pog

Milk caps (game)
Passion Orange Guava
Twitch.tv

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₁-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pet-der.?
Latin patior
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Latin -tiō
Latin passiōbor.
Old English passion
Latin passiōbor.
Old French passionbor.
Middle English passioun
English passion
Latin frūctus
Old French fruitbor.
Middle English fruyt
English fruit
English passion fruit
Proto-Mon-Khmer *lŋaamder.?
Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga)bor.
Classical Persian نَارَنْگ (nārang)bor.
Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj)bor.
Old Occitan auranjabor.
Old French orengebor.
Middle English orenge
English orange
Taíno *wayababor.
Spanish guayababor.
English guava
English POG
English pog
Proto-Italic *kampos
Latin campusbor.
Proto-West Germanic *kamp
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-West Germanic *-jan
Proto-West Germanic *kampijan
Proto-Germanic *-jô
Proto-West Germanic *-jō
Frankish *kampijōbor.
Medieval Latin campiō
Old French champiunbor.
Middle English champioun
English champion
English champ
English pogchamp
English pog
A clipping of PogChamp, an emoticon used on streaming site Twitch.tv, depicting streamer Ryan Gutierrez and derived from his 2011 video called "Pogs Championship" where he wins a game of Pogs. The game is named after the drink Passion Orange Guava, abbreviated POG.
An erroneous folk etymology states that pog is an acronym for "play of the game," as the term is commonly used within the video game streaming community.

etymon

I just got my paycheck for the month. Pog!

(Internet slang, text messaging, Twitch-speak) Used to denote excitement.


queek

A soft “Queek, queek!” made her look up and listen.

1865, Louisa May Alcott, Nelly's Hospital:

No nest was to be seen, no parent birds hovered overhead, and little Robin could only tell its troubles in that mournful “Queek, queek, queek!”

2002?, James Marten, The Boy of Chancellorville and Other Civil War Stories (page 67)

A vocal sound produced by certain birds.


velcome

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


thank God it's Friday

I can finally relax tomorrow. Thank God it's Friday!

Expressing pleasure that the workweek has ended and the weekend has come.

sextou

interjection expressing pleasure that the weekend has come


peace be upon him

Calque of Arabic عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ (ʕalayhi s-salāmu, “peace be upon him”)

calque

عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ

Peace be upon him
Peace be upon him in Judaism

Jesus, peace be upon him, travelled to […]

(Islam) an honorific phrase used by Muslims after any mention in speech or print of holy persons

Таңара кинини алҕаатын уонна айхаллаатын

Guds frid och välsignelser vare med honom

(Judaism) an honorific phrase used by some Jews after mentioning the deceased in speech or print


be quiet

(imperative) Remain silent. Sometimes used as a more polite synonym of shut up.


oll korrect

A deliberate, humorous corruption of all correct, dating from the 1830s, recognized as one of several possible origins for the term OK.

It is a curious fact that the telegraph clerks in England and America employ the letters ‘O. K.,’ when they send a telegram that a message has been received Oll Korrect.

1869, Charles Godfrey Leland, Hans Breitmann's Barty and other Ballads, John Camden Hotten, p. 43 (Google preview)

"My Lord!" exclaimed Levin; "that's twenty-five dollars, ain't it, sir?"

1884, George Alfred Townsend, The Entailed Hat, or Patty Cannon's Times, Harper & Brothers, p. 182 (Google preview)

When faced with the problem of toponymic derivatives, I turn to Prof. Allen Walker Read, the etymologist who tracked down the source of O.K. (Oll korrect, not Old Kinderhook - stop writing me about this. O.K.?)

1982 June 6, William Safire, “On Language”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-01-23:

[E]verything about Jacob made me think of sex. Even fairly prosaic things—the way his lips puckered into a pout when he bit into his sandwich, the way he said certain words—minor words, like the abbreviated oll korrect, also known as okay.

2002, Tiffanie DeBartolo, God Shaped Hole: A Novel, →ISBN, page 54:

Allan Metcalfe's new book . . . devotes a chapter to trying to explain why readers of the Boston Morning Post might have been amused to see “o. k.” used as a jokey abbreviation for “oll korrect,” an intentional misspelling of “all correct.”

2010 October 28, Jeremy McCarter, “Party at the OK Corral”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2014-01-23:

“Well, hell, that's the glory of English. You can speak it ten thousand different ways, and it's still O. K.”
“That barbarous expression! 'O. K.' What does this mean?”
“Oll Korrect,” said Calvin. “Making fun of people who care too much about how words get writ down.”

2010, Orson Scott Card, Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker, →ISBN, page 64:


all hands

all hands on deck
all hands on deck#English


salaam alaikum

Borrowed from Arabic السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ (as-salāmu ʕalaykum, “peace be upon you”). Doublet of shalom aleichem.

bor+

السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ

(Islam) A greeting said on meeting someone.

әссәләмәғәләйкүм

əssələməğələyküm


assalamu alaikum

“Assalamu alaikum, Nibal” Hajar said politely to the sleek, spotted animal. “I'm trying to find out what Allah is like. Do you know what Allah is like?” “Do I know what Allah is like?”

2005, Many Voices One Faith, →ISBN, page 72:

As an example, here is an exchange on the Islamic Awakening chat room, from February 27, 2002:
 ABDULLAH: Assalamu Alaikum. Does anyone know where you can find videos of jihad online?

2006, Gabriel Weimann, Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges, →ISBN, page 107:

She was all beauty; he reached out his hand to give her a program, and said, "Assalamu Alaikum Samia," as he handed the program to her […]

2010, Ameerah A. Rahman, The Unveiled: A Peak Into Lives as They are Unveiled, →ISBN, page 17:


bibbidi-bobbidi-boo

Originated in the 1948 novelty song “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo”, used in the 1950 film Cinderella.

(informal) A light-hearted magical incantation.

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo
Cinderella (1950 film)


eat it

(idiomatic, dismissal) used to taunt or end discussion with a conversation partner


uff da

From Norwegian, brought to the US by Scandinavian settlers.

(US, Upper Midwestern US) Expressing surprise, dismay, relief, exhaustion, or a sudden shock to the senses.


chig

So I'm slicing beans one after the other—chig, chig, chig, chig, chig—and everybody's giving me the beans, and I'm going like sixty when the boss comes by and says, "What are you doing?"

1985, Richard P[hillips] Feynman, edited by Edward Hutchings, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1997, →ISBN, page 140:

She dragged him along the wide bitumen path and past the slow chig-chig-chig of a lawn sprinkler. Deep inside the school the insect chorus buzzed and drilled: chairs scraping, kids yelling, a teacher's voice calling the roll.

1994, Glyn Parry, Monster Man, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Juniper, →ISBN, page 133:

No one had spoken in the taxi. The only sounds were those of the London rain pattering teasingly against the vehicle's rolled-up windows and the ever-present chig-chig-chig of the diesel engine as this silent threesome made their way north towards Mill Hill.

2001, Mitzi Szereto, “Melinda”, in Kerri Sharp, editor, Wicked Words 4: A Black Lace short-story collection, London: Black Lace, →ISBN, page 174:

The old trading-boat's continuous chig-chig-chigging was a friendly sound, and, by daylight, Su-Li took turns to steer the boat; yet there was often sufficient time for the boy to watch the water-buffalo in the plantations of the Red Basin, the patient stooping of the peasants, and, elsewhere, the bustle of the towns, their fishermen and their overcrowded ferries.

2004, John Chappell, “Su-Li, the Yangtse Boat Boy”, in 21 Fairy Tales and Other Tales, Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd, →ISBN, page 46:

Fun fact: The red-bellied woodpecker has a loud, harsh, rich "quirrr" call. It can also be heard calling a "chig-chig" series of notes in a descending chuckle.

2016 February 18, “Species Spotlight: Red-bellied woodpecker”, in Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Gannett Co., Inc., →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-30:

(onomatopoeia) Representing a sharp and repetitive sound.


'swounds

Contraction of God's wounds; see zounds.

'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):


gh

(online gaming slang) Initialism of good half.


well met

A shortening of It is well that we have met.

Bardolph: Well met, Corporal Nim.

c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act II, scene I:

" Well met ! Well met ! Thou'lt soon be set
Before the ale-cup flowing."

1833, Unknown translator, “The Death Song of Regner Lodbrog”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 33, page 915:

"Ho, Fios," Verne said as he raised a hand in greeting.
"Well met, Master Verne," the smallest of the dogs replied.

2011, James A Owen, The Dragon's Apprentice, →ISBN, page 120:


bumpety

I dropped the cup and it fell bumpety-bump down the stairs.

A bumping sound suggesting a jolting motion.


thank science

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

Constructed as a secular alternative to thank God, with the intent of emphasizing that modern conveniences are the product of human sciences such as engineering, medicine, etc., rather than divine action.

Thank science for UK production monarch DJ Deekline.

2010, Stuart Evans, Billion Dollar House Party review, Drum Media, 30 September 2010, page 28

The remorseless would-be bomber of Times Square, Faisal Shahzad, left his suburban life with a wife and young children to train at a terrorist camp in Pakistan and to learn (not very well, thank science!) how to make car bombs.

2010 October, Tristan Dickison, “Godfucked”, in Cipher, Colorado College, page 30:

“And there's a blast door I can close behind us. Thank Science.”

2012, Denise Rossetti, The Dark Rose, Berkley, →ISBN:

(Internet slang) Used to express gratitude or relief.


extree

(dated, slang or dialect) Alternative form of extra (the cry of a newspaper-seller)


ohmygod

“Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod! I can’t believe I’m going on a date with Chance Kain!”

2023, James L. Sutter, chapter 19, in Darkhearts, Andersen Press, →ISBN:


aw man

Alternative form of oh man Used to express annoyance or displeasure about something that happened.


dun dun dun

An onomatopoeic representation of a three-note dramatic sting (“short musical phrase”), probably the seventh to ninth notes (E♭-C-F♯) from the start of the theme music of the American police procedural television series Dragnet (first broadcast 1967–1970), which was used for dramatic effect during various episodes. The tune, originally simply called “Main Title” and later “Danger Ahead”, was composed by the American composer Walter Schumann (1913–1958), based on the beginning of the theme music of the film The Killers (1946) by the Hungarian-American composer Miklós Rózsa (1907–1995).

I am not going to tell you the exact locations of my stops, but my final destination (dun dun dun) is London, England. It is there that I will figure out my life purpose.

2006, H. M. Leathem, chapter 3, in W.T.F.?: What Is Wrong with Tom Faerie, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 22:

"All right—dun, dun, dun! Time to get measured, hon." Luke tried to play off the seriousness of my weekly face-to-face with my own potential unworthiness to be a model with this little bit, but it made me feel even worse, thinking about how many empty calories in champagne and vodka I'd slurped down since I last saw him, […]

2007, Amanda Kerlin, Phil Oh, chapter 5, in Secrets of the Model Dorm, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 53:

In the movie [RoboCop (1987)], central Detroit is "Old Detroit." […] When police officer Alex Murphy starts his term in Old Detroit, his fellow officers tell him, "Welcome to hell." / Dun dun dun.

2012, Mike Draper, “Will the Last One out of the Midwest just Remember to Extinguish the Tire Fire?”, in The Midwest: God’s Gift to Planet Earth!: An Illustrated Guide to the History and Culture of the Galaxy’s most Important Region, Des Moines, Iowa: Raygun, →ISBN, part 5 (We’re #1 by a Wider Margin than Usual!), page 192:

(informal) Used as a dramatic pause, or to emphasize that something is frightening, thrilling, etc.

tan-tan-tan

used as a dramatic pause, or to emphasize that something is frightening, thrilling, etc.

dun

imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music


otay

(nonstandard, childish or feminine) Alternative form of okay


adad

Euphemistic alteration of ah God; compare adod, egad.

“And adad,” said Andrew, “you had best not neglect these orders of that worthy knight […].”

1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.4:

‘We'll have no ranting, Dick,’ said the old Knight to the young Franklin; ‘adad, man, we'll have none, for three reasons.’

(Late Modern, obsolete) Expressing emphasis or asseveration; indeed.


shart

Shart, if my haire stand not an end...

c. 1596, Sir Thomas More, Act III, Scene ii, l. 276:

(obsolete) Alternative spelling of 'sheart.


true that

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"This weather sucks." "True that."

(colloquial) Used to show agreement; indeed.


wowzah

Either a Blend of yowzah + wow or wowzer, or a variation of wowzer, wowser.


wink wink nudge nudge

nudge nudge wink wink
nudge nudge wink wink#English

Alternative form of nudge nudge wink wink.


ooff

Quickly he turned back, his shoes digging in, churning up the sand as he scurried along the beach. The next thing he knew—ooff—he was flat on the ground, his head slamming against the sandy surface.

2013, Thomas W. Dawson, The Mystery of the Old Gold Mine, page 208:


hyuk

Alternative form of nyuk (“exaggerated laugh”)


plinkety

A plinking sound suggesting more than one note being played.


chrissakes

used to express annoyance or frustration


hyah

Hyah, mule! Hyah!

a call, often to horses, livestock, or cattle, to move forward or proceed


hyah

(martial arts) a vocalisation used when performing a technique or striking a blow


yunno

Yunno the night I was to your house, when he made remarks about me gittin' a few long-distance calls an' them goin' on his bill, I seen what he was!

1913, Helen van Campen, “The Woes of Two Workers”, in McClure's Magazine, XLII, No. 1 (Nov. 1913) pp. 65-8:

1975, John B. Bremner, review of Strictly Speaking, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 1975; vol. 52, 1: p. 156. http://books.google.com/books?id=OYtZAAAAMAAJ&q=hopeably&dq=hopeably&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iSbJU8KuAaLLsATPk4GYDw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAzgU
Hopeably, Newman will win awards for Strictly Speaking. Like, yunno, I mean, Newman writes real good like newsmen used to could.

"I mean ... I just need to disappear for a while ... Yunno, to take care of me."

2001, Moon Unit Zappa, America the Beautiful, Simon & Schuster:

(slang, pronunciation spelling) you know


dizamn

Dizamn! Once again there I go / But this time it's channel thirteen on Arsenio

1995, “Put on tha Set”, in WC and the Maad Circle (music), Curb Servin':

Dizamn, with the dizark, cuz that's that kid / Unmask that kid, look at that bastard kid

1995, “Gotti Style (I Shot Ya Freestyle)”, DMX (music), performed by featuring Ja Rule:

(African-American Vernacular slang) Damn.


steerike

Emphatic form of strike (usually associated with umpires in baseball).


toi, toi, toi

/tɔɪ tɔɪ tɔɪ/

From German toi, toi, toi, which see for more.

good luck

considered to bring misfortune if used in the theatre

(theater, opera) A superstitious expression of encouragement prior to a performance.


three cheers

"Three cheers for Jack! Hip hip!"
"Hooray!"
"Hip hip!"
"Hooray!"
"Hip hip!"
"Hooray!"

An exclamation of congratulations, usually followed by "hip hip hooray".


rut roh

“Rut roh,” commented Trent as Jason sat up straighter.

2003, Emily Drake, The Curse of Arkady, Penguin, page 139:

Rut roh! I didn't know what my friend was going to do.

2007, Julie Barnhill, One Tough Mother, Baker Books, page 119:

“Rut-roh! Rut-roh!” Jefferson suddenly exclaimed. “Scooby Dooby Doo!”

2011, Ralph Reed, Ballots and Blood, B&H Publishing Group, page 338:

“Uh-oh,” I said to Ghost. I said it like Scooby-Doo. “Rut-roh!” The joke didn't make either of us feel any better.

2012, Jonathan Maberry, Assassin's Code, Macmillan, page 368:


God be with the days

God be with the days when people had respect for their elders.

(Ireland, informal) A phrase alluding to better days of yesteryear, often followed by the thing the speaker regrets losing.


consarnit

Each threw in his two cents, instructing both me and my cousin Ryan so that by the time we were nine, after years of gentle lessons, I could engage the consarnit transmission without any crunching.

2013, Nick Offerman, Paddle Your Own Canoe:


yee ha

1984-1986, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I'm a'ginna join a gay men's motorcycle club and see iffin I kin find myself a motorcycle daddy! YEE HA


arigato

/ˌɑːɹiˈɡɑːtoʊ/

/ˌɑːɹiˈɡɑːtəʊ/

Borrowed from Japanese ありがとう (arigatō, “thank you”).

And though those arigato smiles/Stay in your memory for a while/There still seems more to come

1974, Neville "Noddy" Holder, Jim Lea (lyrics and music), “Far Far Away”, in Slade in Flame (UK 7" vinyl single, 11 Oct 1974; UK LP as either 12" vinyl or cassette tape, 29 Nov 1974; US 12" vinyl LP, 1975 ?June), performed by Slade, Polydor (London, UK) 2058 522, 2442 146, 3170 209; Warner Bros (Los Angeles, USA) BS 2865; no US 7" release; no US LP release till 1975:

(colloquial) Thank you (used in the context of, or to evoke, Japanese culture).

اَرِيقَاتُو

“thank you”, used in the context of, or to evoke, Japanese culture


shoosh

Plain enough," said the man who had been studying his foot on the chair. "Some one pulled the plug."
"And away she goes--shoosh!" said the big man dramatically.
"Kennedy & Balch buying right and left. Open at a hundred and twenty-five to-morrow, sure!" said the quiet one quietly.
Placed an order yesterday for four hundred shares and got 'em," said another, not so quietly. "And to-day they're bidding Federal Express up to the ceiling."

2005 May 2 [1913], Harry Leon Wilson, “Chapter XI”, in Bunker Bean, Garden City, New York: DOUBLEDAY, PAGE, via Gutenberg:

There came suddenly out of the surrounding din of battle four quick car-filling rushes of sound--sh-sh-sh-shoosh--ba-ba-ba-bang!

2008 April 15 [1916], Boyd Cable, “"The Cost"”, in Between The Lines, Toronto: Mcclelland, Goodchild, & Stewart, via Gutenberg:

Suddenly Manakin twisted his torso, flung up his arms, and went, 'Shoosh!' It was so fine an imitation of a gunshot that everyone jumped.

1995, Felix Roziner, translated by Michael Henry Heim, A Certain Finkelmeyer, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 89:

Many women hear the shoosh—shoosh of the unborn heart at the first prenatal exam and see the face of their moving, growing unborn child in an ultrasound image early in the second trimester.

1988, Camille S. Williams, “Abortion and Equality Under the Law”, in Neil L. York, editor, Toward A More Perfect Union: Six Essays on the Constitution, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 151:

Shoosh! Shoosh! Ouch! The tragic deaths of Sonny Bono and Michael Kennedy remind us that sliding down the side of a mountain, like any recreational activity, must be approached with safety in mind.

2002, John C. Myre, Live Safely in a Dangerous World, Safety Times, →ISBN, page 182:


God's bones

(archaic) An oath expressing anger, astonishment, etc.


arrey

The dhoti-clad Indian mystic's anger simmered, dangerously close to exploding. 'Arrey! This is just not done in our Indian culture!'

2007, Sonja Chandrachud, The Potion of Eternity:

'Arrey baba! How much will you study?' Ma strode into my room with a glass of Bournvita.

The boy screamed, ‘Arre, arre, don't! Don't you dare!’

2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 26:

(India) Expressing surprise or alarm; hey.


no siree Bob

(US, colloquial) Definitely not; no way.


giggity-giggity

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Can't Hardly Wait
Family Guy
Glenn Quagmire

Catchphrase of Glenn Quagmire, a hypersexed character in the American animated television series Family Guy (first broadcast in January of 1999).
First used in the movie Can't Hardly Wait, released in June 1998. giggity giggity


please God

absolute construction; comparable to the phrase (if) it please God (present subjunctive mood); apt to be reanalyzed by many listeners today as if vocative/direct address (e.g., please God grant, in second person and imperative mood), but absolute and subjunctive in origin.


igad

'Tis so dark, that igad I could hardly find the Table.

1691, Thomas Durfey, Madam Fickle: Or the Witty False One:


get screwed

Get screwed! I can do this without you!

(slang, mildly offensive, dismissal) Go away! Get lost!


yessiree Bob

(informal) A more enthusiastic form of yessiree.


ye gods and little fishes

But out of school, Ye gods and little fishes! how Tommy did carouse! He wound fat Asia up in her own clothes line against the post, and left here there to fume and scold for half an hour one busy Monday morning.

1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:


lullay

Imitative or onomatopoeic sounds to lull a child to sleep. See also lull and lullaby. Compare Icelandic lúlla, German lullen.

...in "Ludus Coventriæ", of the 15th century, we find a specimen of a Lullaby Song ... lully, lullay, Thou little tiny CHILD,

1866, Edmund Sedding, “Lullaby Carols”, in The Gentlemen's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, page 89:

(archaic) Used to soothe or urge someone to sleep.


mashallah

From Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللّٰه (mā šāʔa llāh).

bor

مَا شَاءَ ٱللّٰه

Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللّٰه (mā šāʔa llāh)

what hath God wrought

similar literal meaning and historically in usage

Mashallah, I hear Akhmad say. Mashallah. I ask him what it means. “Mashallah, it's to be thankful. Something wonderful.” It means, literally, “God wills it.” And yet it seems, there's a kind of joy inside the word, too. Some large, cosmic gratitude.

2019, Maggie Paxson, The Plateau, Penguin, →ISBN, page 308:

divine intervention
divine intervention#English

(Islam) Expressing the speaker's gratitude for a blessing or their recognition of divine intervention in its occurrence. God willed it.

Coordinate term: knock on wood

'Mashallah, fine set of boys you've got here, sir,' he smiled, shaking us all by the hand, and giving Jamal a mock punch on the shoulder. 'Y'all new to the masjid?' ' Yes, we are,' Dad answered him. 'It's our first time here as a family.'

2014, Na'ima B. Robert, She Wore Red Trainers: A Muslim Love Story, Kube Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:

(Islam) Expressing the speaker's wish for a fortune to be maintained, especially against the evil eye; used in congratulation.

An indication of excitement, surprise or astonishment. Wow!


white rabbits

Alternative form of white rabbit (phrase said on the first of the month)


sod this for a game of soldiers

"All that grovelling. It's no wonder most people say, 'Sod this for a game of soldiers'. It's a very odd person who retains practising religion."

1996 December 8, Caroline Sutton, “My First One-in-a-Bath Romp, by Father Ted”, in Sunday Mirror:

In the middle of a very hot mixed-up fight one of our men remarked drily on his radio "What price this for a game of soldiers!"

1941, James Lansdale Hodson, Through the dark night: being some account of a war correspondent's journey, meetings and what was said to him in France, Britain, and Flanders during 1939-40, V. Gollancz Ltd., page 343

A cold gust of wind fans your face, you shiver slightly, you have been standing still, "get moving," you say to yourself, only another hour to do, the rifle is heavy, brrrr, blow this for a game of soldiers, they have no consideration at all.

1952, Hashomer Hatzair, Forging the link: a handbook of Hashomer Hatzair, page 108:

(UK, Ireland) Expressing exasperation or impatience with a situation.


baruch HaShem

Which is why we drill in that they NEVER take even their asthma meds without parental supervision. Baruch HaShem, they've got it.

1993 January, D. C. Sessions, “Re: Potheads of the 70's Raising Kids”, in misc.kids (Usenet):

Baruch HaShem and Shalom (Peace) to you and yours.

2003 February 16, ChabadRainbow (username), “Key To World Peace - 7 Noachide Universal Laws”, in alt.gathering.rainbow (Usenet):

And baruch HaShem! we were untouched by the storm.

2004 August 14, Gloria Lenon, “Re: Diabetes and FM”, in alt.med.fibromyalgia (Usenet):

Alternative letter-case form of baruch Hashem


chuffing hell

Chuffin' hell! What were that?!

A minced oath, an expression of dismay, disgust, anger, surprise etc.

What the chuffin' hell are yer doin' 'ere?

Used like "what the hell" to add emphasis.


proot

[He] taught me the true cry or masonic word of donkey-drivers, ‘Proot!’

1879 June, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, London: C. Kegan Paul & Company, →OCLC, page 18:

The window is handed in [to a wicker carriage]. Her feet are wound around with comforters against a draft... Her ample bag of knitting is safe aboard... Proot! The donkey starts.

1917, Charles S. Brooks, There's Pippins and Cheese to Come, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →OCLC, page 38:

A command to a donkey or mule to move faster.


proper job

"I've painted the fence."
"Proper job!"

(UK, West Country) Good work; well done.


peow

As I fire, I think, I am so glad these aliens aren't experienced fighters, because they're all lined up ready to fire at me, but at four hundred lasers per second, I'd like to see them dodge it. “Peow, peow, peow!” Six seconds and they're all dead […]

(mostly in children's games) Sound of a gun or similar weapon firing.


awoo

Alternative form of aroo (“howl of a wolf or dog”)


yah boo sucks

Since this is the world of the comics, it seems likely that scientific evidence of the true nature of the phenomenon will not end the debate. If it does, then Yah, boo, sucks!

1971, Dr Martin Sherwood, New Scientist and Science Journal:

These things should be in pockets the world over, saying: 'Made in Britain, so yah-boo-sucks'.

'How do you know?' said the pretend Hamish. 'Nobody can tell the difference. Yah boo sucks!'

2004, Humphrey Carpenter, Mr Majeika and the Haunted Hotel:

(British) A childish expression of derision or scorn.


gertcha

Get out of here!
get out of here#English

(Cockney, slang) Get out of here! No way! (expression of disbelief)


oh ar

Oh ar, that's a good idea.

(UK, West Midlands) Used to indicate agreement.

Oh ar, you and whose army?

(UK, West Midlands) Used to introduce a refutation, sometimes sarcastically.


oo arr

Oo arr, that's a good idea.

(UK, West Country) Used to indicate agreement.

Oo arr, you and whose army?

(UK, West Country) Used to introduce a refutation, sometimes sarcastically.

You like peaches? Oo arr.

(UK, West Country) Used to imply innuendo.


grassy arse

'Then what are we waiting for? Waiter, the bill?' 'Gracias, senor.' 'And grassy arse to you. Come on, let's go.'

1955, The London Magazine, volume 2, page 63:

(humorous) Eye dialect spelling of gracias.


ungh

Used for emotional emphasis, usually in funk music.


nani

Nani the fuck?


hrmm

“Hrmm. I see your stylist's been working nights.” He surveyed the train wreck of my hair in the rearview mirror.

2009, Matthue Roth, Never Mind The Goldbergs:


shabash

Borrowed from Hindi शाबाश (śābāś), from Classical Persian شاباش (šābāš), from the term شاد باش (šād bāš, “be happy”), from شاد (“joyful”) + باش (“be (imperative)”).

"'Shabash! coach-wan,' exclaimed the sahib; 'thou art a man, indeed, and shalt have Shere Bahadoor's skin as recompense for the hurt to thy stomach. Bid him come again.'

1899, Dr. Charles William Doyle, “How Nandha was Avenged”, in The Taming of the Jungle, page 147:

Shabash! Shabash! from every tongue, and mothers' hearts stood still

1920, Sir James Willcocks, “Hurnam Singh”, in With the Indians in France:

(India) An exclamation of praise for an achievement.


oi oi

- Hans, is it perhaps time we had a word with Jeremy?
- Oh, yeah. Jez, listen... Oi oi, tequila slammers!

2004, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, “Wedding” (around 6 min 30 sec from the start), in Peep Show, season 2, episode 12:

- Oi oi!
- Sorry mate, we don't serve your kind here.

2007, “Never Drink Alone”, in The Road to Rampton, performed by The Anti-Nowhere League:

Oi oi!

2007, James Corden, Ruth Jones, around 4 min 30 sec from the start, in Gavin & Stacey, season 1, episode 1:

(UK, slang) hey; look; drawing attention to something


leapin' lizards

Popularised by the comic strip Little Orphan Annie


I am not

I am not something (canonical)
someone (canonical)

I am not Charlie Hebdo!

Indicates absence of solidarity or a support of a shared conviction with the person or object upon which a perceived injustice is being inflicted, usually in opposition to the majority of society.


whoa, Nelly

From whoa! (a command to slow or stop) + Nelly (a common name for a mule or horse). A popular catch-phrase, together with "Whoa, Nellybelle" on the Roy Rogers TV show (1951–1957).

af

...the jeep’s brakes never quite worked, even when Brady uttered the catch phrases "Whoa, Nellybelle" or "Whoa, Nelly."

an exclamation of surprise, especially one in response to an unexpected acceleration of speed


bud-bud-ding-ding

(offensive, derogatory) Mimicking South Asian speech, possibly in a derogatory, racist way.


bye, Felicia

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A line from the comedy film Friday (1995), used to dismiss the character Felisha (not Felicia), who irritates people in the neighborhood by begging and borrowing.

(slang, neologism, African-American Vernacular) Used as an abrupt sarcastic dismissal of somebody who is present.


fml

Alternative letter-case form of FML (fuck my life).


holy hell

An exclamation of astonishment or horror.


pee-ew

"Pee-ew," he exclaimed. "She fouled up the whole shirt with that perfume of hers. I can smell it all over."

1947, Leslie Waller, Show Me the Way, page 50:

“Pee-ew, girl do you stink!” Renee said. “Go take those boots off!”

"Pee-ew!" Nancy said, squeezing her nose.

2007, Carolyn Keene, The Halloween Hoax:

The sudden quiet brought Sean and the dog running into the room, tripping over each other. "Katie looks like a skunk," Sean said. "Pee-ew."

2008, Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane, page 44:

...when I get a whiff of precisely where this scent is coming from: my sweaty (and slightly hairy) armpit. Pee-ew.

2009, Janna Cawrse Esarey, The Motion of the Ocean, page 163:

After sniffing her toilet bowl (hey—anything in the name of science!), I said, "Pee-ew!"

2010, Lissa Rankin, What's Up Down There?, page 318:

"Pee-ew, smells like moth balls in here," Sasha said over her shoulder.


ba dum tss

At press time, HipCityVeg was buying burgers from McDonald's and making a “healthy” (Ba Dum Tss) profit.

2013, "Report: HipCityVeg Admits Wrongdoing, Hopes To Reopen As 40th Street McDonald's", 34th Street (joke issue), 5 December 2013, page 19

9. The thought. It counts! *ba dum tss*

2014, "Top Ten Worst Gifts", The Union (Milpitas High School, Milpitas, California), Volume 26, Issue 3, December 2014, page 5

All in all, the column was so weak and bitter that it's probably being served at Dunkin' Donuts (ba dum tss).

2015, Eleanor Hildebrandt, "The true scourge of Super Bowl XLIX", The Heights (Boston College), Volume 96, Number 6, 5 February 2015, page 97


LMTO

(Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of laughing my tail off.

(Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of laughing my tits off.

(Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of laughing my testicles off.


bah humbug

/bɑː ˈhʌmbʌɡ/

/ˌbɑ ˈhʌmˌbʌɡ/

A Christmas Carol
Chapman & Hall
Charles Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge
Jacob Marley

From bah (interjection expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper) + humbug (“balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!”). The words were originally spoken by the miser Ebenezer Scrooge in the novella A Christmas Carol (1843) by English author Charles Dickens (1812–1870).

Honor!—bah! humbug! Patriotism!—pshaw! / Are we to be bamboozled by such guys?

1848 January 22, “Important Official Documents”, in The John-Donkey, volume I, number IV, New York, N.Y.: Published and supplied by George Dexter, Burgess, Stringer & Co., W. H. Graham, R. G. Berford & Co. [et al.], →OCLC, page 126, column 2:

Only a modern Scrooge could say, "Bah, Humbug," where helping people to get enough to eat is concerned. Well, we are not going to argue that food aid has never filled an empty stomach or saved a dying child—but we will contend, in the case of the United States at least, that it has done so only inadvertently.

1976, Susan George, “Food Aid? … Or Weapon?”, in How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger, Harmondsworth, London; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books; reprinted Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1989, page 164

[O]nce you understand why Bah Humbug is a good term, you will see that it is going to become packed with a biblical position that could warrant every Christian to mindfully say "Bah Humbug" about the Christmas Holiday, and know what it is they are meaning. Bah Humbug is going to work succinctly.

2012, C. Matthew McMahon, Therese B. McMahon, “Scrooge Had It Right, but for the Wrong Reasons”, in Bah Humbug: How Christians Should Think about the Christmas Holiday, Coconut Creek, Fla.: Puritan Publications, →ISBN, pages 5–6:

(humorous) Expressing cynicism, disillusionment or distrustfulness; and specifically a dislike of Christmas and its celebrations and festivities.


shitballs

(slang, vulgar) Exclamation of anger or dismay.


kwitcherbitchin

(colloquial, vulgar) Pronunciation spelling of quit your bitching.


hiyo

Catchphrase of TV presenter Ed McMahon in response to the quips of Johnny Carson.

(humorous) Drawing attention to a preceding joke or pun.


read 'em and weep

I've got a full house. Read 'em and weep, boys.

(informal) Used to express confidence when showing a winning poker hand.

Today's BellaHater Award goes halfsies to Zephyr Addler and Mercedes Sanchez! Zephyr 4 sticking it 2 Bella by tongue wrestling with TLC. Way 2 Go! And Mercedes 4 outing them. Poor Bella! What's a girl 2 do? Suffer bitch! You've made everybody else's life hell and what comes around goes around, so read 'em and weep . Yer not the only mean girl in town.

2009, Heather Swain, Me, My Elf & I, →ISBN:

(informal, by extension) Used as a taunt when outperforming or one-upping rivals.


thanksh

Pronunciation spelling of thanks, suggesting that the speaker is drunk.


ptew

Alternative form of ptui (“sound of spitting”)


googly-moogly

A related form appears in 1953 as the title of the song “Good Googa Mooga,” a B-side recorded by the Magic Tones, and in the song “Stranded in the Jungle” recorded in 1956 by The Cadets, who added the line “Great goo-ga-moo-ga!” which did not appear in other artists' recordings of the song made that same year. The current form first appears in Howlin' Wolf's 1961 cover of blues singer St. Louis Jimmy Oden's 1942 song “Goin' Down Slow”.
The 'great googly moogly' version of the term is heard in the song 'Don't eat the yellow snow' on Frank Zappa's 1974 album 'Apostrophe.'

Googly-moogly! What more could any human being possibly want?

1994, Brad Warner, Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality:

Great googly-moogly! M'Chunga thought. Now this was more like it!

2003, Beth Elliott, Don't Call it Virtual:

“Great googly-moogly!” the Vinaigrettes cry together. “We're rich,” says Olive. “It's a mighty fine find,” says Herb.

2005, Brian McCreight, The Legend of the Lowcountry Liar and Other Tales of a Tall Order, →ISBN:

Expression of surprise, disbelief, delight, or fear.

Howlin' Wolf
St. Louis Jimmy Oden
The Cadets (group)


om mani padme hun

om mani padme hum
om mani padme hum#English

Alternative spelling of om mani padme hum


lovaduck

'That's a good one, that is!' said Ern. 'Lovaduck, I'd like to see Uncle Theophilus when I tell him that!'

1948, Enid Blyton, The Mystery of the Hidden House:


growlf

(Internet, furry fandom) Expressing mild aggression or irritation.


durka durka

Imitative; introduced in 2001 by the American cartoon South Park in the episode "Osama bin Laden has Farty Pants".

(offensive, ethnic slur) Mimicking Middle Eastern speech.


googly moogly

I found the website and found people mingling scholarship with faith – great googly moogly!

2010, Michael T. Cooper, Contemporary Druidry: A Historical and Ethnographic Study, →ISBN:


tena koe

(New Zealand) A greeting (to a single person)


blood and ouns

Och, blood an ouns! what can the matter be !

1807, Colman Jr., The Mountaineers, in The English and American Stage - Volume 13, page 36:

Blood an 'ouns can't you say something.

1833, The New Theatrical Observer and Censor of the Stage, page 70:

She laughed, and blood and ouns ! I heard the expression and kissed them all round, ay, the heiress herself!

1840, Margaret Baron-Wilson, Chronicles of life, page 77:

(archaic, dialectal, mildly blasphemous) Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, frustration.


horse and hattock

From the Scottish folk tradition that this is the cry that fairies make when they leave a place.

...but one of their number being, it seems, a little more bold and confident than his companion, said Horse and hattock with my top!' and immediately they all saw the top lifted up from the ground, but could not see which way it was carried, by reason of a cloud of dust which was raised at the same time.

1835, Fraser's magazine for town and country - Volume 11, page 219:

Archroy had noticed that his old Morris Minor, which his wife described as 'an eyesore', was no longer upon its blocks in the garage but seemed to have cried horse and hattock and been carried away by the fairies.

1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope, →ISBN, page 18:

The Miscellanies of John Aubrey (1626-97) noted two cases involving the phrase "Horse and Hattock" and fairy levitation.

2001, Lizanne Henderson, Edward J. Cowan, Scottish Fairy Belief: A History, →ISBN, page 37:

A call that invokes the fairies to transport someone or something.

I haid a little horse, and wold say, " Horse and Hattock, in the Divellis name !"

1833, Criminal Trials in Scotland: 1609-1624, page 604:

Isabel Gowdie of Auldearne in 1662[318] announced that she had two forms of words, one was "Horse and Hattock in the Devil's name"; the other was, "Horse and Hattock! Horse and go! Horse and Pellatis! Ho! Ho!"

2004, Margeret Alice Murray, The God of the Witches, →ISBN:

We would fly like straws when we please; wild-straws and com-straws will be horses to us, if we put them between our feet and say, 'Horse and Hattock, in the Devil's name!'

2011, Norman Cohn, Europe's Inner Demons, →ISBN, page 158:

“Give it commands,” Mike concluded, “with the formula 'Horse and Hattock,' and activate it by saying three times: Horse and Hattock, horse and go, Horse and Pellattis, ho, ho!”

2011, Anthony C. Gilbert, Farther Up and Farther In, →ISBN, page 45:

An incantation used in witchcraft in order to fly.


ooh, matron

A catchphrase of Kenneth Williams' characters in the Carry On film series, said in response to comments from Hattie Jacques' hospital matron characters.

And, finally, here we have our groovy little DataSet, just ready to be pumped silly with information. Ooh, matron!

2002, Karl Moore, Karl Moore's Visual Basic .NET: The Tutorials, Apress, →ISBN, page 175:

'God, you've got a big head.'
'It's not the only big thing I've got.'
'Ooh, matron,' she giggled and then there was silence for a while until she gasped, 'Please don't stop.'

2012, Julia Llewellyn, Ten Minutes to Fall in Love, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

Once Tukaal had confirmed that all was well, we made our way out towards the perimeter fence and, following a quick flash of his Multi-Tool (ooh, Matron), scrambled through the hole he'd cut in the fence.

2013, Andy Ritchie, The Book That THEY Do Not Want You To Read: Part 2, Autharium, →ISBN:

(UK, slang) Highlights a statement which contains a double entendre or appears sexually forward.


gadsbud

Uncertain, either a contraction of God’s blood, or of God’s body

Don Jer. Gadsbud, and a great fortune! Ferdinand, you are a prudent young rogue, and I forgive you: and, ifecks, you are a pretty little damsel. Give your father-in-law a kiss, you smiling rogue!

1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, Scene VII:

(obsolete) An expression of surprise, shock, pleasure etc.


ermagerd

Imitating a particular pronunciation of the phrase. See ermahgerd

(humorous) Alternative form of oh my God


oh, snap

An expression of surprise, dismay, or both.


glook

That old man turned that bottle up and glook, glook, glook.

a. 1990, Scott Dunbar, quoted in 2009 by William R. Ferris in Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues →ISBN

(rare) Alternative form of glug (sound made when a liquid is poured out of a jug or bottle).


blood and thunder

Strap following, with the knapsack on his back, chanced to take the other side, and, by a jolt of the carriage, pitched directly upon the stomach of the captain, who bellowed out, in a most dreadful manner, “Blood and thunder! where’s my sword?”

1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter XI, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume I, London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, page 75:

"Man the capstan! Blood and thunder!—jump!"—was the next command, and the crew sprang for the handspikes.

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


welcum

“Welcum to McCaufreys, Billy Dean” he says. “Make yorself at home & hav a pie.”

2011, David Almond, The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean, Candlewick Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 121:


Lawdee

(pronunciation spelling, dated) Alternative form of lordy


bloody 'ell

(Commonwealth) Alternative form of bloody hell


shuah

(African-American Vernacular, Boston) Pronunciation spelling of sure.


g'bye

Contraction of goodbye.; compare g'day, g'night.


yuch

'Oh, yuch,' Emily said, making a face at Charlotte. 'You got Bob in your pocket? I hate Bob.'
Bob was a bug, a slow-moving black beetle as large as the last joint of Daddy's thumb, with faint blue markings on his carapace.


Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick

Variation of earlier Christ on a stick and Christ on a crutch.


vah

And ſaying: Vah, thou that deſtroyeſt the Temple of God and in three days doſs rebuild it; ſave thy own ſelf: if thou be the Son of God, come down from the Croſs.

1749, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. […] Newly reviſed, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures (Douay–Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision), Matthew 27:40, page 63:

(obsolete) Used to express distaste, disgust or outrage.


mmph

A muffled cry, as of a person whose mouth is covered by a gag.


woopy doo

I probably would have thought then - Oo, oo, woopy doo! So thrilling!

2010, Kerri Dyer-Keen, My Corner of the Sky, →ISBN:


woopy do

So woopy do, just the funeral to worry.


woopty-do

Another voice says,“Woopty-do, doesn't everyone?”

2014, Shaeah Love, From My Heart To Yours, →ISBN, page 125:


woopty doo

Hannah mumbled in a sarcastic icy tone. Woopty doo, she thought.

2013, Heather Stapp, The Narrow Path, →ISBN, page 51:


woopy-doo

'Oh woopy-doo!' muttered Dad. 'Rich beyond our wildest dreams, I don't think.'

2007, Jeremy Strong, My Brother's Famous Bottom, →ISBN:


whoopee doo

Big whoopee doo,” she said, making a circle in the air with her index finger.

1999, Timothy H. Sexton, Antichrist Superstar: The Musical, →ISBN, page 218:

Yes, the vicar came home early and we ate artichoke and asparagus and guzzled champagne, but that was just saying Whoopee doo!' and throwing hats in the air.

2009, John Brown Contract Publishing, Waitrose Food Illustrated, page 60:


whoopee-doo

Oh, wait, they did give me a certificate of appreciation on January 29, 1983, after my 1,000th mile. Well, whoop-de-do!

2014, Eric Neumann, Let John Finger Do The Walking, page 234:

I do my work but I don't say whoopee-doo. The day I get excited about my job is the day I go to a head shrinker.


whoop de doo

Fox news reported at 11:01 a.m., august 5, 2006, that the united states and France have agreed to a un security council resolution. whoop de doo!

2007, Skip Conover, Tsunami of Blood, →ISBN, page 172:


whoopy-doo

Default text-based hyperlinks look kinda boring: blue and underlined — whoopy-doo.

2006, Geoff Blake, Ten Ton Dreamweaver, →ISBN, page 249:

But whoopy-doo! You should have heard that man when he called me up next day.

1940, Kathleen Ann Smallzried, Press pass: a woman reporter's story, page 25:


whoop-dee-doo

We already know what comes next. Four years of college, and then another graduation. But whoop-dee-doo!

2012, Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl 8: Nothing Can Keep Us Together, →ISBN, page 82:


sod that for a game of soldiers

Was she seeing another side of Douglas? The slick businessman, with a patronising air for those less experienced than he was? Well, sod that for a game of soldiers!

2008, Ann Purser, Warning at One, →ISBN:

I can't help thinking that 99.9% of people would take one look at it, say 'Sod that for a game of soldiers'. and give up on their grand plans to start a bank.

2012, Dave Fishwick, Bank of Dave: How I Took on the Banks, →ISBN, page 97:

I'm supposed to say, 'What's wrong, Mam, what have I done?' but sod that for a game of soldiers.

2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 4:

sod this for a game of soldiers
sod this for a game of soldiers#English

Alternative form of sod this for a game of soldiers


goddessdammit

(rare, chiefly paganism or humorous) Synonym of goddammit


alhamdullilah

Alhamdullilah, he was safe and the worst was over.

2010, Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley, page 1:


alhamdulillah

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ (al-ḥamdu li-llāhi, literally “praise [be] to God”).

bor

اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ

bless you (Said to someone who has just sneezed.)


psht

"Psht!" said the old gentleman to himself, as he lay back in his easy-chair, revolving all these things in his mind — "how many of 'em have I seen? There was Miss Lavrock — charmin' voice she had, bright and shrill, like a bird's pipe […]

1868, Edmund Hodgson Yates, The Rock Ahead, volumes 1-2, page 209:

His shadowed eyes prowled the young dancers. "These," he said. "Psht." He spat. "They'll never know." He downed his beer […]

2011, Wyatt Underwood, Poems for Harley Riders and Other Transcendentals, page 45:

Psht! he says, with a shove in my ribs and an angry sidelong look. Why, of course: here I am, making all this racket when there's this oral test going on in front of the blackboard […]

1968, Frigyes Karinthy, Please Sir!, page 12:

"Psht! cat! You'll burn yourself," said the tailor.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 158:


truth to tell

Truth to tell, the supper had been waiting a most unreasonable time.

1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 51, in Oliver Twist:

Haggerty had his trouble for nothing. There was no clue whatever in Lord Monckton's suite. . . . Truth to tell, Haggerty had not expected to find anything.

1915, Harold MacGrath, chapter 13, in The Voice In The Fog:

In 1999 the American bishops mandated that if a college wanted to call itself Catholic, its theologians needed a bishop's good-housekeeping seal. And yet, truth to tell, the majority of Catholic schools hadn't really toed the line.

2008 April 17, David Van Biema, “The Pope on Academic Freedom”, in Time, retrieved 2015-07-07:

I am a huge fan [of farting]. Well, truth to tell I am more than a simple fan for having studied the act of breaking wind for most of my life I consider myself to be far more than a simple aficionado[…]

2012, Dougie Brimson, Art of Fart, →ISBN:

(set phrase) Actually; frankly; as a matter of fact.


shitcakes

Holy shitcakes! The remaining olive in my martini is no comfort as I register the presence of Evelyn and John B, two of Eli's artist friends.

2006, Doris Friedensohn, Eating as I Go: Scenes from America and Abroad:

"Shitcakes!" Charlie exclaimed, shaking his head in bewilderment. "You really do dance your own tango."

(vulgar) An expression of shock and dismay.


boomity

Once again, there are special effects, muscles and explosions, boomity boom boom.

2015 June 30, Manohla Dargis, “Review: ‘Terminator Genisys’ Shows That Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Most Assuredly Back”, in New York Times:

(informal) A booming sound suggesting repeated or moving explosions.


word is bond

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Shortening of "my word is my bond", popularized by its use among the Five-Percenter movement and hip-hop music.

Player Codes. Pg. 34.
Even people, who criticize your lifestyle, will have to respect the fact that you keep your word and your word is bond.

(African-American Vernacular) The speaker purports that he has told the truth or is trustworthy.


hot dang

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blige

Thought by some to be a shortening of "I'm obliged.".


hell mend someone

'You do not want to look after yourself at all. You want Roderick Peters to look after you. Well, hell mend you, Nicola, hell mend you,' Charlotte snapped ...

2008, Jessica Stirling, The Fields of Fortune, →ISBN:

And then hell mend you. You've never danced in your life, have you? Well, by God, she'll lead you a dance.

2010, George Friel, A Glasgow Trilogy, →ISBN, page 229:

Just because he's single he thinks he can do anything he wants with anybody and hell mend him if this latest venture turns sour on him.

2013, Christine Marion Fraser, Kinvara Wives, →ISBN:

(idiomatic, vulgar) Expressing exasperation at someone whose behavior is likely to result in trouble but who will not heed warnings.


lee-ho

(nautical) Used by the helm to announce that the vessel is tacking.


en-interj

dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians

Possibly first attested in 1988 as the title of a play by Tamara Kestrel and Susan Mindy.

(colloquial) Expression of surprise at something incredible.


care factor zero

As if reading a value from a measuring instrument.

(colloquial, humorous) I don't care; I have no interest in that.


upadaisy

Brangwen lightly lifted the tiny girl, with an “upadaisy”, then took his own place in the bed again.


eesh

But her hair...eesh. She could, however, wash up and brush her teeth—bless her hide, Mel had bought them all toothbrushes and a few essential toiletries—even if the only makeup she had in her purse was lipgloss.

2013, Karen Templeton, The Marriage Campaign, page 26:

Eesh! she shook her head in disbelief. What just happened?

2013, Elizabeth Collins, The Crossroads of Zil, page 238:

Eesh, she hated this apartment. Hated the ugly popcorn ceilings and the awkward floor plan. Why had she stayed?

Expressing distaste, disgust, or trepidation.


kill me

(idiomatic) Alternative form of shoot me


golly gee

golly gee shucks


I'll be damned

(sometimes considered, vulgar, idiomatic) An expression of surprise.

I'll be damned if I'm having a thief like him stay in my house.

My mechanisms / Of defense are down / And my resistance / Is out on the town / I was alarmed by your attack / This isn't a boxing match / But I'll be damned if I ever let you win

2011, Lenka, Ben H. Allen (lyrics and music), “Roll with the Punches”, in Two, performed by Lenka:

(sometimes considered, vulgar, idiomatic) A vehement asseveration that one will not permit some specified thing to happen.


goodby

[Charlie Brown to Snoopy:] Goodby, ol' pal... [Alone:] Goodbys always make my throat hurt...

1968 April 29, Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts:


trip-trap

First of all came the youngest Billy-goat, and was going over the bridge. Trip trap, trip trap, went the bridge. "Who is that tripping over my bridge?" shouted the troll.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 141:

Representing the sound of walking on a hard surface.


for the love of Goddess

for the love of God
for the love of God#English


good Goddess

“Good Goddess—you're right,” Andry murmured at last.

1994, Melanie Rawn, Skybowl, Penguin, →ISBN:


gimme some skin

(jive, slang) A request for the interlocutor to slap hands, fist bump, or perform a similar greeting ritual.


fuck off, we're full

(Australia, offensive) An anti-immigrant and anti-refugee slogan with racist overtones.


bombs away

Launch the torpedo on three! 1... 2... 3! Bombs away!

(usually military) Said after a projectile is unleashed.


gosh darn

Intentional misspelling of goddamn to avoid taking the Lord's name in vain.

(euphemistic) Euphemistic form of goddamn.


what is it

Honey, can you come over here for a minute?
Yes, dear, what is it?

Used to ask the listener what they want.

რა ხდება

interjection to ask the listener what they want

You're missing appointments, you're failing your classes .... what is it with you lately?

An expression of concern, asking for an explanation.


tks

(Internet slang, telex) Abbreviation of thanks.


that's the stuff

"Get out the Cardigan, Jasper," said the colonel to the man, who forthwith produced a three-quarters-full black bottle, with the word "Brandy," in black letters on the ivory label.
"Ah, that's the stuff!" exclaimed the colonel […]

1852, The New Monthly Magazine, page 310:

Said in approval of something pleasurable.


ohai

(DoggoLingo) Deliberate misspelling of oh hi.


bamf

Used as a teleportation sound effect in X-Men comics. Presumably imitative; compare bam, poof, etc.

(Internet) Signalling a user's disappearance from a discussion, chat room, etc.


qui-hi

Borrowed from Hindi कोई है (koī hai, “is anyone there?”).

bor

That he had seen service in India was, indeed, probable by his referring to lunch as tiffin, and calling to his parlourmaid with the ejaculation of “Qui-hi.”

1922, Edward Frederic Benson, Miss Mapp, Chapter 1:

(India, historical) An Anglo-Indian call for a servant.


fuck you very much

(vulgar) An ungrateful and dismissive remark.


eat a dick

Truancy-bot: Aren’t you boys supposed to be in class right now?

a. 2007, Nicholas Gurewitch, Perry Bible Fellowship

(slang, vulgar, dismissal) A dismissive remark.


you rang

A servant's response to a bell being rung as a summons. Originated with Maynard G. Krebs in the television sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; then popularized by the character Lurch in the American TV series The Addams Family.


wuddup

(slang) Alternative form of what's up (as a greeting)


sheeit

"Aw, shee-it, Grandpap!" Travis postulated.

Pronunciation spelling of shit, representing African-American Vernacular and Southern US English.


daggum

Daggum! My car's been stolen!

(US, euphemistic, dialectal) goddamn; an expression of frustration


no no

No no, you got me all wrong!

(nautical) Response to ahoy if no officer is in the boat.


ooph

"Ooph!" Jeff grunted as I elbowed him in the rib.


mm-mm

[ˈ(ʔ)ḿ̩.ʔm̩̀]

Nasalized form of uh-uh; see fuller etymology there. Compare um, hem (expression of hesitation).

"Need some help?" She shook her head. “Mm-mm.”

2008, M.J. Fredrick, Where There's Smoke:

“Mm-mm,” I mumble, shaking my head.

2009, Michael Batdorf, Pair of Jacks: A Novel, →ISBN, page 112:

Mia cocked her head. “This is my fiancé's second wedding. He has a daughter. So I'm not sure if I should wear something . . . more second-wedding-ish? Like a white suit?” “Mm-mm.” Mia shook her head.

2013, Allison Leotta, Speak of the Devil: A Novel, →ISBN, page 250:


tarnations

Girl (wryly, as she moves to r. of Marnitski, looking at all the medicine). Oh, gracious me ! Oh, you poor thing ! King. Tarnations and thunderbolts !

1947, Paul Vincent Carroll, Guy Robertson, Plays for juvenile performers, page 22:

Hell and tarnations, I've known them for muddleheads and blockheads half my life, and firsthand, but I sure didn't expect them to take leave of their senses, insulting our office of President, making our Party into a white demagogue's party, slapping the Negro vote in the face.

1964, Irving Wallace, The Man, page 537:

Tarnations! You should be a cloth merchant with that blanket You're making it a hot thing and I'm cold.

Used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.


for $500, Alex

From the US game show Jeopardy!, formerly hosted by Alex Trebek.

I'll take things that never happened for $500, Alex. (Meaning you are guessing the event the speaker is referencing never actually happened.)

(humorous, Canada, US) This is my guess.


begorah

(Ireland) Alternative spelling of begorra


bo bian

From Hokkien 無變／无变 (bô-piàn, “no choice”).

In Singapore, there is no choice being one of the world’s twenty smallest countries. Boh pien ah.

2006, Stuart Lloyd, Gone Troppo: Hot Babes, Warm Weather, Cold Beer. Paradise!, Monsoon Books, page 13:

Eh, if cannot finish the work then bo bian must stay back

2011 August 21, Kirsten, “It's Singlish Lah!”, in SEA Youth Say So, retrieved 2015-10-22:

I have been sleep deprived for the past few days, and a friend who knows about it just sent me an online message: “Notti (lingo-speak for naughty) ah…still don’t sleep.” My reply, “Bobian (Singaporean-English term for no choice), I’m a workaholic…”

2013, Lena Chen, EFT Meditations, Trafford Publishing, page 8:

He already paid for my ticket so even if I was busy, boh pien, I would have to go.

2015 September 22, CLEO MAGAZINE, “11 WORDS THAT EVERY SINGAPOREAN WOULD UNDERSTAND”, in CLEO, archived from the original on 2016-03-04:

(Singapore, Malaysia, informal) No choice; it cannot be helped.


land sakes

"Land sakes! I don't keep a boardin' house!"

1886, Horatio Alger, chapter 28, in Helping Himself:

Well, as soon as Alice finished singing, land sakes! goodness, gracious me! if a big fox didn't pop out from behind a tree.

1912, Victor Appleton, chapter 31, in Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble:

The fourth annual “Way Up North in Mississippi” picnic was well under way in Central Park yesterday. . . . There were twangy cries of “land sakes” and “don't that beat all” and choruses of “hi, y'all.”

1983 June 19, Philip Shenon, “For Homesick Mississippians, a Day Full of Grits and Grins”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-11-03:

“One of the McDougal young'uns? Well, land sakes—haven't seen you in a coon's age.”

2015, Lori Copeland, My Heart Stood Still, →ISBN, page 41:

(chiefly US, somewhat dated and rustic) An expression of surprise or dismay.


blimy

Blimy if I don't believe 'e's taking 'ome 'is washing up his back.

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:

‘Blimy, Will,’ he said confidentially.

1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:


fair shake of the sauce bottle

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fair suck of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sauce bottle#English

(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) Synonym of fair suck of the sauce bottle


kerthump

Ker-thump, shatter, shatter, Ker-thump, shatter, the sound of the round thermos rolling towards the stage.

2013, Suzy Harrison Ward, Walking on Sunshine, page 36:


shots fired

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: (especially law enforcement) indicates that a firearm has been discharged in the vicinity of the speaker.

I look at them. They're the boards of a novice-recently-turned-intermediate surfer.
'Does Garrett have any boards in the van?'
'Ooh, shots fired. What's wrong with my boards, eh?'

2016, Lisa Glass, Blue, unnumbered page:

Shots fired! Lonely Horse came out guns-a-blazing with the track "Devil in the White House."

2017 November 9, Gabe Vodicka, “Songs of Protest, Songs of Hope”, in Salt Lake City Weekly, page 16:

Drake clapped back less than 24 hours later with "Duppy Freestyle," in which he talked about once being a fan of Pusha's, called out "Infrared" producer Kanye West and warned that he'll be sending an invoice for all this extra publicity he's giving Pusha and his new album. And Drake really did send the record label an invoice for "promotional assitance and career reviving" with a $100,000 fee the next day. Shots fired!

2018, T. C. Britton, "Drake vs. Pusha-T: The Beef", CityBeat, 6 June 2018 - 12 June 2018, page 4

(idiomatic, slang) Used to indicate that one finds a statement or action derisive or combative.


piss be upon him

A pun on "peace be upon him", a phrase uttered by Muslims when mentioning the name of Muhammad.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:piss be upon him.

(offensive, vulgar) Used to insult an Islamic prophet.


yeet

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Popularized in March 2014 by the "yeet" dance which went viral on the now-defunct video sharing site Vine. The earliest known yeet dance is recorded in a YouTube video uploaded on February 3, 2014. However, examples of the interjection can be as found much earlier, including a 1998 use by British presenter Jeremy Clarkson as well as a 2008 definition of "yeet yeet" on Urban Dictionary.
As an expression used when throwing something, apparently coined by Vine user David Banna in a Vine uploaded on or before March 28, 2014 in which he throws a CD and yells out "YEET!", as well as a Vine uploaded April 4, 2014 of a high school student hurling an empty soda can and shouting "This bitch empty! YEET!"
After the 2014 trend, the term faded into relative obscurity before resurging in 2018.

The “YEET!” sound effect with the punch at :40

2014 June 11, J. Tinsley, “Now We Know Who Really Lost The Mistah Fab-DJ Mustard Fight”, in Uproxx:

After Richt got his shower, the Miami players surrounding him while yelling “YEET!” in unison.

2017 November 5, Harry Lyles Jr., “Miami players waited to surprise Mark Richt with a Gatorade bath for when they got into the locker room”, in SB Nation:

Often, my teenagers would exclaim "Yeet." I am still not quite sure what it means, but I knew they liked to say it, and it was usually after something positive.

2017 October 11, Caroline Fenkel, “The Power of an IRL Community: Creating Space for Teens to Unplug and Engage”, in U.S. News & World Report:

(slang) Expressing excitement or approval.

Towards the end of the fire, Kelling overheard the student talking to his friends about “yeeting” his “Speak Freely” into the fire... [He] ran up to the fence and threw his book toward the fire, yelling out “yeet” while he threw it.

2018 November 19, Zachary Shevin, “U. community gathers, chants, ‘yeets’ during first bonfire since 2013”, in The Daily Princetonian:

(slang) A sudden expression used while throwing something, especially with force.


fwoom

Squirrel Girl: Well let's go to the friggin' moon.
FWOOM

2015, Ryan North, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, number 2, page 21:

Fwoom! Oliver fired himself down the hall like a human rocket.

2015, Mark H. Kruger, Overtaken, page 358:

The sound of a rocket (or similar) taking off.


wayleggo

(New Zealand) Used by a shepherd to call a sheepdog back to his side.


aiyee

onomatopoeic

Imitative

(Philippines) Expression uttered to tease someone as if he or she is now in a romantic relationship with someone.


ulp

Imitative, or possibly a variant of gulp.

I sent her a text asking as nonchalantly as possible whether cows ever go for you. [...] The answer I got was, 'Occasionally they do, and they can be bloody scary.' Ulp.

2009, Charlie Connelly, And Did Those Feet: Walking through 2000 Years of British and Irish History, London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:

And where would the Grammys be without Motown maverick Stevie Wonder, continuing his slide into musical irrelevance with a mind-boggling collaboration with, ulp, teen idols the Jonas Brothers, who massacred their own "Burnin' Up" and Stevie's "Superstition" with boyish aplomb.

2009 February 10, Joel Rubinoff, “Train wreck keeps rollin’ along”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Star Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-03-12:

Little—ulp—little red horns curving out of his brow. My mouth was totally dry.

2012, Jennifer Stevenson, It’s Raining Angels and Demons (Slacker Demons; book 2), Lancaster, Oh.: Calliope, →ISBN:


oh, the humanity

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Quotation from US broadcaster Herbert Morrison (1905-1989) during his coverage of the Hindenburg disaster.
"This is terrible; this is one of the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world. Oh it's... [unintelligible] its flames... Crashing, oh! oh, four or five hundred feet into the sky, and it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. There's smoke, and there's flames, now, and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity, and all the passengers screaming around here!"


boy howdy

Boy howdy. There was indeed no rest for the wicked.

2005, Mark Alan Norris, Everything and Then Some, →ISBN, page 140:

I greeted Shannon's request enthusiastically, "Boy, howdy!"

2010, Joe Barfield, Formula 2000, the Dream, →ISBN:

"Talk to me, Zaidu. What do you mean?" she asked quietly. "I'm more than a little confused here. I know what's happening in my life." Boy howdy, did she!

2013, Honor James, The Rogue Hunter's Mate, →ISBN, page 60:

“Boy howdy, are you ever. You're on number four but there's no Doppler shift!"

2014, Steven Gould, Exo: A Jumper Novel, →ISBN:

(idiomatic) Expresses strong support or agreement.

"Boy, howdy! Where do you get that stuff, you rummy?"

1918 October 26, George Pattullo, “Places of Dreadful Night”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191, number 17, Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 15:

Boy howdy, boy howdy, boy howdy! I was buried alive in noise, and the heat and cinders stung my neck and legs and the bottoms of my feet.

1992, Hugh Ruppersburg, Georgia Voices: Fiction, →ISBN, page 460:

Boy, howdy, is it cold! This is not Paris, as in "gay Paree," in France.

2002, Carole Marsh, Heroes & Helpers, →ISBN, page 43:

l saw her just a standin' there with her little blue suitcase and l said, 'Boy howdy, would l like to crawl into her pants!'

2004, Will Hancok, All 'Bout Me, an Arkansas Tail, →ISBN, page 171:

If there wasn't a dragging brake beam to rip me down the back, I was go'n make it! Boy howdy, I did some fancy praying.

2007, Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree, →ISBN, page 77:


no excrement, Sherlock

No excrement, Sherlock! I wanted to sneer. But of course I couldn't, so I didn't.

no shit, Sherlock
no shit, Sherlock#English

(rare) Euphemistic form of no shit, Sherlock.


s.a.w.w.

An initialism formed from Arabic صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّم (ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallam).

uder

صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّم

صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّم


chugga

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(childish) The sound made by a steam locomotive in motion.


go soak your head

You're not crazy, just extremely annoying. Go soak your head, jerkwad.

2003 December 16, “Confidentials”, in Weekly World News, page 23:


umph

Alternative form of humph (“sound of doubt or disapproval”)

Alternative form of oof (“sound of loss of air from the body, as when struck”)


bup bup bup

Bup bup bup! Don't go just yet. You forgot something.

An exclamation conveying a meaning equivalent to "wait"!


schlup

They walked to the nearest house, their boots making a schlup, schlup sound as they sank into the mud.

1999, Peg Kehret, The Flood Disaster, page 64:

She looked up to see the bagel, drooping slightly, the cheese, loosening. Then, with a wet, suction-like “schlup”, the bagel fell.

She tugged him in close, as her claws shredded his heart in a blur, and she withdrew her fist with a schlup sound.

A slurping sound, as of walking through sticky mud.


ship ahoy

(nautical) Interjection used to hail another ship or vessel, or to attract attention to the presence of another vessel nearby.

vaixell a la vista

interjection used to hail another ship or vessel, or to attract attention to it


whisky tango foxtrot

whiskey tango foxtrot
whiskey tango foxtrot#English

Alternative spelling of whiskey tango foxtrot


more tea, vicar

As if politely distracting the attention of other guests at a social function.

Somebody belches or farts. Somebody else says, usually primly, 'More tea, Vicar?'.

2004, Mike L, “Re: Doctors' Etiquette”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

As Richard leans over to begin, Edwyn lets rip a mighty fart. “More tea, vicar?” says Richard, deadpan.

2010, Grace Maxwell, Falling & Laughing: The Restoration of Edwyn Collins, page 99:

They shall wear clothes of fine silk, and sit face to face around the table, and comment on the fine weather […] And should you hear a small trumpet in the distance, you will ask: “More tea vicar?” and proffer a cucumber sandwich.

2010, Martin Luther, The 21st Century Enlightenment Koran, page 265:

(humorous) Said after another person burps or breaks wind.


splork

(Internet slang) Expressing amusement, as though one had spat out one's drink while reading something amusing.


no more

The police officer started with another round of questions. “Please, no more. I can't do this anymore.” Janette lay her head down on the kitchen table and cried.


zooks

Zooks! he is a man of great delicacy on these occasions. He is none of those fashionable youngsters, who are apt to take up from every body.

1748, Alain René Le Sage, translated by Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane:

The squire gave him a good curse at his departure; and then turning to the parson, he cried out, "I smoke it: I smoke it. Tom is certainly the father of this bastard. Zooks, parson, you remember how he recommended the veather o' her to me. D—n un, what a sly b—ch 'tis. Ay, ay, as sure as two-pence, Tom is the veather of the bastard."

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


God forfend

(idiomatic, subjunctive, dated) Don't let it be.


out upon

You skie-ſtaring Cocks combes you: you fat braines, out upon you; you are good for nothing but to ſweat night-caps, and make rug-gownes deare: […]

1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, signature K, verso:

Clown: Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts wakes, fairs and bear-baitings.

c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

To be his whore, is witles; Out upon't;

1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii, page 31:

– Out upon you, said I! I cannot bear you.

1741, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 6, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC:

Out upon them! that they should dishonor their own mothers by such teaching.

1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in The White Company:

Out upon you, dark witches of evil!

1919, John Galsworthy, chapter 19, in The Burning Spear:

(archaic) Shame on; away with; curses upon.


game on

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Former high school sweethearts Dawson and Amanda (James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan) say "game on!" after returning to their small town for the funeral of a friend.

2014 August 29, Dann Gire, “Autumn movies get serious and scary with dramas and more”, in Chicago Daily Herald:

“We need others to see this and say, 'Game on,' ” he added. “We need places like Los Angeles, like San Francisco and New York, to step up.”

2015 12/15/2015, Matt Richtel, “San Diego Vows to Move Entirely to Renewable Energy in 20 Years”, in New York Times:

"My response is: game on," he said in an email. "I look forward to deposing all the CEOs, medical directors, and their co-conspirators who participated in Planned Parenthood's illegal baby body parts racket."

2016 January 15, “'Game On' after Planned Parenthood Sues CMP over Undercover Videos”, in Christian Broadcasting Network:

It is game on for the Feb. 13-14 Rotary Derby.

2016 January 24, Bob Washburn, “Hunter's Corner: Chilling out in time to do some ice fishing”, in Concord Monitor:

Expressing eager anticipation of an event or undertaking, especially a competition of some sort.


C`vert`N`gt`K

Using the piping and redirection operators from the Unix command line.

C|N>K
Ahh, that was funny. Do you mind if I quote you there Abby?

1996 February 12, Jared Buntain, “Question for the ladies”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet):

You owe me a new keyboard. Mine's now full of coffee ;-)
(Or in shell script speak: C|N>K)

2001 May 16, Dylan Smith, “Dropping objects from aircraft”, in rec.aviation.student (Usenet):

*spew*
DAMMIT! I know better. This is my *third* C|N>K moment here.
I suppose I should be grateful the coffee was only luke warm.

2002 January 16, Andrew Vendryes, “Happy New Year, folks!”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet):

(Internet slang) Coffee through nose to keyboard: suggesting that the user is laughing hard while reading a posted message.


that tears it

Synonym of that does it (“one has reached the limit of one's patience or temper”)


holy crap on a stick

"I shoved thoughts of Hank the Skank out of my head. Aunt Bel stood by while I wrestled the fifty-pound case off the belt. Holy crap on a stick, Aunt Bel, what do you have in here?."

2015, Elle Casey, Monkey Business: A Paranormal Short Story:


fuck your mother

(vulgar, colloquial) Synonym of fuck you, expression of dismay or discontent.


scheisse

Borrowed from German Scheiße. Doublet of shit.

Oh, scheisse. Talk about some people with idle hands.

2003 January 30, Noelle, “Re: Idle hands: Baby naming poll”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

2003 December 12, Chris, “Holy scheisse”, in alt.music.dave-matthews (Usenet):

Oh, scheisse! And it turned up in the Guardian within the last fortnight, too, IIRC.

2004 July 2, Dr Ivan D. Reid, “Clue that raises a smile”, in rec.puzzles.crosswords (Usenet):

When will they play Chilliwack? Oh scheisse, when will they play Clamwater®?

2004 August 4, Gerry Armstrong, “Re: Moonchild - Parsons & Hubbard Off Off Broadway”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):


jakers

* minced oath from Jaysus. Compare jeepers.

Be jakers, what are they hushing at—and staring at me as if I wor a Roschicrucian.

1838, Charles Dance, “The Irish Lion”, in The Acting National Drama, volume 4, Chapman & Hall, page 75:

O jakers, Jenny, says Joe, how short your shirt is!

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

"Jakers, but we worked." With a long breath she shut her eyes. "But it was too much for one woman and a half-grown girl […]"

2013, Nora Roberts, Irish Thoroughbred, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 25:

(Ireland, colloquial, dated) An expression of surprise or emotion


set phasers to

In reference to the 1960s US television series Star Trek, in which the crew could set their phaser weapons either to stun or to kill.

(humorous) Prepare to; commence (used with a following verb or noun)


prethee

(archaic) Alternative spelling of prithee


KKB

From Tagalog KKB, initialism of kaniya-kaniyang bayad (“going Dutch”, adjective, literally “to each their own payment”).

initialism

(Philippines) Indicates that the cost of a meal together with people is to be shared or split.


mercy me

Mercy me! Look at the state of you!


glory be

(idiomatic, dated) Used to express surprise.


bejaysus

Bejaysus, I wish I didn’t have to go back and face what I have to face but c’est le vie.

2016 March 15, Philip Ryan, quoting Enda Kenny, “Enda Kenny tells Irish embassy in Washington: ‘Bejaysus, I wish I didn’t have to go back and face what I have to face’”, in Irish Independent:


awreet

Pronunciation spelling of all right, representing Scottish and Northern England English.


great Caesar's ghost

Allusion to the play The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar by William Shakespeare, in which Roman emperor Julius Caesar’s ghost appears to Brutus. Used as euphemism in place of good God or similar expressions. Made popular in the 1940s and 1950s by the Superman radio program and comic books as a catchphrase of the character Perry White.

'By the great Caesar's ghost, I believe you! You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever heard of, so help me Moses! The idea of you being a pilot—you! Why, you don't know enough to pilot a cow down a lane.'

1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “A Cub-pilot's Experience”, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC:

Great Caesar's ghost, what is it this?

1936, F. Hugh Herbert, The Case of the Black Cat, spoken by Perry Mason (Ricardo Cortez):

Great Caesar's ghost! Look at this place.

2007 October 1, Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, Robert Cohen, “The Big Bran Hypothesis”, in The Big Bang Theory, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Sheldon (Jim Parsons):

(now often humorous) An exclamation of astonishment; good Lord.

Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (play)
Perry White
Superman
William Shakespeare


huat ah

From Hokkien 發啊／发啊 (hoat--a), from 發／发 (hoat, “to produce, to grow, to develop, to prosper, to pay out”) + 啊 (--a, “particle of exhortation”).

compound

For some strange reasons, some people are shouting "Huat ah" as they toss paper money in the air.

2012 December 24, Albert Tay, “Hungry Ghost Festival in Singapore”, in wordpress.com, retrieved 2016-04-01:

Huat ah! The pronunciation of "eight" in Hokkien (Chinese dialect) sounds similar to "Prosperity". Good luck and may you win the lottery!

2014, Jane Lai, “Yusheng designs”, in pinterest.com, retrieved 2016-04-01:

The lo hei dish eaten by Singaporeans to herald the Chinese New Year with shouts of "Huat ah!” festive greetings exemplifies a Chinese cuisine with local Singaporean identity.

2015, Yongnian Zheng, Liang Fook Lye, Singapore-China Relations, page 224:

(Singapore, Malaysia, informal) A traditional, festive expression used to wish oneself prosperity.


stay classy

Sarcastic response to an action or remark perceived as trashy.


ho, ho, ho

A deep, hearty laugh or chuckle, most associated with Santa Claus.

ሆ ፣ ሆ ፣ ሆ

a laugh or chuckle, most associated with Santa Claus


Geronimo

Alternative letter-case form of geronimo


what's cracking

From crack, in turn from Middle English crak (“loud conversation, bragging talk”).

der

(slang) What’s going on with you? (as a greeting)


hand to God

Hand to God, I was planning on paying by Tuesday.

(idiomatic) Used when admitting something which might not be believed.


stroll on

Barry and Carrie are getting married? Stroll on!

(informal) Expressing surprise or disbelief.


kewl beans

(informal) Alternative spelling of cool beans


chinny reckon

A corruption of ich ne reckon (“I don't reckon [so], I don't think [so]”) or 'ch ne reckon (meaning the same). Arose as an expression in England's West Country.

(UK, slang) An expression of disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard.


of course, my horse

of course my horse
of course my horse#English

Alternative spelling of of course my horse


maaan

Don't gimmie that jive maaan, quit shucken ' me, you must be in love with her!

1974, Red Jordan Arobateau, Jailhouse Stud, page 80:

You got too many words in the world with you now, maaan.

1978, Sterling Watson, Weep No More My Brother: A Novel, page 101:

burn: playing time, as in "I gotta get some burn, maaan."

1997, Jim Crotty, How to Talk American: A Guide to Our Native Tongues, page 148:

I was like, I have to do "Night Nurse"! Ah maaan, that is such a classic.

2004, The Beat, volume 23, number 2, page 43:

We whipped around to Warren Dillard standing in the bedroom doorway. “Hey, Woods, I couldn't find it, maaan. You did say in the fridge, right?"

2014, Harry Clifford Brown, Magic Club: A Novel, page 245:


blood and ashes

Virgil: Right...yes, the name...uh, wait! I remember something! It is written in the scriptures. "The Living One will live again on wings of fire." No wait, I think it says "reborn on wings of fire". Oh, blood and ashes! Why do elves always have to be so damn cryptic? Uh...

2001 August 21, Troika, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, v1.0, Sierra Entertainment, PC, level/area: Crash Site:


shitfire

From shit + fire, possibly a calque of Spanish cacafuego (“braggart”, literally “fireshitter”).

clq

Shitfire! I never thought he'd get the nomination.


Ctrl-Alt-Delete

Key combination of Ctrl, Alt and Delete.

(science fiction, sometimes humorous) Said by a sentient machine to express the desire to kill or destroy something or someone.


thank goddesses

thank the goddesses
thank the goddesses#English


thank Goddesses

Alternative letter-case form of thank goddesses


thank the Goddesses

Alternative letter-case form of thank the goddesses


holy catfish

(idiomatic) Expressing terror, awe, surprise, astonishment, etc.


yikers

Dad cares about Jenna, but yikers! Can you imagine? Thinking they deserve a punch in the face is one thing, but saying it or even remotely suggesting you might follow through with it is a bad idea […]

2010, Erin A. Munroe, When Big Issues Happen to Little Girls:

Yikers, I might be so fired if he figures out I don't have a clue who he is.

2013, Lisa Harper, Overextended and Loving Most of It:


bahala na

(Philippines) Expressing the fatalistic attitude that things are out of one's control and whatever will happen will happen.


blammo

Sure, your child will be able to lift up that napkin and find the phone a few times in a row, but then BLAMMO! As soon as you hide it under a second napkin, the kid will suddenly be as clueless as the day she was born.

2015, Amber Ankowski, Andy Ankowski, Think Like a Baby:


bonjour/hi

[bɒ̃ʊ̯̃.ˈʒʊu̯ʁ haɪ̯]

Such is the alarm about the fragility of French in Quebec that a few years ago the provincial government passed a nonbinding resolution calling for shop attendants to replace “bonjour hi” — a common greeting in bilingual, tourist-friendly Montreal — with just “bonjour.”

2021 October 9, Dan Bilefsky, “French Language Laws Renew Rift With Quebec's English Speakers”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2021-10-09:


let's dance

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let's, dance.


nabocklesh

Can nature men thus reconcile To misrule which doth most beguile? Nabocklesh! how did Tiger home return? Return? quite easy with young

1837, Thomas O. McLoughlin, The Works of Thomas M'Loughlin, page 160:

I feel it borne in upon my heart some way, that that man can't have luck — Nabocklesh !

1851, William Joseph O'Neill Daunt, The gentleman in debt, page 10:

Is it thrue, 'Paddy,' that you wor sint down to Errigle Keerogue to kill the clocks for 'Dan' McMahon? But nabocklesh!

1913, Francis O'Neill, Irish Minstrels and Musicians:

(Ireland) Alternative form of nabocklish


nabocklish

From Irish ná bac leis (don't bother with it).

Nabocklish. Run, Pat, and hurry the car. Sure we're to go round by the gaol to take Macarthy up.

1862, Henry Robert Addison, Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate:

An it's little O'Malley cares for the law—bad luck to it; it's himself can laugh at judge and jury. Arrest him—nabocklish —catch a weasel asleep,” &c.

1879, Harry Lorrequer, Charles O'Malley, the Irish dragoon:

Deuce take them, they should come to spoil our fun ; but if they don't go back quicker than they come, nabocklish.

1881, David Power Conyngham, The O'Donnells of Glen Cottage: A Tale of the Famine Years in Ireland:

"Oh, but Bessy and I are old acquaintances," replied Hugh, laughing. " Nabocklish !" returned Mat.

2002, Charles Joseph Kickham, Knocknagow, or, The homes of Tipperary, page 227:

(Ireland) Don't worry about it; never mind.


ah me

Ah me, ah me! No other ghost has haunted the boy’s room, my friends, since I have occupied it, than the ghost of my own childhood, the ghost of my own innocence, the ghost of my own airy belief.

1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:


aieee

The truth is I didn't really think about any of that, just lunged forward, grabbed the guy's wrist, and clamped down good and tight. “Aieee,” he screamed, or something like that, very unpleasant down deep in my ears.

2013, Spencer Quinn, A Fistful of Collars: A Chet and Bernie Mystery, page 237:


aiee

He caught her as she went past and pulled her around. She threw up her hands and closed her good eye. Aiee, she cried. Aiee.

2010, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain, page 239:


no, thanks

“No, thanks” is a violently British way to refuse something. That is just one step away from “oh, I couldn’t possibly”.

2014 September 14, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Jeff Maurer, Ben Silva, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Seena Vali, Julie Weiner, “Scottish Independence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

(negation of the verb used in the offer) + go raibh maith agat


my aunt Fanny

(slang) nonsense; rubbish (as a scornful dismissal of someone else's remark)


yello

The phone rings a fifth time. Eddie pulls the phone from underneath the driver's seat and places it to his ear. “Yello?” The phone rings again.

Just when it seems she is ready to say something to Max, the phone rings again. This time she reaches quickly for the phone. “Yello?” acting like it is her own personal phone.

The phone rings twice before someone answers. “Yello?” It's Salter's unmistakable irascible voice.

2010, Carl Nichols, The Encounter: A Novel:

An informal greeting, especially when answering the phone


heyo

'Heyo!' he said to himself. 'What's all this going on? Just wait a minute, and I'll find out!'

1948, Enid Blyton, The Brer Rabbit Book:

“Heyo!” He heard a call from the edge of the bluffs and turned to see Jake Simmons angling across the clearing to intercept him. “Hold up a minute, Joe,” Jake called after him.

2009, Charles G. West, The Blackfoot Trail:


ach-y-fi

Ach-y-fi! there's something mean in that marrying again, to my mind. Whatever my faults are, I'd be faithful to the memory of my love.

1906, Anne Adalisa Beynon Puddicombe, “The 'Liliwen'”, in Queen of the Rushes, page 84:

That's what my nurse used to say to me when I was a dirty little girl: 'Ach-y-fi'.

1950, Christianna Brand, Cat & Mouse, page 17:

Misspelling of ych a fi. Due to the conflating of unstressed a with the Welsh vowel y.


d'aww

“D'aww, you're too cute,” Riley says. Tyler responds by pulling Kevin into a dip and kissing him full on.

2015, A. Destiny, Alex R. Kahler, Love Is in the Air, page 122:


d'aw

"Morning, Library Cat! Here's some bacon. D'aw, aren't you cute!"

2016, Alex Howard, Library Cat: The Observations of a Thinking Cat:

(informal) Alternative form of aw (“expressing sentimental affection”)


splunk

Imitative; compare splash, splat, plunk.

A splunk, like a rock hitting water, brought him to a standstill, straining to hear.

2004, Ramona Crawford, Sabrina Says, page 162:

Splunk! Mid-muse, Darcy was startled by a weird noise — something between a splat and a thunk. Pausing in her apple-picking, she looked around. Splunk! There it was again!

Was that the hose? Did they drop it in? Splunk. Something hit the water.

2007, Lois Metzger, Be careful what you wish for:

The sound of something heavy landing in a liquid.


cock on

Cock-on mate well done!

2010 May 31, Aardvark101, “Indy 500 - Conway Crash”, in Photography on the Net:

Cock on mate. These reports are a bit special

2011 November 5, Silent Hill, “Beelitz heilstatten REPORT 4 (honest ) - Chirurgie. IMAGE INTENSIVE!!!”, in Derelict Places:

(UK, informal) Good work; well done; excellent.


aikona

Borrowed from Fanagalo aikona, haikona. Compare Xhosa hayi, kona, Zulu hhayi no.


shyeah

"Shyeah, right," Kitty snorted with a smirk.

2000, Stan Lee, Mike Zeck, X-Men Legends, page 115:

“Shyeah!” the cabbie spat. “They act like they're Christians. They pretend. But they're really al-Qaeda.

2012, Annia Ciezadlo, Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War, page 5:


yallah

(Arab Australian, slang) c'mon, come on, let's go


ecod

“What’s that to you? Ecod!” growled Mr. Cruncher, “it’s you I have got a old grudge again, is it, with your shameful impositions upon tradesmen! I’d catch hold of your throat and choke you for half a guinea.”

1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:


lick my balls

(idiomatic, chiefly US, vulgar, rare) Synonym of suck my balls


wassis

“Wassis? Alligator skin?”' Nussbaum does a Richard Pryor accent. “'No fuckin' class, Whitey!”

2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

(pronunciation spelling, slang) what is this?


good night, sweet prince

From Shakespeare's Hamlet (act V scene ii), in which Horatio utters the line to his dying friend Hamlet.


yoick

Alternative form of yoicks (hunting cry)


blabbity

Blah blah blabbity blah.

A nonsense word, used in the same context as blah, repeated in the same context as blah blah blah, or used to extend blah blah blah.


transform and roll out

Originally a slogan from the Transformers toyline.

(idiomatic, humorous, rare) Let's go, get a move on.


floof

Possibly a deliberate mispronunciation of fluff, a back-formation from floofy, or a blend of fluff + poof (compare the etymology of floofy).

As I [the universe] was saying, I had no idea what to expect before the beginning, so to speak. Perhaps it really went floof, woosh, bang. Or bang, woosh, floof. Or even woosh, floof, bang. You know how permutations go.

1975, Paul West, “The Universe, and other Fictions”, in J[ames] Laughlin, Peter Glassgold, Frederick R. Martin, editors, New Directions in Prose and Poetry 31, New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 107:

floof [MAD #181, March 1976] A word indicating a puff of smoke has appeared, as in a smoke signal: also FLOOF [MAD #181, March 1976] The imaginary sound of a single puff of smoke created with a blanket

[2006, Kevin J. Taylor, editor, KA-BOOM!: A Dictionary of Comic Book Words, Symbols & Onomatopoeia: Comprising Many Hundreds of New Words which Modern Literature, Science & Philosophy have Neglected to Acknowledge as True, Proper & Useful Terms & which have Never before been Published in any Lexicon, Surrey, B.C.: Mora Publications, →ISBN, page 29:

Used to indicate the (supposed) sound of moving air, as in an explosion, a puff of smoke, etc.


Fucken tops weekend!!!!!! Went to this sweet as party in Peppy Grove and I s2g, Patty Chong was there.

2015 August, “The Fresher Diary: Part Five”, in Pelican, volume 86, number 5, University of Western Australia, page 7:

(Internet slang) Abbreviation of swear to god.


brap

onom

Imitative

"BRAP!" It sounded like a large bullfrog announcing his presence. Basically, I felt like I'd dropped five pounds when I broke this major wind.

2003, Ed Williams, Rough as a Cob: More from the Juliette Journals, page 105:

The Exploding Mouse Fart—While trying to hold it in, some gas gets out making a squeak noise, and since relieving yourself a little bit felt so good, you let the rest out in a huge BRAP!

2018, Belly Laugh Fart Jokes for Kids: 350 Hilarious Fart Jokes, Sky Pony Press:


yabba-dabba-doo

“It will open huge, and it will die. That first weekend, half the assholes in America will be running around going, ‘Yabba-dabba-doo.’ But here’s what everyone’s forgotten: The series was never that big.” “Great concept — I’m not sure yet about the execution.”

1994 May 23, William Goldman, “Yabba-dabba-doo”, in New York Magazine, New York Media, page 24:


et tu

Somewhere in the UK, the blond narcissist could be heard sobbing “Et tu, Phil?” Johnson was almost on his own. Still protesting his innocence. Or lying, as we call it.

2023 June 14, John Crace, “Et tu, Phil? Boris runs out of supporters as Rish! runs out of ideas”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

An expression of recognition of betrayal.


bluh

Bluh. I shut the magazine. I knew it was just a silly quiz, but it was annoying that I couldn't even get a crush match in a magazine—or real life.

2011, Julia DeVillers, Jennifer Roy, Take Two:

What do guys think when they come to a party dipped in Axe perfumes? As if girls have nothing to do but behave like honey bees to suck their nectar. Bluh!

2014, Sneha Mehta, Siya Seth Decides to Die:

(colloquial, rare) Expressing disgust or discontent; blah.

Bluh bluh bluh bluh bluh, ” Klaus said, as the three children got out of the taxi and headed toward the peeling white door of Aunt Josephine's house.

2005, Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, page 485:

Thanks for calling blah blah blah bluh blah blah blah where it's a great day to start a new career. My name is Carey. How can I help you on this blah bluh blah blah blah?"

2013, Scott Semegran, The Spectacular Simon Burchwood:

Bluh bluh bluh. Drash spoke again.

2020, Max Vonne, Star Faer: C'artha's Kiss:

When repeated or combined with blah, used to denote tedious talking; blah.


kabam

(onomatopoeia) The sound of a loud explosion; pow, blam, bang.


thank u

(chiefly Internet slang, text messaging, abbreviation) thank you


thank ye so very much

thank you so very much
thank you so very much#English

(rare) Pronunciation spelling of thank you so very much.


tysm

Alternative form: TYSM

So... I fully want what Barry [Keoghan] and Sabrina [Carpenter] have, tysm.

2024 September 17, “Here’s a Rundown on Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan’s ‘Ship”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on 2024-09-26:

thank you so much
thank you so much#English

(Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of thank you so much.


fuck me sideways

(vulgar) Emphatic form of fuck me (used for surprise or frustration).


boom-boom

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

"If he thinks that, he should live in a loony bin." "He already does." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha boom-boom!"

2003 November 28, “Surprise Party” (00:28 from the start), in The Basil Brush Show, season 2, British Broadcasting Corporation:

(British) Used to draw attention to a pun or weak joke.


smell you later

A humorous modification of see you later.

I pulled up to the house about seven or eight / And I yelled to the cabbie ‘Yo homes smell ya later’ / I looked at my kingdom; I was finally there / To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air

1992 September 21, Will Smith, Quincy Jones (lyrics and music), “Yo Home to Bel-Air”, performed by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince:

Todd jumped out of the car as soon as it stopped. "Smell ya later!" he hollered over his shoulder.

1996, Sherry Shahan, Telephone Tag (A Yearling Book), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 16:

"Smell ya later," Scary Mary said to all of us, waddling toward the elevators.

2006, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 72:

Hope that pleases ya. Well, smell ya later, kid and what can I say? It was nice workin' with ya.

2006, Darren Smith, “Da Bitch Gotta Go”, in Shadow’s Bliss: A Novel, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 115:

"Oh, yeah," Faith said. "He agreed. Da bomb." / "Smell ya later," Jason said, raising his hand as he left.

2007, Lynda Sandoval, The Other Sister (Silhouette Special Edition; 1851), New York, N.Y.: Silhouette, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 146:

We're out of here, smell you later, enjoy the toast?

2010, Lindsay Price, “Lies”, in Ten Minute Play Series – All Girls, Crystal Beach, Ont.: Theatrefolk, →ISBN, page 28:

When they were ready to run around the track for the first time, Joey nudged Clive. ‘Smell you later, old man,’ he gibed. ‘Hey, I’m your boss.’ Clive swiped at him and missed as Joey bolted away. ‘Not on the track you’re not,’ Joey said, laughing.

2012, Emma Hannigan, Driving Home for Christmas, Dublin: Hachette, →ISBN; ebook edition, London: Headline Review, 2014, →ISBN:

I took a quick look at Duce. "Well homes, smell you later. We got a party on the cheese wagon!"

2012, Grieving Patriot [pseudonym], “Snitches Get Stitches, Yo”, in Mortal Jigsaw Puzzle, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 85:

(humorous, informal) See you later; goodbye.


go screw yourself

ходи си го начукай

a slightly politer version of "go fuck yourself"


wee woo

“Put on your siren,” SpongeBob told Patrick. […]
Patrick […] whispered, “Wee...woo...wee...woo...wee...woo...”

2005, Mark O'Hare, Various, Terry Collins, Annie Auerbach, Deep-Sea Tales: 6 Salty Sea Stories, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 145:

“Want to hear the siren, boys?” […]
They nodded eagerly.
Wee-woo! Wee-woo! went the siren.

2007, Jessica Scott Kerrin, Joseph Kelly, Martin Bridge: Sound the Alarm!, Kids Can Press Ltd, →ISBN, page 105:


imphm

1931, Dorothy L. Sayers, “Chapter VIII: Gowan”, in The Five Red Herrings, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd:


as you were

Disregard the previous partial command or order and return to the most recent formal command or order.

stehen Sie bequem

tell soldiers they need no longer stand at attention

weitermachen

make soldiers return to previous duty after inspection

standing at attention
stand at attention

Stop standing at attention or don't stand at attention (used when, for instance, an officer enters a barracks room).


agogare

(archaic, US thieves' slang) Be quick! Look out! Beware!


gadso

'Gadso!' said the undertaker: taking Mr. Bumble by the gilt-edged lappel of his official coat; 'that's just the very thing I wanted to speak to you about.