"Lordy" meaning in English

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          "text": "Lordy! Where's he off to now?",
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          "ref": "1889 July 11, Herbert Tidd Bradley, “Fo' He am de Lord of de blue and de gray”, in America: A Journal for Americans, volume 2, page 453:",
          "text": "Aunt Betty graciously permitted this. She always did; but if the forgetful old man wandered for a moment away from his theme she brought him back with a surreptitious: “Lordy! yo' ole head done filled wid me yit.\"",
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          "ref": "2011 July 18, John Cassidy, quoting James Comey, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:",
          "text": "“I said, ‘Lordy, we have to put tops on bottoms. Let’s get something done,’ ” Comey recalled.",
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        "Expressing mild emotion, such as exasperation or frustration."
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          "ref": "1863 March, “A horrible scrape”, in The Southern Literary Messenger, volume 37, page 172:",
          "text": "Lordy! Call your dogs off, call your dogs off! Oh! Lordy! call em off quick! quick!",
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          "ref": "2008 September 14, Craig McLean, “Rock review: AC/DC, Rock 'n' Roll Train”, in The Observer:",
          "text": "It can only be AC/DC: black black black! with the first single from their first new album in eight years, Black Ice. It's blues-metal heaviosity in exelcis^([sic]). Not clever but, oh lordy, it's big.",
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      "word": "dear Lord"
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      "word": "Lord"
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      "word": "Lordy loo"
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      "word": "lawks"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "lordy"
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  "word": "Lordy"
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          "text": "Lordy! Where's he off to now?",
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          "ref": "1889 July 11, Herbert Tidd Bradley, “Fo' He am de Lord of de blue and de gray”, in America: A Journal for Americans, volume 2, page 453:",
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          "text": "It can only be AC/DC: black black black! with the first single from their first new album in eight years, Black Ice. It's blues-metal heaviosity in exelcis^([sic]). Not clever but, oh lordy, it's big.",
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    {
      "word": "dear Lord"
    },
    {
      "word": "Lord"
    },
    {
      "word": "Lordy loo"
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    {
      "word": "lawks"
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  "word": "Lordy"
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