energy/stamina/will").

– Ska vi gå på bio?– Palla!
– Shall we go and watch a movie?– I don't have enough energy! / – I can't be bothered to!

(colloquial, can be seen as rude) to not have enough strength, will or stamina; to not be bothered to


hej

hey, hi (an exclamation to call attention)


hej

From Polish hej, English hey, German hei, Latin heus.


hej

Derived from Old Norse hei, likely from Low German hei or German hei. First attested in 1541.

Jag sa hej till din bror i mataffären igår.

I said hi to your brother at the super market yesterday.

Hej hej.

Hej, mitt vinterland, nu är jag här. Nu biter frosten i min kind, ty kall är kvällen. Hej, mitt vinterland, se månen där. Den lyser kyligt trind / kring [differs between versions] på mörka himlapällen. Bjällrans klang friden stör, när vi genom skogen kör. Bofink uti grannens topp, förlåt att vi väckte dig opp. Hej, mitt vinterland, nu är jag här. Och vinter ["vintern" (definite) in some versions], håll i dig / på vinterholiday [possibly the original lyrics, then misunderstood or changed], nu blinkar stugans ljus mot mig, i mitt vita vinterland.

1960, Britt Lindeborg (lyrics and music), “Hej, mitt vinterland [Hey [or "hi / hello"], my winterland]”, in Julefrid med Carola [Christmas peace / serenity with Carola], performed by Carola:

Hey [or "hi / hello"], my winterland, now I am here. Now the frost bites my cheek, for the evening is cold. Hey, my winterland, look at the moon there. It shines cool and plump / coolly around ["coolly round/plump / around" – differs between versions] in the dark canopy of the sky. The sound of the [jingle] bell disturbs the peace as we ride [drive] through the forest. Chaffinch at [in] the top of the spruce, we're sorry for waking you up [sorry for that we woke you up]. Hey, my winterland, now I am here. And winter, brace yourself / on winter holiday [ad hoc], now the [Christmas, probably] lights of the cottage twinkle ["blink" – tindra (“twinkle”) is less common for electric lights in Swedish] at [toward] me, in my white winterland.

Vi syns, hej.

Hej hej.

Hej vad det går!

"Hey how it (stuff, like a party) goes!"

Sommartider, hej, hej, sommartider. Ge mig din hunger, ge mig din hand. Ge mig allt du vill och allt du kan. Sommartider, hej, hej, sommartider. Läppar mot läppar som tar mig i land. Som ger sommartider till varann.

1982, Gyllene Tider (lyrics and music), “Sommartider [Summer times]”:

Summer times, hey, hey, summer times. Give me your hunger, give me your hand. Give me everything that you want and everything that you can. Summer times, hey, hey, summer times. Lips against lips, that take me ashore. That give summer times to each other.

An expression of intensity (in some expressions); hey

Hej och hå
Hey ho


boing

Onomatopoeic. The “large breasts” sense is borrowed from Japanese ボイン, in turn from English boing.

A representation of the sound of something bouncing.

(fandom slang, chiefly in the context of anime and comics) Announcing the presence of large, pert breasts, which are bouncy.

(slang) Announcing the advent of male arousal (erection), via the metaphor of a spring springing energetically.

"Phut." Something whipped into the ground beside him and there was a pinpoint flash from the cabin. "B-o-i-n-g-g-g." There was another flash and the bullet hit the rail and whined off into the night.

1956, Ian Fleming, Diamonds are Forever, published 1965, page 100:


unable

From Middle English unable, unabel, unhable, unhabil, equivalent to un- + able.

"November three seven kilo, climb and maintain twelve thousand." "Unable, we have pressurization problems. Maintaining nine thousand."

(aviation) Indicating that a requested course of action is not possible to carry out.


merde

Borrowed from Italian merda (“shit, crap”).


merde

Inherited from Middle French merde, from Old French merde, from Latin merda.

Merde ! J’ai oublié mes clés !


rai

Unknown. Also found in Catalan rai and Occitan rai, with the same usage.

Si tu pagas, rai!!

Ixò rai!

don't worry about that / that's of no importance! / We know that already!

A vusatros rai!, que ixo no tos afecta!

Of course that doesn't bother you! That doesn't affect you!

Exclamation to assent or agree, in accordance with something obvious, of recognition of the evidence or of the great ease of what is said or what was just said. This great ease can also derive into downplaying something.


rai

Unknown. Also found in Aragonese rai and Occitan rai, with the same usage.

Si tu pagues, rai!!

Això rai!

Clar, a vosaltresrai!, si això no us afecta!

Of course, that doesn't bother you! That doesn't affect you!

Exclamation to assent or agree, in accordance with something obvious, of recognition of the evidence or of the great ease of what is said or what was just said.


meu

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meu, from Latin meus.

Éche o que hai, meu. Hai que roelo

Things are like that, bro. You must face it

Meu! Fixéchelo!


meu

Alentejo, Algarve, Azores, Madeira, unstressed

From Old Galician-Portuguese meu, from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic *meos.

(Portugal, Brazil, slang, chiefly São Paulo) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)

(Brazil, slang) whoa (used to express surprise)


wagwan

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole wah gwan (literally “what go on”), a modified form of English what's going on.

bor+

Wah gwan, Sabrina, what's it like in Mississauga? / I know you stay at home wit' momma / So can you bless me with a dollar? Don't be rude

2024 June 3, “Wah Gwan Delilah” (3:32 from the start)performed by Snowd4y ft. Drake:

what's happening
what's happening#English

(Jamaica, MLE, MTE, slang) A greeting, equivalent to what's up or what's happening.


bona

Alo, bona. Šta radiš?

(Bosnia, informal) a way of addressing a familiar female


沒問題

/meɪ̯³⁵ wən⁵¹ tʰi³⁵/

/muːt̚² mɐn²² tʰɐi̯²¹/

/meɪ̯³⁵ wən⁵¹ tʰi³⁵/

/muːt̚² mɐn²² tʰɐi̯²¹/

對我來說沒問題。

对我来说没问题。

(Mandarin, colloquial) certainly; sure; no problem (usually in reference to a request); no worries


sjutton

From Old Swedish siutan‚ siuttān, from Old Norse sjaután, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntehun.

Det kliade i halsen. Höll han på att bli förkyld? Ena handen flög upp till pannan och nog sjutton hade han feber. Förbannat.

2006, Mari Jungstedt, Den döende dandyn; translated as Tiina Nunnally, transl., The Killer's Art, 2010:

His throat felt scratchy. Was he coming down with a cold? He pressed his hand to his forehead. Damned if he didn't have a fever. Shit.

(euphemistic) Used in place of various taboo words.


bummer

From bum (“make unhappy”) + -er (agent noun suffix), originally US drug slang.

af

(colloquial) Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).


gracious

From Middle English gracious, from Old French gracieus, from Latin gratiosus, from gratia (“esteem, favor”). See grace. Displaced native Old English hold (“gracious”). Doublet of gracioso and grazioso.

Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, or frustration.


objection

/əbˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/

From Middle French objection, from Old French objeccion, from Latin obiectio.

Objection! That is irrelevant to this case, Your Honor!

(chiefly US, law) An assertion that a question or statement is in violation of the rules of the court.


hint

From Middle English hinten, hynten, variant of henten (“to lay hold of, catch”), from Old English hentan (“to seize, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *hantijan, from Proto-Germanic *hantijaną. Doublet of hent. Related also to hunt.

And yes, as long as you are being a good coder and engaging in safe practices, nothing should go wrong. (Hint, hint.)

(often reduplicated) Signifies that something previously said should be taken as a hint or heeded closely.


sheesh

(euphemistic) An expression of disbelief or exasperation.


zip

`Zip!' Just like that, an exquisitely shaped fragment of a flashing rainbow in flight flits across in front of us[.]

1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 35:

(onomatopoeia) Imitative of high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.


oy gevalt

bor

אוי געוואַלד

אוי געוואַלט


Scott

“Why, I have to find work for the thirty thousand that comes out of the coal, haven't I?”
“Scott, what a head! I never thought of that. How are you getting along? Where have you arrived?”


ey up

tlb

(Yorkshire, Northern England and Midlands)

Ey up lad, haa's it diddlin?

Ey up, ther's somedy comin daan t'rooad, Aw'll talk to thee later.


ta gueule

(slang, offensive, vulgar) shut your mouth!, shut up!, shut it!


heh

Friend 1: Some people say a man is made outta mud.

Friend 2: Heh.

(onomatopoeia) Weak amusement, sometimes signaling boredom.


heh

He handed the fragment to Bass, saying, “A cold-blooded little thing—heh? Not really. They just acted that way, the way they bite. And little? Ha! Its wing span was eighteen feet.”

2017, Stephen Randorf, Murder Over The Bones:


heh

(onomatopoeia) heh (short chuckle or laugh)


bitte

Ellipsis of ich bitte (dich/Sie) (“I beg (you)”).

ellipsis

you're welcome (acknowledgement of thanks)

excuse me, sorry (request to repeat information)

here you are (when handing something over to someone)

(sarcastic) OK then, well then, all right (indication of mock acquiescence to someone's apparent demanding attitude)


toodeloo

→ Dutch: toedeloe

Unknown. Possibly from French à tout à l’heure (“see you later”) or from toot.

der

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated) goodbye, farewell, see you soon


lasso

From Latin lassus (“weary, tired”). For the interjection, compare French hélas, English alas.

Quando rispuosi, cominciai: “Oh lasso, / quanti dolci pensier, quanto disio / menò costoro al doloroso passo!”.

1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto V”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 112–114; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

When I answered, I began: "Alas! How many sweet thoughts, how much desire, conducted them unto the painful way!"


preach

From Middle English prechen, from Old French prëechier, precchier (Modern French prêcher), from Latin praedicō. Doublet of predicate.
The Latin word is also the source of Old English predician (“to preach”), Saterland Frisian preetje (“to preach”), West Frisian preekje (“to preach”), Dutch preken (“to preach”), German Low German preken (“to preach”), German predigen (“to preach”), Danish prædike (“to preach”), Swedish predika (“to preach”), Icelandic prédika (“to preach”), Norwegian Nynorsk preika (“to preach”).

– If you can't do the time, don't do the crime! – Preach!

(slang) Used to express strong agreement (as if encouraging somebody to continue speaking).


GM

Alternative form: gm

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


uss

Uss nei!

tsk!, pshaw!, pht!, used to indicate disapproval or disgust


gadzooks

Minced form of God's hooks, a reference to the nails of the crucifixion of Christ.

“I should explain that among the books that recently arrived at the office was a slim volume from his pen dealing with the Preparatory School and giving it an enthusiastic build-up. The formative years which we spent there, he said, were the happiest of our life.”
“Gadzooks!”

1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter II:

(archaic, minced oath) An expression of surprise, shock, etc.


yiff

Yiff was part of a range of onomatopoeic words from a pseudo-language called Foxish used by the furry role-playing community, ostensibly created by a user named LittleFox or Foxen around 1990. Other terms used by this community included yip, yerf, yaff, yarf, growf, and growlf. Yiff originally meant yes or an exuberant hello. According to LittleFox, the sexual connotations of yiff were influenced by yipp (derived from yip), which originally held these sexual connotations. By 1992, yiff had been assigned a meaning of a sexual proposition, and in modern use within the furry subculture, yiff exclusively refers either to sex between anthropomorphic animals, or pornographic depictions thereof.

(onomatopoeic, apocryphal) Representing the bark of a fox (especially while mating).

(of a person, informal) To express happiness, to state that something is sexy.


pena

From Old Galician-Portuguese pena (displacing pẽa), from Latin poena, from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.


tough shit

(moderately vulgar) An unsympathetic retort to someone suffering misfortune.


ingen orsak

Literally, “no cause”. Similar to Faroese eingin orsøk, Norwegian Nynorsk inga årsak, Norwegian Bokmål ingen årsak and Danish ingen årsag.

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


knickers

(UK, Ireland, colloquial) A mild exclamation of annoyance.


men hallå

(sarcastic) hello. Indicates that something foolish has been going on.


god middag

good day; used in the middle of the day (at about lunch time)


hallå

From the imperative of Middle High German haln (“fetch”), from Old High German holōn, from Proto-West Germanic *holōn. Comparable to modern German hallo, Spanish hola.


god morgon

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


stow

From Middle English stowen, stawen, stewen, from Old English stōwian (“to hold back, restrain”), from Proto-Germanic *stōōną, *stōjaną (“to stow, dam up”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, place”). Cognate with Dutch stuwen, stouwen (“to stow”), Low German stauen (“to blin, halt, hinder”), German stauen (“to halt, hem in, stow, pack”).

cog

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

His seconde hawke wexyd gery […]
on the rode loft
She perkyd her to rest.
The fauconer then was prest,
Came runnynge with a dow,
And cryed, ‘Stow, stow, stow!’
But she wold not bow.

c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 66, 69–74:

(obsolete) A cry used by falconers to call their birds back down to hand.


parp

(informal) Representing the sound of a car horn, a trumpet, or breaking wind.


cope

Etymology tree
Old French couperbor.
English cope
From Middle English coupen, from Old French couper (“to strike, to cut”).

etymon

"The other guy cheated, I had no chance!" "Cope."

(derogatory) Expression of spite towards someone who suffered a major setback.


err

Err... what did you just say?

Elongated form of er (“sound of hesitation”).


touché

Borrowed from French touché, past participle of toucher (“to touch”). More at touch.

Duckie: You know what an older woman does for me?
Iona: Changes your diapers?
Duckie: Touché.

An acknowledgement of the validity, appropriateness, or superiority of an opponent's argument or statement in a discussion.


touché

Unadapted borrowing from French touché. Piecewise doublet of tocado.


nul

From Italian nullo (“no, not any; null”) or French nul (“no, no one”), from Middle French nul (“nobody; no one”), from Old French nul (“nobody; no one”), both from Latin nūllus (“no one, none, not any”), from Proto-Italic *ne oinolos, from Proto-Italic *oinos (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos, perhaps from *éy (“he, she, it”) + *-nós (creates verbal adjectives).
The interjection, noun and pronoun are all derived from the numeral itself.

nul Putte/putte

hun må da have en vilje og en karakter af jern. Flere gange har jeg tænkt: Nu må hun da bøje af, men nul!

she must then have a will and a character of iron. Several times I have thought: Now she must bend down, but no way!

Jeg kunne selvfølgelig være gået på biblioteket igen, men hvis hun nu troede, at jeg fulgte efter hende? Ah-ah, nul putte, det indtryk skulle hun heller ikke få

1985, Klaus Lynggaard, Martin & Victoria:

I could of course have gone to the library again, but what if she now thought I was following her? Ah-ah, whatever then, she shouldn't get that impression either

(colloquial) no way (absolutely not; under no circumstances)


fut

Nay, pre-thee, fut, feere not, he's no edge-toole; you may jest with him.

My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major; so that it follows, I am rough and lecherous. Fut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in th firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

1606, William Shakespeare, (King Lear)::

S'fut, thou liest in thy throte, thou knewst me as well as my selfe.


boga

(Kuyavia) expresses surprise or disdain; for the love of God


nunca

Sâm diabo? Nunca, sâm tacho-sa!


grr

grrrr

and so on, depending on length or ferocity

Grr, life is not fair.


heads up

Heads up! I'm about to let go.

Heads up! The boss is coming.

Heads up, Marines! We got trouble.

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:

(idiomatic) Used as an informal warning, caution, or call for attention; pay attention!


anytime

From Middle English any time, ony tyme, from Old English ǣniġum tīman, equivalent to any + time.

(informal) A form of you're welcome in response to thank you or thanks.


gasp

From Middle English gaspen, gayspen (“to gape, outbreathe”), related to and likely derived from Old Norse geispa (“to yawn”) or its descendant Danish gispe, which may be related to gapa (“to gape”).

Gasp! What will happen next?


yah

An alternative pronunciation, equivalent of yeah and yes.

An expression uttered to encourage a horse to run faster.

hopoti-hop

expression used to encourage a horse to run faster


alors

→ Galician: alor

→ Ido: lor

Inherited from Middle French alors, from Old French alors, a leurs, allors, alores, alour, alore, alora (also as enlor, enlora, etc.), from Old French a + lors. Compare Italian allora, Spanish alora, Occitan alara and Catalan aleshores.

Alors on reste ici ce soir.

(acknowledgement of previous statement) so, well, well then


get it

Used to encourage someone, especially to indicate that someone is doing something well.


get it

Don't ever touch my computer. Get it?

(colloquial) Do you understand? Have you heard? (after explaining or giving an order)

Used to draw attention to a pun or other joke one has made.


tough

From Middle English tough, towgh, tou, toȝ, from Old English tōh (“tough, tenacious, holding fast together; pliant; sticky, glutinous, clammy”), from Proto-West Germanic *tą̄h(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tanhuz (“fitting; clinging; tenacious; tough”), from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots teuch (“tough”), tūch (“tough”), Dutch taai (“tough”), Low German tage, taag, taë, taa (“tough”), German zäh (“tough”), dialectal German zach (“tough; boring”).

inh

If you don't like it, tough!

(slang) Used to indicate lack of sympathy


ui

Alternative form of oi (“oh”) (to express surprise, wonder, amazement or awe)


ui

An exclamation of surprise, joy, excitement, or admiration.


ui

oink (representing the sound made by a piglet)


ui

Macanese: ui-di


bordel

Haitian Creole: bordel

→ Albanian: bordel

→ Armenian: բորդել (bordel)

→ Czech: bordel

→ Bulgarian: борде́й (bordéj)

→ Danish: bordel

→ Georgian: ბორდელი (bordeli)

→ German: Bordell

→ German Low German: Bordell

→ Hungarian: bordély

→ Indonesian: bordil

→ Kazakh: борде́ль (bordél)

→ Kyrgyz: борде́ль (bordél)

→ Latvian: bordelis

→ Lithuanian: bordelis

→ Norwegian: bordell

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: bordell

→ Portuguese: bordel

→ Romanian: bordel

→ Romansch: burdel

→ Russian: борде́ль (bordélʹ)

→ Serbo-Croatian: bordel

→ Slovak: bordel

→ Swedish: bordell

→ Turkmen: bordel

→ Ukrainian: борде́ль (bordélʹ)

→ Uzbek: bordel

Inherited from Middle French bordel, from Old French bordel, from Medieval Latin bordellum (“brothel, small hut”).

der

(vulgar, slang) bloody hell! (UK), Christ almighty!


buonasera

Compare French bonsoir, Romanian bună seara.


bueno

Borrowed from Spanish bueno. Doublet of bom

Bueno, tu não precisa vir.

(Rio Grande do Sul) all right; okay; fine

Bueno, então olha.

(Rio Grande do Sul, used at the start of a phrase) well; a short pause in a sentence


bueno

→ Tagalog: buweno

Inherited from Old Spanish, inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos. Doublet of bonus, a later borrowing.

Bueno, pues, mira.

(used at the start of a phrase) well; a short pause in a sentence

¿Bueno?

(interrogatively, Mexico) Expression used when answering the phone, often with the pronunciation /bweˈno/, rather than /ˈbweno/.


buonanotte

Univerbation of buona (“good”) + notte (“night, nighttime”).


certo

From Old Galician-Portuguese certo, from Latin certus (“certain”), past participle of cernō (“to sift; to discern”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to move; to separate”).


busta

Borrowed from Old French boiste, whence French boîte (“box”). From Medieval Latin buxida, inflected form derived from Latin buxētum (“boxwood plantation”), from Latin buxus (“boxwood”).

(Rome, colloquial, soccer) said by someone after he's nutmegged someone (made the ball pass between their legs)


tá

Ellipsis of tá bem or tá bom, itself a clipping of está bem.


tá

Clipping of está, or borrowed from Portuguese tá.

Y tá, y me quedé ahí.

2008, Néstor Ganduglia, Historias mágicas del Uruguay interior, page 52:


tá

15th century, Lê Thánh Tông, “Núi Góa [Lonely Mountain]” in Hồng Đức Quốc Âm thi tập (Collection of Poems in Our Nation's Language), folio 37a
細(Tới)𫢩歲(nay)㐌(tuổi)包(đã)饒(bao)些(nhiêu)
擲(tá)擲(Trạnh)𥾽(trạnh)肝(bền)渚(gan)𥙩(chửa)𫯳
Now how old are ye? Ye remain so unwaveringly and resolutely unmarried.

Trần Tế Xương, “Vợ Chồng Ngâu (Mr. & Mrs. Ngâu)” in Vị Thành Giai Cú tập biên (《渭城佳句摺編》 "Collection of Vị Thành's Belle Phrases")
𫨩羅(Hay)𢜝(là)悶(sợ)𫯳庄(muộn)佐(chồng)
唏(chăng)󰜋(tá)𦓡(Hơi)挸(đâu)𩵜(mà)撰(kén)羮(cá)
Or was she so afraid of being married late that she didn't bother to be choosy?

An expression of inquisitiveness or emotionality


what's eating you

You're in a bad mood today. What's eating you?

(idiomatic) What is annoying or bothering you?


what's cooking

Hi there babe, what's cooking?

What's cooking, good-looking?

(idiomatic, informal) A greeting, similar to how are you?; what's happening?; what's up?; what's new?

(idiomatic) Expression of concern, asking for an explanation, similar to what's going on?; what's the problem?; what gives?


tidy

From Middle English tidy, tydy, tidi (“timely, seasonal, opportune”), from tide (“time”) + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian tiedig (“timely, early”), Dutch tijdig (“timely”), German Low German tiedig (“timely”), German zeitig (“seasonal, timely”), Danish tidig (“timely”), Swedish tidig (“timely”).

cog

(Wales) Expression of agreement or positive acknowledgement, usually in reply to a question; great, fine.


čo

From Sanskrit च्यवते (cyavate, “moves to and fro, retires”).


aj

A viděl Bůh vše, což učinil, a aj, bylo velmi dobré.

1593, “Genesis 1:31”, in Bible kralická [Kralice Bible]:

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.


aj

ow! ouch! oh dear! expression of pain, (unpleasant) surprise, etc.


aj

1932, Attila József, Medvetánc (Bear Dance), poem, lines 1–2, http://hu.wikisource.org/wiki/Medvet%C3%A1nc
Fürtös, láncos, táncos, nyalka,
aj de szép a kerek talpa!

(please add an English translation of this quotation)


aj

Polish: aj

Silesian: aj

Natural expression. First attested in the 14th century.

onomatopoeic

Natural expression

Noscze richlo ganbø swoiø, giszto molwø mne: ay ey (ferant confestim confusionem suam, qui dicunt mihi: euge, euge)!

1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 39, 21:

(attested in Lesser Poland) oh!, whoa! (used as a reaction to an unexpected and unpleasant event or sensation)


aj

Onomatopoeic. Compare Kashubian aj, Polabian ai̯, and Polish aj.


aj

I fjol så gick jag med herrarna i hagen. Ja, ja, med herrarna i hagen. Ja, med herrarna i hagen. I år har jag något som sparkar i magen. Aj, aj, som sparkar i magen. Aj, som sparkar i magen.

(Can we date this quote?), traditional (lyrics and music), “I fjol så gick jag med herrarna i hagen [Last year I went with the men in the pasture]”, in Skillingtryck [Broadside ballads], performed by Hootenanny Singers:

Last year I went with the men in the pasture. Yes, yes, with the men in the pasture. Yes, with the men in the pasture. This year I have something that kicks in my belly. Ow, ow, that kicks in my belly. Ow, that kicks in my belly.

ow, ouch; expression of one’s own pain, or sympathy with someone else’s.

aye; yea; a word expressing assent, for example in nautical contexts.


yuppers

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


mais

Louisiana Creole: mé

Inherited from Old French mes, mais, from Latin magis.

Mais qu’est-ce que tu fais ?

an expression of surprise, disbelief, or frustration roughly equivalent to the English well, or sometimes yeah


wilco

Wilco, Bravo Six Three will take the north road. Bravo Six Four will take the south road, out.

(radio communications) Indicates agreement and compliance.


bleh

―What did you think of the movie? ―Bleh. You?

(slang) Used to reflect general indifference to a situation or topic.

(slang) An expression of mild disgust, possible imitative of vomiting


whoa

Whoa (c. 1843) is a variant of woa (c. 1840), itself a variant of wo (c. 1787), from who (c. 1450), ultimately from Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare German ho, Old French ho ! (“hold!, halt!”).

der

Whoa, Nelly!

I can see Mickie getting hot, I'm about to grab his arm, hold him back, say, Whoa, whoa, Mick, not here, it ain't worth it what happened inside just now.

2007, Ron Liebman, Death by Rodrigo, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 134:

Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.

Whoa, are you serious?

Whoa. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?

1985, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, Back to the Future, spoken by Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox):

Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA.
Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA!
Jen: It means "personal assistant".
Moss: Thank you. Right, OK.

2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 2, episode 6:

I am the type who is liable to snipe you
With two seconds left to go, whoa.

And oh whoa girl, it's a shame.
Oh whoa girl, it's a doggone shame.

Used as a meaningless filler in song lyrics.


ha-ha

onomatopoeic

Imitative

An approximation of the sound of laughter.

けけけ

hehehe, ehe (see heh), o-hohohoho, and kekeke


ha-ha

ha-ha, haha (onomatopoeic representation of laughter)


dum

I like to hang out with friends and travel the world. But if there's one thing I really love, it's Doctor Who. Dum de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum. Whooo-eee-oooo dum de dum, de dum de dum.

2012, Graeme Burk, Robert Smith, Who is the Doctor:


my foot

Aerodynamics, my foot! The thing drives like a billboard.

"He's clever at his business," Matilda said.
"Clever my foot!" the Trunchbull shouted.

(idiomatic) Indicates disapproval, disregard, disdain, disgust or disbelief.

muka

Indicates disapproval, disregard or disbelief

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see my, foot.


chaptzem

From Yiddish כאַפּטסעם (khaptsem), from כאַפּן (khapn, “to catch, get”) and אים (im, “him”).


golly

Euphemism for God, dating from the 18th century. Possibly a compaction of “God′s body”.

“Golly! What would dad say if I did marry him?”

“By golly, I don′t see how you done that without seein′ it happen,” exclaimed Slim, looking very dazed and mystified.

1906, B. M. Bower, Chip of the Flying U, page 88:

“Got anybody else staying at the old snake pit?” “Five inmates in all.” “Five?” I resumed my tongue-clicking. “Golly! Uncle Tom must be frothing at the mouth a bit,” I said, for I knew the old buster's distaste for guests in the home. Even a single weekender is sometimes enough to make him drain the bitter cup.
[...]
 “Bertie! Your manner is strange.” “Your manner would be strange if you'd been sitting on the floor of Wilbert Cream's sleeping apartment with a chair round your neck, and Ma Cream had come in.” “Golly! Did she?” “In person.”
[...]
 “And after I had seethed for a bit I rose from my chair, took pen in hand and wrote Bobbie a stinker.” “Oh, gosh!” “I put my whole soul into it.” “Oh, golly!”

1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I, VIII, and X:


sko

Sko skipið!

Nei sko!

look!, look at that! (often implies awe)

Sko þig.

Would you look at that, you did quite well!

used to acknowledge that someone has done well


alio

Borrowed from French allô, ultimately from English hello. Possibly via Russian алло́ (alló), алё (aljó).

Alio? Kaip viskas?


alio

În primul rând, e vorba de o greșeală tipică pentru majoritatea vorbitorilor mai puțin instruiți, și anume: alio! Corect e să pronunțăm alo (cu accentul pe ó).

[2005, Ion Melniciuc, “Mă numesc Maria Pascaru”, in Limba Română, numbers 1–3, w: Chișinău, →ISSN, page 109:

Firstly, this is about a mistake typical for most less educated speakers, more precisely alio! It is correct to pronounce alo (with the stress on the ó).

Synonym of alo (word used to answer the telephone)


nota bene

From Classical Latin notā bene (“note well”). See the Latin section’s etymology for further information..

nota bene (used to add an aside or warning to a text)


fora

From Old Galician-Portuguese fora, from Latin forās (“outside”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door; gate”).


fora

(nautical) The command given to unfurl sails.


wo

A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.


ya

Apparently from German ja and cognates in other Germanic languages; related to English yeah.


ya

(informal) Go. (Spoken to horses and cattle.)


ya

From Arabic يَا (yā, “vocative particle”).

Ya, Tuhan!


ya

From Dutch ja, from Middle Dutch ja, from Old Dutch *jā, from Proto-Germanic *ja.

Ya, ini Patrick.

Dia orang kaya, ya?

Used to inquire for confirmation; right.


ya

Compare German ja, Dutch ja, Swedish ja.


ya

Inherited from Latin iam. Compare Portuguese já, French déjà and Italian già.

—Sabes que quedamos con Antonio esta tarde. —Ya.

"You know we're hanging out with Antonio tonight." "I know."

—No podrás venir, que trabajas ese día. —Ya, pero cerramos temprano los viernes.

"You can't come, you're working that day." "Right, but we close early on Fridays."

(colloquial) used to acknowledge or dismiss the previous statement


ya

Gerçekten mi ya?

Ya, çok tatlı! Şunun yatışına bak.

Aw, she’s so cute! Look at how's she sleeping.

Ya yeter be, yeter!

Biz de gelelim mi? - Gelin ya.

An expression used to indicate ratification of a statement that requires an approval or necessity.

Önündekini bitirsene! - Bitirdim ya...

Finish your plate already! - I already finished it...

Used after inflected verbs in order to intesify the meaning.

Seni orada gördüm ya, seslenmeye yüreğim yetmedi.

I saw you there but I didn't have enough courage to call you out.

Provides the actual meaning of the sentence by stressing the latter sentence.


blah

* Sense “Idle, meaningless talk” (1940), probably imitative or echoic in origin. Compare Greek "barbarbar” ‘unintelligible sounds’ (Grillo 1989:174).
* Adjective sense “bland, dull” (1919), perhaps influenced by French blasé (“bored, indifferent”).
* The blahs (“boredom, mild depression”) first attested 1969; extension of adjective sense and influenced by term the blues.
* Also may be connected with bleat
GRILLO, R.D. 1989. Dominant languages: Language and hierarchy in Britain and France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

onom

imitative

Blah! Why can't I get this computer to work!

Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah, Mom, you said this all yesterday.

And then he was like, "Oh, my brother's an Internet millionaire, blah blah blah." Like I care!

(When spoken repeatedly, often three times in succession: blah blah blah!) Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.

When spoken repeatedly; often three times in succession: blah blah blah!; When spoken repeatedly; often three times in succession: blah blah blah!


bonne nuit

good night (a phrase uttered upon a farewell)


bonsoir

Haitian Creole: bonswa

Louisiana Creole: bonswa

[bɒ̃ʊ̯̃.swɔːʁ]

[bɒ̃ʊ̯̃.swɒːʁ]

[bɒ̃ʊ̯̃.swɛːʁ]


haha

From Middle English haha, ha ha, from Old English ha ha (interjection), ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Old Frisian haha (interjection), Middle Low German hahā, hahahā (interjection), Middle High German hahā, haha (interjection), all expressions of joy or of laughter.

An onomatopoeic representation of laughter.


haha

Bang voor zo'n klein hondje. Haha, wat een held!

Afraid of such a small dog. Haha, what a hero!


haha

Haha, skrattade hon


flip

Impossible. He's dining out and coming on here after. He can't be reached. / Oh, flip!

1967, Peter Shaffer, Black comedy, including White lies: two plays:

"Oh flip, don't come near this place," she said. It was dangerous. The Catholics had banners up on the Garvaghy Road saying, 'No Protestants here'.

2000, Susan McKay, Northern Protestants:

(UK, euphemistic, colloquial) Used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.


wham

Wham! The truck hit the wall.

I was off duty, minding my own business, […] when I heard a gun go off. Wham! it roared, not more than twenty feet from me, and then, in quick succession, wham—wham!

1950 July 22, Ferguson Findley, “Waterfront”, in Louis Ruppel, editor, Collier's: Incorporating Features of the American Magazine, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 16:

Our relationship was going smoothly and then wham! Out of nowhere he told me he was leaving me for another woman.

Wham! Overnight he [Dwight D. Eisenhower] became a warmonger.

1952 September 22, “Since Stevenson Prefers 'Compromise', Foreign Policy Is Squarely in the Campaign”, in LIFE, volume 33, number 12, Time Inc., →ISSN, page 30:

I'll look the exact same way for a decade, and then— wham!— God hits the progeria switch and for two years the downhill plunge begins anew.

2008 August 7, Douglas Coupland, “40 on the Outside, 30 on the Inside: My theory of how men really age”, in Best Life, volume 5, number 6, Rodale, Inc., →ISSN, page 77:

Used to indicate something sudden, unanticipated, and dramatic has occurred.


por favor

please (interjection to make commands more polite)


por favor

Quisiera una mesa por favor.


à tes amours

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-à tes amours.wav

bless you (said after the second sneeze)


ditto

First attested in 1625. From regional Italian ditto, variant of detto, past participle of dire (“to say”), from Latin dīcō (“I say, I speak”). Not related to English dittography or Italian dito (“finger”).
The specific meaning of making copies of paper comes from ditto machine, the brand name of a spirit duplicator.

I'm really busy today! —Ditto!

"Besides, if I'm only a sort of thing in his dream, what are you, I should like to know?" "Ditto," said Tweedledum. "Ditto, ditto!" cried Tweedledee.

1871 December 27 (indicated as 1872), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Tweedledum and Tweedledee”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 82:

Used as an expression of agreement with what another person has said, or to indicate that what they have said equally applies to the person being addressed.


ditto

From older Italian ditto. Doublet of diktum.


egad

(surprise):

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

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

[…] She's in love, egad, […]

(Can we date this quote?), Anton Chekhov, The Marriage Proposal:

(dated) A mild exclamation of contempt, surprise, outrage, etc.


get in

- You gained full marks in the exam.
- Get in!

(UK, slang) An exclamation of joy at one's success.


ugh

Ugh! The bread in the pantry has gone moldy.

[...] It may have been a water-rat I speared, / But, ugh! it sounded like a baby's shriek.

1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXI:

"Ugh, what a smell of Christian blood there is here," screamed the giant.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 57:

Ugh, you can't take that bitch nowhere

2023, “Paint The Town Red”, in Scarlet, performed by Doja Cat:

Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance.

The brothers surveyed the wide prospect earnestly. "Ugh!" said one abruptly and pointed. "Ugh!" cried his brother. The eyes of the whole tribe swung round to the pointing finger. The group became one rigid stare.

1921, H.G. Wells, “The Grisly Folk”, in Selected Short Stories, published 1958, page 291:

Used to express inarticulate vocalisations, such as used by a caveman.


sir-reverence

An alteration of save-reverence or "save your reverence" (seen e.g. in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, act 1 scene 4), an apology for alluding to anything likely to shock one's sense of decency.

(obsolete) Used apologetically when something offensive is mentioned.


cholera

Learned borrowing from Latin cholera, from Ancient Greek χολέρᾰ (kholéra).


prithee

What tidings send our scouts? I prithee, speak.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):


rats

(informal) Expression of annoyance or disgust; damn, darn.

"It's damned clever - fair puzzles 'em every time. How d'ye get them?" "I tell you I don't. It's outside myself." "Rats! You can tell me, Tom. I'm Griffiths, the safe man."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:


mierda

(vulgar) shit (expression of worry, failure)


mierda

Inherited from Old Spanish mierda, from Latin merda, from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”).

(Spain, vulgar) shit! (expression of worry, failure, shock, only for negative situations)


hush

Georgie, mi sorry fi 'ear seh yuh mooma dead. Hush. Doan cry.

George, I'm sorry your mom died. There, there. Don't cry.

“Hush yah, Shaneke, such is life. […]”

2017, Kelly Daviot, “Hush yah, Shaneke, such is life”, in The Jamaica Gleaner (in English):

There, there, Shaneke. Such is life. […]


whiff

The noun is possibly:
* partly a variant of Middle English wef, weffe (“bad smell, stench, stink; exhalation; vapour; tendency of something to go bad (?)”) [and other forms], possibly a variant of either:
** waf, waif, waife (“odour, scent”), possibly from waven (“to move to and fro, sway, wave; to stray, wander; to move in a weaving manner; (figuratively) to hesitate, vacillate”), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”); or
** wef (“a blow, stroke”), from weven (“to travel, wander; to move to and fro, flutter, waver; to blow something away, waft; to cause something to move; to fall; to cut deeply; to sever; to give up, yield; to give deference to; to avoid; to afflict, trouble; to beckon, signal”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Old English wefan (“to weave”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”)), or from wǣfan (see bewǣfan, ymbwǣfan); and
* partly onomatopoeic.
Noun sense 6 (“name of a number of flatfish”) is possibly derived from sense 1 (“brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air”), sense 4 (“small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.”), and other such senses.
The verb and adjective are derived from the noun. Verb sense 2.6 (“to catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat”) is possibly derived from sense 1.1 (“to carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air”), sense 2.2 (“to be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air”), and other such senses.
The interjection is derived from noun sense 7.4 (“a sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle”).

inh

Sir Willoughby, […] made to this extraordinary remonstrance no other reply than a long whiff, and a "Well, Russelton, dash my wig (a favourite oath of Sir W.'s) but you're a queer fellow."

1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XXXII, in Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 293:

But yonder, whiff! there comes a sudden heat, / The gravest citizen seems to lose his head, […]

1850, Alfred Tennyson, “Conclusion”, in The Princess: A Medley, 3rd edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 174:

Used to indicate a sound like that of air passing through a small opening, that is, a short or soft whistle.


lógico

Learned borrowing from Late Latin logicus, from Ancient Greek λογικός (logikós, “of or relating to speech or reason or reasoning, rational, reasonable”).

der

of course (asserts that an associated phrase is rather obvious or evident)


suerte

Inherited from Old Spanish suerte, from Latin sortem, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Compare Portuguese sorte, Galician sorte.


tranquilo

Learned borrowing from Latin tranquillus.

lbor

— Pode buscar os livros?
— Tranquilo.
— Can you fetch the books?
— No problem.

(Brazil, colloquial) OK; no problem; all right


tranquilo

head

¡tranquilo! m (plural tranquilos, feminine tranquila, feminine plural tranquilas)

¡tranquilo! (canonical masculine)
tranquilos (plural)
tranquila (feminine)
tranquilas (feminine plural)


cock-a-doodle-do

Alternative spelling of cock-a-doodle-doo


gardyloo

From Edinburgh Scots gardyloo, from a corruption of medieval French gardez l’eau (“mind the water”).

[A]ll the chairs in the family are emptied into this here barrel once a-day; and at ten o'clock at night the whole cargo is flung out of a back windore that looks into some street or lane, and the maid calls Gardy loo to the passengers, which signifies, Lord have mercy upon you! and this is done every night in every house at Haddingborough; so you may guess, Mary Jones, what a sweet savour comes from such a number of profuming pans […]

1771, Tobias Smollet, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Dublin: Printed for A. Leathley, J. Exshaw, H. Saunders, W. Sleater, D. Chamberlain [and ten others], OCLC 277265635, republished in The Novels of Tobias Smollett, M.D.: viz. Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, and Humphrey Clinker (Ballantyne's Novelist's Library; II), London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1821, OCLC 271400557, page 626

It would, in fact, seem as if a tacit agreement existed, that so soon as St Giles' clock struck ten, the windows were simultaneously opened for a general discharge (which, in 1745, must have rather alarmed Prince Charles' followers, when they had possession of the town), and the streets and closes resounded with one universal cry, Gardyloo! Dr Jamieson, in his Dictionary, gives the word as Jordeloo: I doubt if any such word was ever used; but in his Supplement the learned Doctor properly assigns it to the original French phrase, Gare de l'eau—Beware the water […]

1858, David Laing, “Proposals for Cleaning and Lighting the City of Edinburgh (with Original Signatures of a Number of the Principal Inhabitants), in the Year 1735: With Explanatory Remarks”, in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Sessions MDCCCLVII.–VIII.—MDCCCLIX.–LX., Edinburgh: Printed for the Society by Neill and Company, published 1862, →OCLC, page 177:

Gardyloo is a word logophiles find irresistible. According to Ms. Sperling, gardyloo was, "in old Edinburgh, a warning cry before throwing dirty water from windows into the street in the 1770s. […]"

The method of garbage disposal in the Old Town was to shout ‘Gardy-loo’ and throw everything out the window. Gardy-loo was a warped version of gardez l'eau (approximately French for ‘watch out for the water’) – except it wasn't just water the warning referred to. […] [A] cry of ‘Gardy-loo’ was greeted by the return screech of ‘Haud yer haun’ (hold your hand). This would give you time to get into a doorway and all you suffered was a few splatters.

1999, Jan-Andrew Henderson, The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh's Legendary Underground City, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company, published 2007, →ISBN:

His eyes grew wide in revulsion when he realized what had just landed on him. His shout ripped through the midnight sky like a knife. "Gardyloo! Gardyloo! You are supposed to yell gardyloo before you throw your chamber pot out the window! You repulsive vermin, come down here so I can bash in your head!"

2015, Marilee Jackson, chapter 37, in Midnight Runner, Springville, Utah: Sweetwater Books, →ISBN:

(Scotland, obsolete) Used by people in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late as the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.


rua

From Old Galician-Portuguese rua (“street”), from or influenced by Old French rue (Modern French rue) or Old Spanish rua (Modern Spanish rúa), from Vulgar Latin *ruga (“furrow, path, street”), from Latin ruga (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewp- (“to become encrusted”). Cognate with Galician rúa. Doublet of ruga.

der

out! (strong, impolite demand for someone to leave)


mentira

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mentira, from mentir (“to lie”), from Latin mentīrī, denominal verb from mēns (“mind”), in which the meaning "to lie" stems from a semantic shift "to be inventive, have second thoughts" > "to lie, conjure up", from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”), from *men- (“to think”) + *-tis.

inh+

/mẽˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/

/mẽˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/

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Eu comprei trinta... mentira, vinte, tomates.

I bought thirty... I mean, twenty, tomatoes.

(informal) I mean (used to correct a piece of information)


silenzio

silence!; shut up!; stop talking!; hush!


toodle-oo

In one of the country gardens two gaily-dressed young coster girls are sitting and chatting with the cottager and his wife. They sit among the flowers and look for all the world like young London lasses who have come to the village to astonish the country folks with their town finery. When they rise and bid the old folks good-bye, and coming through the little wicket stand for a moment at the wooden palings to say “Toodle-oo” in the cheeriest of Cockney accents, we are at first astonished. For a moment my colleague and I had imagined we were in a rural hamlet and in the heart of green England.

1904 September, George R. Sims, “Off The Track in London V.--Round Hackney Wick”, in The Strand Magazine, London: George Newnes, Ltd., archived from the original on 2016-08-22, page 329:

"In that case," said Archie, relieved, "cheerio, good luck, pip-pip, toodle-oo, and good-bye-ee! I'll be shifting!"

1921, P. G. Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, ch. XIII. Rallying Round Percy:


bora

Clipping of embora, from the phrase vamos embora.

Bora!


bump

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin.
Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.

onom

imitative

cog

(Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.


arriba

From Old Galician-Portuguese arriba, from Latin ad (“at”) + rīpam (“coast, bank”). Cognate with Spanish arriba.


arriba

Inherited from Latin ad (“at”) + rīpam (“coast, bank”).


fiddlesticks

Circa 1600, England. From fiddlestick, from the late Middle English fidillstyk (“violin bow”).

der

Fiddlesticks! It's nothing but smoke and mirrors!

Golden pleasures! golden fiddlesticks!—What d'ye tell me of your canting stuff?

1701, George Farquhar, Sir Harry Wildair, act 4, scene 2; republished in The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar, volume 1, London: John C. Nimmo, 1892, page 295:

"Taken the veil—taken fiddlesticks!" said the old man, merrily; "why she lives near Lincoln, is married to a substantial man, the junior partner of one of the wealthiest bankers in the county […]

'Safe? Fiddlesticks! There is no safe. Mr Lavington is an intelligent man. You will see, he will have devised a hiding-place much more intelligent than a safe. A safe is the first thing everyone looks for.'

1923 October 6, Agatha Christie, “The Case of the Veiled Lady”, in The Sketch, number 1601:

“Fiddlesticks,” Miss Jenny said. “The war just gave John a good excuse to get himself killed. If it hadn’t been that, it would have been some other way that would have been a bother to everybody around.”

1964 [1929], William Faulkner, Sartoris (The Collected Works of William Faulkner), London: Chatto & Windus, page 23:

(euphemistic) Nonsense! Expresses dismissal or disdain.

Oh, fiddlesticks! I locked my keys in the car.

(euphemistic) Darn! Expresses mild dismay or annoyance.


goodness

From Middle English goodnesse, godnesse, from Old English gōdnes (“goodness; virtue; kindness”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōdnassī (“goodness”), equivalent to good + -ness. Cognate with Scots guidness (“goodness”), West Frisian goedens (“goodness”), Old High German guotnessī (“goodness”), Middle High German guotnisse (“goodness”), Russian годность (godnostʹ, “suitability, fitness”).


maldito

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin maledictus.


bof

Cette fille est mignonne, hein ? — Bof !


so long

Uncertain. Compare to Swedish hej så länge and Russian пока (poka). See Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “so long”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

(informal) Goodbye; a valediction used when leaving or departing from a person or place.


man alive

“She pretty!” “Is she not?” “No.” “Why, man alive, she was the admiration of the whole Court!”

1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book II (The Golden Thread), page 59:

We couldn't hold our own for five minutes. Man alive, they'd overwhelm us like an avalanche. Why don't they make a rush for it? I say——

c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 3:

(dated) An expression of marvelment or awe


fufufu

Borrowed from Japanese ふふふ (fufufu, onomatopoeia for the sound of laughter; compare English hahaha).

ja-r

onomatopoeia for the sound of laughter; compare English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">hahaha</i>

(onomatopoeia, fandom slang, chiefly in translations of Japanese works) The sound of laughter; especially a snicker.


coo

onomatopoeic

Imitative

I stood outside the door for a space, letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would", as Jeeves tells me cats do in adages, then turned the handle softly, pushed – also softly – and, carrying on into the interior, found myself confronted by a girl in housemaid's costume who put a hand to her throat like somebody in a play and leaped several inches in the direction of the ceiling. "Coo!" she said, having returned to terra firma and taken aboard a spot of breath. "You gave me a start, sir!" […] "If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now." "Coo! So he is."

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

The last track on each of the three sections is a professional course, where you can customise your bike by changing the tyres and the size of chainwheel. Coo!

1988 November, Sean Kelly, “Professional BMX Simulator [video game review]”, in Teresa Maughan, editor, Your Sinclair, number 35, London: Sportscene Specialist Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-05-14:

We want you to come up with a side splitting caption for a picture drawn by the fair hand of those at System 3. If you turn out to be the Funniest "Person", we'll give you a big wopping model of a dinosaur. Coo.

1989 November, “Competitions”, in Jim Douglas, editor, Sinclair User: The Independent Magazine for the Independent User, number 92, London: ECC Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-10-21:

Coo, I've only had four gallons of extra caffeine coffee today so I'm not my usual talking-to-PR-girlies-for-hours-on-end self. But bear with me a mo while I get myself together (audience waits for an age while he searches through his coat for the golden envelope). Here it is! Coo, and the winner is The NewZealand Story.

1990 April, “Crash Readers’ Awards Ceremony”, in Oliver Frey, editor, Crash: ZX Spectrum, number 75, [Ludlow, Shropshire]: Newsfield, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-06-25:

An expression of approval, fright, surprise, etc.


jävlar

Related to jävel and Norwegian jævla. Probably a relatively newer curse word, because no other Scandinavian language has it in the same way of use (except when it is humorously used as an unadapted borrowing in Norwegian).

Jävlar också!

(swear word, sometimes followed by också) damn, damn it


yup

Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (excrescent IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/). Compare yep, nope, welp, and ope.


どう

First cited to 1604 in the Portuguese work Arte da Lingoa de Iapam.
The initial ど (do) may be cognate with the interrogative ど (do) seen in どれ (dore), どこ (doko), どち (dochi).
Alternatively, possibly from older form だう (dau), much like the shift from かう (kau) → こう (kō, “like this, this way”), or さう (sau) → そう (sō, “like that, that way”). This shift is apparently suggested in the Arte da Lingoa de Iapam entry of Dǒxô, presumably どうしよう (dō shiyō). However, the expected entries dǒ or dǒxô are missing from the 1603 Nippo Jisho.
The kanji spelling is an example of jukujikun (熟字訓), using the corresponding Chinese term for the spelling and the underlying Japanese root word for the reading.

ja-r

どうしよう (dō shiyō)

どう？まあまあ。

Casual greeting: Howdy? What's new? What's up?

どう？いいんじゃない。

Call out to horses or cows to control/stop them: Ho! Hoy! Whoa!


all the best

An ellipsis for "I wish you all the best of luck" or a similar phrase.


もう

Historical kana orthography
Muromachi Period
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
もう

Derivation unknown. First attested in 1477, around the Muromachi Period.
Historical kana orthography shows that this was originally まう (mau), and Portuguese sources from the late 1500s and early 1600s record this as ⟨mǒ⟩, indicating a pronunciation of /mɔː/ as part of the regular sound shift from /au/ to /oː/.
The initial ma is speculatively connected to 今 (ima, ma, “now”).

もう、何やってんだよ。

Jeez, what're you up to? → Whaddya doing, already?

嫌になっちゃうなあ、もう。

(colloquial) Used to express frustration against the addressee; jeez; compare use of English already


cheese and rice

Euphemism or minced oath for Jesus Christ


えい

Used in situations requiring decisive, sudden force, such as throwing. oof


helvete

Helvete, hva gikk galt?

Faen i helvete!

Dra til helvete!

Hva i helvetet er det du vil?


helvete

Helvete, kva gjekk galt?

Faen i helvete!

Dra til helvete!

Kva i helvetet er det du vil?


helvete

From Old Swedish hælvīte, from Old Norse helvíti, from hel (itself from Proto-Germanic *haljō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide, conceal”)) + víti. In old Norse mythology, the god Loke had a daughter called Hel, who ruled the death realm, Niefelheim. Helvete is a combination of her name and the Old Norse word víti, meaning "punishment". Helvete thus means, the punishment of Hel. Compare Norwegian Bokmål helvete, Norwegian Nynorsk helvete, Danish helvede, Icelandic helvíti.

der

Helvete!

Helvetes jävla skit!

vägen till helvetet är kantad av goda föresatser


take it easy

I'm going home now. Take it easy.


うん

(informal) yeah, uh-huh, mhm (an interjection expressing agreement)


いえ

ja-r

いいえ (īe, “no”)


scoreboard

Glenn Quagmire: And there's the Vietnam War memorial.
Peter Griffin: Hey, check out that Vietnamese guy giving the business to those Vietnam vets.
Vietnamese Civilian: [to a pair of Vietnam veterans] Scoreboard! Scoreboard! Aw, what happened to your friend? Hey, I know that guy. I kill him. He cry like a bitch! Vietnam! Undefeated!

2010 May 16, Mark Hentemann, “The Splendid Source”, in Family Guy, season 8, episode 19:

."Scoreboard, baby! Scoreboard!" Bella taunted, pocketing her winnings as a red X went over K. C. Mack's mug shot.

2010 June 15, Rob Hedden, The Condemned, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 225:

When Neuheisel learned of Bellotti's comments, he offered a simple rebuttal: "Scoreboard, baby." Two words to end all arguments, two words to silence any complaint. Scoreboard, baby.

2010 September 1, Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry, Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 146:

For the rest of the game, all I would say to him when he taunted me was "scoreboard." Every single word that came out of his mouth was met with my response of "scoreboard."

2021 October 19, Noe Garcia, Repurposed: How God Turns Your Mess into His Message, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN:

A taunt which reminds someone that they are losing or have lost.

markagailu

board that displays the score in a game of contest


lah-di-dah

/ˌlɑːdiːˈdɑː/

c. 1880s, with a comeback in the 1980s due to its use in Annie Hall (1977) by Woody Allen, although in a different context, spoken by the actress Diane Keaton.

Well, lah-di-dah, mister Park Avenue manicure.

(mildly derogatory) Expression of disdain for pretension or haughtiness.

(US) Not a care in the world. (used in a sing-song voice, for childhood rhymes)


odio

An archaic term, only found in the praises and oríkì of deities like Ọlọ́fịn, Olú orókè, and Ọlụ́ayé, and certain kings, such as the Olúkàrẹ́, Déjì, Aláwẹ̀, and Èwí. See SEY form òdígho, which may suggest a Proto-Edekiri root, or inter-dialectal borrowings.


ha ha

Natural utterance first recorded in Old English; compare ha.

onomatopoeic

utterance

and cryden out harrow and weilaway
ha ha the fox and after hym they ran
and eek with staves many other man

1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok / and Hen / Chaũtecler ⁊ Ꝑtelote”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 106, verso:

And cried, "Help! Help and alas!
Ha, ha! The fox!" and after him they ran,
And also with staves many another man.

A defiant expression used to tease somebody.


ha ha

Et dist ha ha dame ayez de moy mercy

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 58:

And she said "ha! My lady, have mercy on me!"

used to express surprise or shock; ha; hey; ho, etc.


lolz

A corruption of lol, probably a leet variation, treated as if it were a noun rather than an interjection and pluralized in a deliberately unconventional manner using the -z suffix.

1999:"you mean "C"hina??? lolz!!!" — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/talk.politics.tibet/msg/74bdbd4eb17f4b22

2000, lolz... I hear some little clicking sounds coming from my modem:

2003, lolz... Yeah, I've got a bunch of system-event waves of Jeri Ryan. (Seven of Nine):

(Internet slang, leetspeak) Used to express laughter, often in a sarcastic fashion.


lolz

2004:"lolz" — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/it.test/msg/f3359153a179a7dd

2005:"lolz." — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/it.test/msg/0e551ad79b8c7fde

2005:"lolz" — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/it.test/msg/348baa1bbff8be8e

(Internet slang) used to express laughter


tweet

Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).

I've got two loves / And they go tweet (×9) like little birds

1977, David Byrne (lyrics and music), “Love → Building On Fire”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:

used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.


aiuto

Aiuto! Si va a picco! Aiuto! Aiuto!


peekaboo

“The Sire is the oldest living vampire in the world.” “He's the vampire from which all other vampires have descended.” “All of them.” “Do not ever open this door.” “Peekaboo.” (growling)

2021 September 2, Sam Johnson & Chris Marcil, “The Cloak of Duplication” (3:29 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):

Boo (when showing oneself unexpectedly).


это

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э́то • (éto)

Я, э́то, не купи́л ничего́.

uh, er, erm, umm (used in hesitant speech)


ho-hum

Look at all this paperwork. Ho-hum!

(dated, US, Canada) Used to express boredom, uninterest or lack of novelty.

hohhoijaa

interjection used to express boredom, disinterest or lack of novelty


lawks

"Lawks! how uncomfortable," said the cook. "And M. Henri, was he wet too?"

"Your civic pride does you credit," said Hwel. "And now, please, leave the cart. I'm sure you've got some wood to gather. Lawks."

(UK, dialectal) Lord! (especially as an expression of surprise)


nämen

Contraction of nä, pronunciational spelling of nej (“no”), and men (“but”).

Nämen, är du här?

Expresses strong surprise, often positive

Used at the beginning of answers to any question.


fuck off

Alex Forrest: Please don't justify yourself, it's pathetic. If you'd tell me to fuck off, I'd have more respect for you.
Dan Gallagher: All right, then. Fuck off.

(vulgar, slang, dismissal) Go away! Get lost!

menj/tűnj/húzz/takarodj a faszba/faszomba/gecibe/picsába/kurva anyádba

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

(vulgar, slang) An expression of disagreement or disbelief.


snark

Snark!


hold the phone

Hold the phone! We've had this problem before, with the other machine.


you don't say

They're going to have a baby? You don't say!

Hey, guess what? There's a country called Brazil! –You don't say.

A recent article about Barbie in the New Yorker quoted no less a figure than Gerwig’s own agent as saying: “Is it a great thing that our great creative actors and film-makers live in a world where you can only take giant swings around consumer content and mass-produced products? I don’t know. But it is the business.” You don’t say.

2023 July 19, Caspar Salmon, “Has Barbie killed the indie director? Why credible film-makers are selling out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Really?; no kidding!; is that so? (sometimes used sarcastically in response to the obvious)

难道...

followed by a clause, not used separately


salve

Italian: salve

Portuguese: salve

Romanian: salve

Spanish: salve

[ˈs̠äɫ̪u̯eː]


salve

Borrowed from Latin salvē (“hail, hello”).


forza

From Late Latin fortia, a noun derived from the neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”).


ope

Representing oh pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /oʊp/, [oʊp̚]) (excrescent /p/). Compare yep, yup, nope, and welp.

Ope! Sorry about that.

Ope, let me just squeeze past ya there.

We're Midwesterners. We like long walks through frozen cornfields. Ope! Watch out!

2024 January 27, Charlie Berens and Myles Montplaisir, We're Midwesterners:

(US, chiefly Midwestern US) An exclamation of surprise; oops.


not at all

[ˈnɒtʰəˈtʰɔːɫ]

[ˈnɔɾəˈɾoːɫ]

Thank you for this very thoughtful present. — Not at all.

(idiomatic) Used similarly to you're welcome, as a conventional reply to an expression of gratitude.

عَفْوًا

conventional reply to expression of gratitude

(idiomatic) Don't worry about it (response to worry or an apology)


çà

From Middle French and Old French ça, from Vulgar Latin *ecce hāc. Compare Portuguese cá, Spanish acá. The grave accent now serves to distinguish it from ça (“that”). However, çà was already widely spelt thus before ça became common in writing, and in fact the accent was formerly also found for the latter. Thus perhaps by analogy with là. Compare also jà (where the accent has no clear purpose).

so, well, then (with exhortative or intensive effect)

(archaic) la! (expressing strong emotion of anger, surprise etc.)


coi

Què coi és això?


coi

From Middle French coy, from Old French coi, from Latin qu(i)ētus. Doublet of quiet, which was borrowed.
The original feminine coie is attested until the 18th century. The modern form is analogous (e.g. with droit, droite) and/or influenced by the aforementioned doublet. Compare similar spelling inconsistencies in absous, andalou, esquimau, favori.

(archaic) cry of a huntsman to send the dogs on chase


coi

vi-interjection

瑰, 䁛, 𥋳, 𫀢, 𩲡

(colloquial, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) [Look at yourself!] What the heck are you doin'?


kerching

Imitative of the sound made by an old-fashioned cash register when an amount is rung up.

I asked a smiling lawyer what she thought of this policy. She replied, 'I have one word to say on the prospect of taking MPs to court: "Kerching!"'

2010, Mark Thomas, The People's Manifesto:

(onomatopoeia, informal, humorous) Suggesting the arrival of a large amount of money.


uffdah

A term with Scandinavian origins (either Swedish or Norwegian).

(US) A term for sensory overload. Can be used as an expression of surprise, astonishment and sometimes dismay.


dah

Clipping of sudah, from Malay dah. In the interjection sense, false cognate of Russian да (da, “yes”).


dah

From Dutch dag (“goodbye”), from Middle Dutch dach, from Old Dutch dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz. This word was originally spelled dag as in Dutch, but the final -g is replaced by -h and the form becomes archaic, but not in the word mag, were it always pronounced with final /h/ or /x/.


charming

/ˈtʃɑː(ɹ).mɪŋ/

From Middle English charmynge; equivalent to charm + -ing.

The other murderer is sadistically hacked to pieces, while the proceedings are being videoed – and the DVD is sent to Nick's home so that his daughter can see it. Oh, charming.

2009 November 26, Peter Bradshaw, “Review: Law Abiding Citizen”, in The Guardian:

(chiefly British, ironic) Used in response to behaviour or language considered offensive or uncouth.


Wilhelm

The letter "W" (double-u) in the Swedish spelling alphabet


cha-ching

Onomatopoeic, imitative of the sound of a mechanical cash register when an amount is rung up. Popularized by the 1992 movie Wayne's World and by a 1992 advertisement featuring Seth Green.
The spoken term is also, in the US, a trademarked sound of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc..

Cha-ching! More profit, more jobs.

1998, Media Foundation, chapter I, in Adbusters, volume 6, page 49:

Score!; wow!; said to celebrate something that has made or will make lots of money.


joder

From older hoder, from Old Spanish foder, from Latin futuere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit”). Compare English footle, Catalan fotre, French foutre, Italian fottere, Portuguese foder and Romanian fute.

Es que él era un escritor muy bueno, dije yo. Joder, dijo Miranda y se levantó y salió al patio, como si yo hubiera dicho algo que la hubiera ofendido.

1997, Roberto Bolaño, “Sensini”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:

"He was a good writer", I said. "Fuck!", said Miranda, who then stood up and went out to the garden, as if I had said something offensive to her.

(vulgar, Spain) jeez!, damn! (expression of surprise)


thankee

"Thankee," said the knight politely, as he took a pinch and sneezed seven times so violently that his head fell off.

1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 12, in Little Women:

"Thankee, Sir."

1874, Anthony Trollope, chapter 10, in Harry Heathcote of Gangoil:


sacré bleu

A corruption of the French euphemistic oath sacrebleu.

(dated or humorous, hyperforeign) An expression of surprise, exasperation, or dismay; good heavens; oh my gosh.


oww

(text messaging, regional) Alternative spelling of aww, indicating affection or disappointment


hella

Related to "a hell of a". Originally Northern California slang. Compare helluv, helluva.

"We definitely rocked that shit man!"
"Hella!"

(slang, chiefly Northern California) For sure; totally; hell yeah; used as a strong affirmation of something that was just said, accomplished, or revealed.


nyet

"Nyet," he said with an impatient wave, and walked into the cold night.

1990 December 31, F. Coleman, “A Soviet Bombshell”, in Newsweek, volume 116, number 27, page 50:

Nyet problem, Sarge.

2010 Oct, John G. Hemry, “The Rift”, in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, volume 130, number 10, page 9:


perse

From Proto-Finnic *persek, possibly a derivative of root found in perä.

Voi perse!


α

Α, τι πανέμορφη θέα!

Α, δεν σε περίμενα! Ποτέ έφτασες;

Oh, I wasn't expecting you! When did you get here?

Expresses wonder, surprise or joy; ah, ooh, oh, wow:

Α και να ερχόταν να με δει!

Α που να σε πάρει ο διάολος!

Α έτσι μου είσαι; Θα δεις εσύ τώρα!

Oh, so that's how it is? Wait till you see!

Α δεν μπορώ να περιμένω άλλο!

Α ναι βεβαίως ήταν αυτός!

Expresses confirmation of a fact; oh, ah:

Α όχι αυτός πάλι!

Θα ’ρθεις απόψε στο πάρτι; Α, μπα!

Will you be coming to the party tonight? Ah, nah!

Ωραίο δεν ήταν το έργο; Α, καλό ήταν!

Answer word, can be either positive or negative; eh, meh:

Πως πάει το σχόλιο τελευταία; Α, έτσι κι έτσι!

Pos páei to schólio teleftaía? A, étsi ki étsi!


α

From άι < άε from Ancient Greek ἄγε sg (áge, “go!”, pres.imp.) (with deletion of ‑γ-) of verb ἄγω (“I lead”). Also see etymologies of άντε, άιντε, άμε.

inh

Α να χαθείς!

Α στο καλό πια, σε βαρέθηκα!

άντε άντε#Greek

(colloquial) Contraction of άντε (ánte).

άντε for interchangeable interjections for dismissal

α στο καλό

go to what is good (with multiple senses)


miaou

From earlier miault, myault, of onomatopoeic origin.


слава богу

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сла́ва бо́гу

сла́ва бо́гу • (sláva bógu)

сла́ва бо́гу (canonical)
sláva bógu (romanization)

Сла́ва Бо́гу, что мы в безопа́сности!


слава богу

сла́ва бо́гу!

сла́ва бо́гу! • (sláva bóhu!)

сла́ва бо́гу ! (canonical)
sláva bóhu! (romanization)

[ˈsɫaʋɐ ˈbɔɦʊ]

From сла́ва (sláva, “glory”) + бо́гу (bóhu, “to God”).


un point c'est tout

Je n’y vais pas, un point c’est tout.

(informal) and that's final, and that's that, and that's flat, full stop, period, end of discussion


fu

(Internet slang) Initialism of fuck you.


fu

(colloquial, childish) yuck, ick (expression of disgust)

(colloquial, childish) no, bad (reprimand of behavior)


fu

Of imitative origin, similar to English phooey!.

onomatopoeic

imitative


thwack

The verb is probably:
* partly onomatopoeic, from the sound of something being beaten (compare whack); and
* partly derived from Late Middle English twakken, twake (“to hit (someone) with something; to pat; to stroke”), probably from Middle English thakken, thakke (“to dab; to pat; to stroke”) [and other forms] (whence thack (obsolete except Britain, dialectal)), from Old English þaccian (“to beat; to pat; to touch softly, stroke; to strike gently, clap, tap”), from Proto-West Germanic *þakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *þakwōną (“to pat; to tap; to touch”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to grasp with the hand; to touch”). Doublet of tangent.
The noun and interjection are derived from the verb.
cognates
* Latin tangō (“touch”)
* Old Dutch þakolōn (“to stroke”)
* Old Norse þykkr (“a blow, thump, thwack”) (Icelandic þjaka, þjökka (“to beat, thump, thwack”); Norwegian tjåka (“to strike, beat”))

cog

Three watrie clowds ſhymring toe the craft they rampired hizzing, / Three whern's fierd gliſtring, with ſouthwynds rufflered huffling. / Now doe they rayſe gaſtly lightnings, now griſlye reboundings / Of ruffe raffe roaring, mens harts with terror agryſing. / With peale meale ramping, with thwick thwack ſturdilye thundring.

1582, Virgil, “[Here after Ensue Certayne Poetical Conceites. […].] The Description of Liparen, […].”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC; republished as The First Four Books of the Æneid of Virgil, […], Edinburgh: [Edinburgh Printing Company], 1836, →OCLC, page 142:

And then—Thwack! Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it—slate, not head—clear across.

1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “A Tempest in the School Teapot”, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, published August 1909 (11th printing), →OCLC, page 156:

Used to represent the dull or heavy sound of someone or something being hit or slapped.

plätsis

used to represent the dull or heavy sound of someone or something being hit or slapped


hot dog

1894 (US college slang) from hot + dog (in reference to supposed source of the meat), both the sense of frankfurter in a roll, and of show-off.

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He patted his lap for her to sit on. Hot dog, I said to myself; settin' on his lap!

1954, Oren Arnold, The Golden Chair, Elsevier, page 249:

"Anybody with an alibi they can tell me?" I said.
No one said anything.
"Hot dog!" I said.

2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, →ISBN, page 140:


shpadoinkle

Coined 1993 by Trey Parker in film Cannibal! The Musical as a nonsense word. Later used in episode “The Gift” (May 22, 2001) of TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Joss Whedon, thence popularized by fans.

Holy Shpadoinkle Danny, you killed like, everything in town.

2007. James M. Stillwell. Stand Strong Crew: A Super Tale

(slang, US) An exclamation meaning "great" or denoting surprise.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Cannibal! The Musical
Joss Whedon
Trey Parker


capisce

Borrowed (with a change of spelling reflecting the cluster of dialectal pronunciations) from Italian, Neapolitan, and Sicilian capisci, the second-person singular present indicative form of capire (“to understand”).

bor

Brodka: Hey, kid: one more thing. If you ever set foot in this store again, you'll be spending Christmas in juvenile hall. Capisce?
Bart: [silence]
Brodka: Well, do you understand?
Bart: Everything except "capisce."

1995, “Marge Be Not Proud”, in The Simpsons, Bart Simpson (actor):

Gino Marzzone: You gotta start respecting Johnny, the way you respect me. Capisce?

1996, The Wachowskis, Bound, Dino de Laurentiis Productions and Spelling Films:

It's very simple, George, you forget about this whole licensing lawsuit pipe dream of yours or you can forget about your buddy working in my factory for the next couple of years. I will be that angry. Capiche?

1997, Eric Bogosian, Notes from Underground, page 138:

I mean, if you were coming into the plant for the long haul, God forbid, then you'd have to think seriously about the money. Capiche?

2003, Richard Chiappone, Water of an Undetermined Depth:

"That being said, if you hurt my boy I will introduce you to a whole new realm of pain and suffering. We're talking stuff that would make Heironymous^([sic]) Bosch shit his britches, capisce?"

2005, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 459: All Cards On The Table Please:

Tape: And you, origami kid? Be a good goil and run back to Olly. It's past your beddy-bye time, capisce?

2020 July 17, Intelligent Systems, Paper Mario: The Origami King, Nintendo, level/area: Sea Tower: