"blimey" meaning in English

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Interjection

IPA: /ˈblaɪmi/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-us-blimey.mp3 , En-au-blimey.oga Forms: blimy [alternative]
Rhymes: -aɪmi Etymology: A minced oath derived from (God) blind me (either concurrent with or from a clipping of cor blimey or gorblimey), or blame me. Compare crivvens, drat, etc. Etymology templates: {{glossary|minced oath}} minced oath, {{clipping|en|cor blimey|nocap=1}} clipping of cor blimey Head templates: {{en-interj}} blimey
  1. (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland) Used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc. Tags: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Derived forms: blimey Charlie, blimey O'Reilly, blimey O'Riley, cor blimey, gawd blimey, gorblimey Related terms: damn my eyes, eff and blind, fuck me, I'll be, I'll be § Related terms Translations (used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.): ostres (Catalan), no nazdar (Czech), páni (Czech), přisámbu (Czech), jejdanánku (Czech), jémine (Czech), ajcem trajcem (Czech), šmankote (Czech), ať do mě hrom uhodí (Czech), sakryš (Czech), amai (Dutch), verdraaid (Dutch), helkkari (Finnish), jukra (Finnish), jukranpujut (Finnish), bon sang (French), diantre (French), fichtre (French), mazette (French), mince (French), verdamm mich! (english: Gott) [expletive] (German), verdammt [slang] (German), sakra [German, Southern, slang] (German), cribbio (Italian), dannazione (Italian), foccalabindella (Italian), miseriaccia (Italian), ostia (Italian), perbacco (Italian), urca (Italian), caraças [feminine, plural] (Portuguese), caramba (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-blimey-en-intj-1gkZKL1~ Categories (other): British English, Commonwealth English, English entries with incorrect language header, English minced oaths, Entries with translation boxes, Irish English, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Synonyms: wow, adzooks [archaic], ay, caramba, chihuahua, begorra [Ireland, dated], bleeding heck, bleeding Nora, bless my heart, bless my soul, bless us, blige [UK], blimey, bloody hell, bloody Nora, blow me [UK, dated], blow me backwards [UK, dated], blow me down, blow me over [UK, dated], blow me pink [UK, dated], blow me tight [UK, dated], blow me up [UK, dated], blow my buttons [UK, dated], butter my butt and call me a biscuit, by all that is holy, by Allah, by cracky, by George, by God, by golly, by gum, by gummy, by jingo, by Jove, by juckies, by Jupiter, by thunder, by the living jingo, byrlady [obsolete], Christ, Christ alive, Christ on a bike, Christ on a cracker, Christ on a raft, cor [UK], cor blimey [UK], cor lummy [UK], cowabunga [humorous], crikey [Australia, New-Zealand, UK], criminy, cripes, crivvens [Scotland, UK], chuffing hell [UK], dear God, dear me, dearie me, deary me, dear Lord, diggety, eep, egad, egads, ermahgerd, fancy that, flaming Nora [UK], flipping heck, flipping Nora [UK], fuark, fuck me, fucking hell, fucking Nora [UK], gad so, Gadsbodikins [archaic], gadsbud [archaic], gadzooks [archaic], gaw, gee [US, dated], gee whiz [US, dated], gee willikers [US, dated], geeminy, geez, geez Louise [US], geshmak, get out of town, glory be, God Almighty, God in heaven, God's teeth, good golly, golly, golly gee willikers, golly gosh, good God, good gracious, good gravy, good grief, good heavens, good Lord, goodness, goodness gracious, goodness gracious me, goodness me, googly-moogly, gorblimey, Gordon Bennett [UK], gosh, gosh all hemlock, gracious, gramercy, great balls of fire, great Caesar, great Caesar's ghost, great googly moogly, great Scott, gyatt [African-American-Vernacular-English, slang], hallo, hello, heavens, heavens above, heavens to Betsy, heavens to Murgatroyd, hell's bells, hey, heyday [obsolete], hold up, holy buckets, holy cannoli, holy cow, holy crap, holy crap on a cracker, holy cricket, holy crickets, holy crud, holy dignity, holy doodle, holy fuck, holy fuck knuckles, holy guacamole, holy Hannah, holy hell, holy kamoley, holy kamoly, holy macaroni, holy mackerel, holy magnum, holy moley, holy moly, holy man, holy Moses, Holy Mother, Holy Mother of God, holy ravioli, holy shit, holy stromboli, holy smoke, holy Toledo, hooly dooly, hot damn, I'll be, I'll be a dirty bird!, I'll be a monkey's uncle, I'll be a son of a bitch, I'll be a son of a gun, I'll be blowed, I'll be bound, I'll be buggered, I'll be damned, I'll be danged, I'll be darned, I'll be dashed, I'll be dipped, I'll be dipped in shit, I'll be hanged, I'll be hornswoggled, I'll be jiggered, I'll be shot, imagine that, I'm blowed [UK, dated], I say, Janey Mack [Ireland], Jaysus, Jeebus, jeepers, jeepers creepers, jeez, jeez Louise, jeezy peeps [Scotland], Jerusalem crickets, Jesum Crow, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus fucking Christ, Jesus H. Christ, Jesus Murphy [Canada], Jiminy Cricket, jings [Scotland], jinkies, Judas Priest, jumping Jehoshaphat, jumping Jesus, knock me down with a feather, knock me over with a feather, land sakes, lauks, lawks, lawks a-mercy, lawl, leapin' lizards, Lord, Lord be praised, Lord love a duck, lordy, mama mia, mamma mia, man alive, mercy sakes, Mother of God, my, my conscience [obsolete], my giddy aunt [Britain, dated], my heavens, my sainted aunt [Britain, dated], my sainted uncle [Britain, dated], my God, my goodness, my gosh, my Lord, my my, my word, no way, O gemini, ods bodikin [archaic], odsfish, odzookens [archaic], oh, oh em gee, ohmigod, oh my, oh my days, oh my God, oh my Goddess, oh my goodness, oh my goodness gracious, oh my gosh, oh my hell, oh my heck, oh my fuck, oh my life, oh my Lord, oh my stars, oh my word, oi, OMG [Internet, slang], omigod, omigosh, peas and rice, please, praise the Lord, rah [Multicultural-London-English], ruddy hell [UK], ruddy Nora [UK], sacré bleu, sakes alive, 'sblood [archaic], 'sdeath [archaic], shart [obsolete], 'sheart [obsolete], sheesh, shit fire and save matches, shitting Nora [UK], shiver my timbers, shut my mouth, shut the front door, slap my ass and call me Judy, slap my ass and call me Sally, snakes alive, sodding hell, son of a gun, stone me, stone the crows [rare], strewth, strike me pink, 'struth [archaic], suffering Sappho, suffering succotash, sweet Grandma on stilts, sweet Jesus, sweet mother of God, sweet mother of Jesus, well, I never, what, what do you know [often, sarcastic], whoa, whoah, wow, wowee, wowzers, ye gods, yikes, yikes bikes, you don't say [often, sarcastic], yowzah, zoiks, zoinks, ZOMG [Internet, slang], ZOMFG [Internet, slang], zooterkins [archaic], zound [archaic], zounds [archaic], zowie

Alternative forms

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          "text": "\"Blimey,\" he said, \"this is a bit er orl roight! Never thought yer'd be ible to tork our lingo like a blinkin' nitive. Cahm orn—let's 'op it to the kerridge!\"",
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          "word": "butter my butt and call me a biscuit"
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          "word": "by all that is holy"
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          "word": "by jingo"
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          "word": "by Jove"
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          "word": "byrlady"
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          "word": "Christ"
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          "word": "Christ alive"
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          "word": "chuffing hell"
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          "word": "dear God"
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "holy Toledo"
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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          "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
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          "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
          "word": "bon sang"
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          "word": "fichtre"
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          "word": "mazette"
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          "word": "mince"
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          "english": "Gott",
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          "word": "sakra"
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
          "word": "cribbio"
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          "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
          "word": "dannazione"
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          "word": "foccalabindella"
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          "word": "urca"
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          "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
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            "plural"
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          "word": "caraças"
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          "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
          "word": "caramba"
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      "word": "blimey O'Riley"
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    {
      "word": "cor blimey"
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        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
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        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
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          "text": "I know the chap that started the lie. There ain't no Invisible Man whatsoever—Blimey.",
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          "ref": "1897 September, Richard Marsh [pseudonym; Richard Bernard Heldmann], “Outside”, in The Beetle: A Mystery, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin […], published August 1907, →OCLC, book I (The House with the Open Window), page 4:",
          "text": "'But, if there's room, aren't they bound to take me in?' / 'Course they are,—and, blimey, if I was you I'd make 'em. Blimey I would!'",
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          "ref": "1908 September, Jerome K[lapka] Jerome, “Passing of the Third Floor Back”, in Passing of the Third Floor Back, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 2:",
          "text": "Blimy if I don't believe 'e's taking 'ome 'is washing up his back.",
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          "ref": "1915, Harry S. Miller, “Blime Me, O’Reilly (You’re Doing Quite Well) [cover title: Blime Me Mr. O’Reilly but You’re Looking Mighty Well]”, New York, N.Y.: The Cadillac Music; Springfield, Mass.; Chicago, Ill.: A. H. Goetting, →OCLC, page 5:",
          "text": "If you're the O'Reilly, they speak of so highly, / Why blime me, O'Reilly, you're doing quite well.",
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          "ref": "1919, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, volume IV, London: Ward, Lock and Bowden, →OCLC, page 99, column 1:",
          "text": "\"Blimey,\" he said, \"this is a bit er orl roight! Never thought yer'd be ible to tork our lingo like a blinkin' nitive. Cahm orn—let's 'op it to the kerridge!\"",
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          "text": "\"Blimey!\" he says in his rough, shepherd's voice, \"blimey, but it's cruel 'ard to be chucked out of one's digs wivout a blarsted word! [...]\"",
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          "text": "‘Blimey,’ said Barnaby. ‘Come on, Jack, quick as you can.’ / ‘Blimey,’ said Jack. ‘Blimey blimey blimey.’",
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          "text": "‘Blimey,’ said Laurie. ‘Is she serious? Was it something I said?’",
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          "ref": "2013, Mark Johnston, “Introduction”, in Anzacs in the Middle East: Australian Soldiers, Their Allies and the Local People in World War II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Port Melbourne, Vic.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 1:",
          "text": "According to an Australian gunner, 'a nostalgic little new-arrival' among the Tommies asked: 'Is it true all you Aussies are volunteers?' When told that it was, '… he hesitated a moment. Then he blurted out: \"Blime, choom, y' must 've 'ad a fair ——— of a 'ome-life!\"'",
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          "word": "ay"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "caramba"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "bleeding Nora"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "word": "butter my butt and call me a biscuit"
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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          "word": "by gummy"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "by Jove"
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "by Jupiter"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "by thunder"
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          "word": "Christ"
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        {
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          "word": "Christ alive"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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          "word": "Christ on a cracker"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "dear God"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "dear me"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "dearie me"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "deary me"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "dear Lord"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "diggety"
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
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        {
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        {
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        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "suffering Sappho"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "suffering succotash"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "sweet Grandma on stilts"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "sweet Jesus"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "sweet mother of God"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "sweet mother of Jesus"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "well"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "I never"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "what"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
            "often",
            "sarcastic"
          ],
          "word": "what do you know"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "whoa"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "whoah"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "wow"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "wowee"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "wowzers"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "ye gods"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "yikes"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "yikes bikes"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
            "often",
            "sarcastic"
          ],
          "word": "you don't say"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "yowzah"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "zoiks"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "zoinks"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
            "Internet",
            "slang"
          ],
          "word": "ZOMG"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
            "Internet",
            "slang"
          ],
          "word": "ZOMFG"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
            "archaic"
          ],
          "word": "zooterkins"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
            "archaic"
          ],
          "word": "zound"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "tags": [
            "archaic"
          ],
          "word": "zounds"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:wow",
          "word": "zowie"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Commonwealth",
        "Ireland",
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈblaɪmi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-blimey.mp3",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/En-us-blimey.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/En-us-blimey.mp3/En-us-blimey.mp3.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-blimey.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cf/En-au-blimey.oga/En-au-blimey.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/En-au-blimey.oga"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪmi"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "ostres"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "no nazdar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "páni"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "přisámbu"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "jejdanánku"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "jémine"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "ajcem trajcem"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "šmankote"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "ať do mě hrom uhodí"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "sakryš"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "amai"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "verdraaid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "helkkari"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "jukra"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "jukranpujut"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "bon sang"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "diantre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "fichtre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "mazette"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "mince"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "Gott",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "tags": [
        "expletive"
      ],
      "word": "verdamm mich!"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "verdammt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "tags": [
        "German",
        "Southern",
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "sakra"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "cribbio"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "dannazione"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "foccalabindella"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "miseriaccia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "ostia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "perbacco"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "urca"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "caraças"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.",
      "word": "caramba"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blimey"
}

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