blimey O'Reilly

[1915, Harry S. Miller (lyrics and music), “Blime Me, O’Reilly (You’re Doing Quite Well) [cover title: Blime Me Mr. O’Reilly but You’re Looking Mighty Well]”, New York, N.Y.: The Cadillac Music; Springfield, Mass.; Chicago, Ill.: A. H. Goetting, →OCLC, page 5:

(UK, Ireland) Alternative form of blimey O'Riley


holy Moses

(mildly blasphemous) expression of surprise, outrage, disgust, etc.


damn and blast

(British, mildly blasphemous) Used to express anger.


Holy Mother of God

Holy Mother of God, you've got to go faster than that to get to the top

(blasphemous) Synonym of Mother of God, an expression of surprise, frustration, etc.


damn it

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(mildly vulgar) An expression of surprise, outrage, or frustration.

bon sang

an expression of surprise, outrage, or frustration


Holy Mother

A clipping of Holy Mother of God in reference to Mary, mother of Jesus.

(blasphemous) Synonym of wow, an expression of surprise.

(blasphemous) Synonym of dammit, an expression of disgust or annoyance.


fuck-a-doodle-doo

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(UK, vulgar) Expression of frustration, contempt or boredom.

- I can play 'Don't Look Back in Anger' on guitar.
- Well fuck-a-doodle-doo.

(UK, vulgar) Conveys sarcastic admiration or happiness; whoop-de-doo.


booyakasha

Of unclear origin, although many spurious theories exist. Possibly of Jamaican origin, as an extended form of boo-ya. Intended as a simulation of a shotgun blast and used in hip-hop, e.g. "Keep Their Heads Ringin’" by Dr Dre (1995) and before that by Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. in the late 1980s. "Booyaka" appears in Shabba Ranks's "Ting a Ling". (Popularised by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, whose character Ali G used it during the 1990s and early 2000s. Cohen could also have intended it to be a portmanteau of "boo-ya" and the Hebrew word for "you're welcome, which is בְּבַקָּשָׁה, phonetically "bevakasha."

(slang) Used to express triumph, normally if trying to appear "gangsta".

Ali G
Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.
Dr Dre
Sacha Baron Cohen

Irish language word for thanks of which booyakasha might be a corruption


sodding hell

(UK, Ireland, vulgar, mildly blasphemous) expression of contempt, frustration, etc.


goodness gracious me

goodness gracious
goodness gracious#English

(idiomatic, UK) Alternative form of goodness gracious


good golly

(slang) expression of surprise, etc.; golly


blooming hell

(UK, slang, blasphemous) Synonym of bloody hell


crimenetly

I am not, in any way at all, trying to prevent or say she can't discuss what she wants. Sheesh, and crimenetly! It's an opinion!!

1995 May 9, Donald M. Gooch, “Re: [some] LEFT WINGERS [aren't fond of] THE POPE!”, in bit.listserv.politics (Usenet):

My dad could hit his thumb with a hammer and yelp "Crimenetly!" but it didn't count.

2006 October 5, “Close to Home”, in Indianapolis Monthly, page 70:

(US, slang) Alternative spelling of criminently


kersplat

From ker- + splat; compare kerpow, kerplunk.

The sound of something splattering messily.


my sainted uncle

(UK) An expression of surprise or alarm.


bleeding heck

(UK, slang) minced oath for bleeding hell.


lawks a-mercy

(UK) A minced oath for "Lord have mercy".


bleeding hell

(UK, slang, mildly blasphemous) Synonym of bloody hell


God in heaven

(UK, mildly blasphemous) Expression of alarm or amazement.


no side

(rugby) Called by the referee at the end of a match, as no side has the next possession of the ball.


uh-oh, Spaghetti-O

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Advertising campaign for SpaghettiOs, an American brand of canned spaghetti rings.

"Uh-oh, spaghetti-o!" She retreated a couple of steps. "Guess I'm in for it now."

1987, Ellen Frye, Look under the hawthorn:

Mary clucked, "Uh-oh, spaghetti-o." I raced to the bathroom door, kicked it open . . . and stopped dead in my tracks. Ai, talk about squalid scenes!

2001, John Treadwell Nichols, The voice of the butterfly:

Uh-oh, Spaghetti-ohs. You sunk my battleship. But wait!

2005, Erik Grayson, A mind of summer: post-punk dispatches from a post-structuralist world:

Uh oh, Spaghetti-O. We exchange places. Bobby walks up to the pole, bends over, sets himself, and gets a good grip.


flaming Nora

Synonym of bloody Nora (slightly milder than it).


Lord be praised

Expressing surprised happiness or thankfulness.


jumping Jehoshaphat

By the jumpin' Geehosofat, what a gurl she air sure enuf!

1866, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas (Western), London: Richard Bentley, →ISBN, page 100:

(US, dated) Used to express astonishment


praise the Lord

(UK, mildly blasphemous) Stereotypical exclamation used in mockery of Christianity.


pht

Used to signify mild annoyance or disagreement.


megstie

Eh, megstie ! " cried the woman, laying down the leather- cap and the tied-up parcel, and holding out both her hands in astonishment.

1828, The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith, David Macbeth Moir:

Megstie me, gudeman," cried Mrs Gables, " are ye speaking of ganging o'er to the Whigs ? you that was such a desperate Tory. I'll no alloo't

1832, Blackwood's Magazine, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 649:

(Scotland, obsolete) An expression of surprise.


phht

They don't know anything, and they're always sad, and weep! And faint for no reason, Over nothings ! Phht ! phht ! phht !

1899, Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden:

Phht! he expires under the anaesthetic. What could be easier?

1986, Timothy Findley, The telling of lies:


long time

A shortening of It's been a long time (since […] ).

"Hey, Lewis; long time, man." / "Jack." / They shook hands.

2008, Sadie Jones, The Outcast, page 262:

(idiomatic) Used as part of greeting of two people who have not been in contact for a long time.

canto tempo

used as part of greeting of two people who have not been in contact for a long time

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see long, time.


zark

Coined by English science fiction writer and humorist Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978).


never you mind

(idiomatic) Do not concern yourself with it; it is none of your business.


'sdeath

(archaic, minced oath) Expressing anger or astonishment.


zoiks

Possibly from a shortening of gadzooks. Compare also yoicks.


my giddy aunt

(British, Ireland) An exclamation of astonishment, confusion, despair, etc.: my sainted aunt, my sainted uncle.


Mother of God

Calque of Latin Mater Dei and its descendants in other languages, from the Christian concept of the Trinity whereby Jesus as God the Son is identical to God the Father as the single divinity.

(Christianity) Said in supplication to Mary.

“What a place!” her mother had exclaimed, when they finally arrived after almost a week of driving. “Sensational! Smell that? Eucalyptus trees! Mother of God, I feel a hundred percent better already, I swear it. And a big nice pool for you—two of them, will you look at that. Now how could anybody stay sick in a place like this, I ask you?”

1990, Karen Lawrence, Springs of Living Water, New York, NY: Villard Books, →ISBN, page 47:

(blasphemous) An expression of surprise.

“Mother of God! You should have asked me before you released that old woman. Now I can expect the wrath of hell to fall on my head when I walk through that door!” Tristan exclaimed, nodding at his cabin.

1978 October, Johanna Lindsey, A Pirate's Love, New York, NY: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 51:

(blasphemous) An expression of disgust, annoyance, or disappointment.


faugh

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

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

Faugh! how it stinks! It doth not smell like a Christian.

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

The very scent of the carrion—faugh—reached my nostrils at the distance where we stood.

1900 Mary Harriott Norris (editor), 1823 Walter Scott (author), Quentin Durward, American Book Company, page 24

The orthodox religious world says faugh! to sex. Whereupon we thank [Sigmund] Freud for giving them tit for tat.

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

[…] The thought was a bitter one, and I don't suppose I have ever come closer to saying ‘Faugh!’

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

(dated) An exclamation of contempt, or of disgust, especially for a smell.


whaddayasay

(slang) What do you say? What is your opinion?


wut

(Internet slang, nonstandard, eye dialect) What, both in its standard meaning as an interjection, but especially as a response to an outrageous or unexpected statement. This phrase became increasingly popular in the early 2000s due to internet culture.


to the moon

(cryptocurrencies, slang) An aspirational or rallying call for confidence that the value of a cryptocurrency will greatly increase in the future.


a little bit of bread and no cheese

/ə ˌlɪtl̩ ˈbɪt‿əv ˈbɹɛd‿n̩ nəʊ ˈt͡ʃiːz/

/ə ˈlɪt(ə)l ˈbɪt‿əv ˈbɹɛd‿n̩ noʊ ˈt͡ʃiz/

En-au-a little bit of bread and no cheese.ogg

Onomatopoeic; the bird’s song is thought to resemble the rhythm of the phrase.

The song of the yellow-hammer consists of little more than a monotone, repeated quickly several times, some emphasis being laid on the last note, which is also uttered at greater length. It is almost the only bird whose note is heard in the heat of a summer's day. The cow-boys in some parts of the country have given the following interpretation to the yellow-hammer's song:— "A lit—tle bit of bread, and no cheese."

1839 July 13, “British Birds”, in The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume VIII, number 467, London: Charles Knight & Co., […], →OCLC, page 266, column 1:

In Devonshire it [the yellowhammer] goes by the names of "Little-bread-and-no-cheese," and "Gladdy." Of the latter name I do not know the origin; that of the former is clear enough; for if the words "A little bit of bread and no cheese" be chanted rapidly in one note, descending at the word "cheese," the performance, both in matter and style, will bear a close resemblance to the bird's song.

1862, C[harles] A[lexander] Johns, “The Yellow Hammer. Emberíza citrinella.”, in British Birds in Their Haunts, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; […], →OCLC, page 192:

[A]s twilight sets in, the Yellow Hammer may still be heard, and is perhaps the last bird to give a parting note to the retiring day, with the exception of his congener the Corn-Bunting, who sings till it is quite dusk. Country people imitate the note of the Yellow Hammer by the words, "a little bit of bread and no cheese," the accent on the last word; but sometimes the utterance alters in tone, the request being for a "little bit of bread and no cheese," the last word being dropped and the accent on the penultimate.

1871–1881, H[enry] E[eles] Dresser, “Emberiza citrinella. (Yellow Bunting.)”, in A History of the Birds of Europe, […], volume IV, London: […] [Taylor and Francis for] the author, […], →OCLC, page 4:

[T]he yellowhammer, who also had words as well as tune, sang his refrain of "a little bit of bread and no cheese," with a tremendous emphasis on the no; […]

1875, [Walter Besant, James Rice], chapter VIII, in With Harp and Crown. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 139:

It is delightful to hear the yellowhammer's song—his only song: "A little bit of bread and no c h e e s e."

1896, “the Amateur Angler” [pseudonym; Edward Marston], “Spring and Summer Rambles”, in By Meadow and Stream: Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Places, London: Sampson Law, Marston and Company […], →OCLC, page 38:

There were several sorts of little birds, twittering different songs. The first one sang—“Who’s bin digging-up my nuts? Who’s-been-digging-up my nuts?” And another sang—“Little bita bread and - no - cheese! Little bit - a - bread an’ - no - cheese!”

1911, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, London, New York, N.Y.: Frederick Warne & Co., →OCLC, page 21:

"A little bit of bread and no cheese!" cry the yellowhammers petulantly. But no one takes any notice of them.

1931 May 20, Louis Golding, “A Rosary of Lovely Places”, in The Commonweal: A Weekly Review of Literature, the Arts and Public Affairs, volume XIV, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Calvert Publishing Corporation, →OCLC, page 74, column 1:

The Africans, it seems, have the British countryman's habit of making a phonetically similar sentence out of a bird's call. The yellow-hammer, for instance, is supposed to say "a-little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheese". In Zande, the laughing dove calls urugu nolu akpi akpi, which can be translated as "the planter of eleusine [a local cereal] will die".

1961 January 26, “Notes and Comments: Bird Calls and Beer Drinking in African Language”, in Bernard Dixon, editor, New Scientist, volume 9, number 219, London: IPC Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 197, column 1:

In Europe the song of the Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) can be heard, with a little poetic licence, as ‘a little bit of bread and no cheese’, the Quail (Coturnix coturnix) as ‘wet my lips’.

2015, Nick Baker, “Feathered and Flighty: Birds”, in The Complete Naturalist, London, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Natural History, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 51:

Emberiza citrinella
Emberiza citrinella#English

(British, idiomatic) Used to represent the song of the yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella).


nopers

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sproing

(informal) The sound of a sudden springing or leaping.


marrie

Not by my travels (so God helpe me): marrie, ile bring ye fortie Saylers, will sweare they have seene them.

1609, anonymous author, “Everie Woman In Her Humor”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:


fnar

It's all downhill from here, fnar, fnar, no more horizontal hokey-cokey for you, eh grandad?

1994, Joseph O'Connor, The secret world of the Irish male:

Chase makes fnar fnar jokes about her death being a result of his sexual prowess […]

[…] enjoy the combination of a general easing of discipline (to aid retention) and mixed sex (and I mean that any way you want to take it, fnar fnar).

2006, Damon Hammond, Totally Steaming: A Year on HMS Fearless:

(slang, onomatopoeia) Representing a crude laugh, especially in response to sexual innuendo.


unberufen

From German unberufen (“let it not be called down on me”).

bor

"Unberufen ! " cries Sarah, with a shudder that is not all affectation, " do not mention that accursed name ; I could have sworn that I heard her voice just now !"

" Unberufen !" he cried. "Unberufen!" she echoed. Then their glances met and they laughed...

1904, Ralph Henry Barbour, Kitty of the roses:

Bending over, Ethel turned back the cloth and thumped on the under side of the table. / "Unberufen and Absit omen," she said hastily. "Don't tempt Providence too far, Captain Frazer. …"

1905, Anna Chapin Ray, Hamilton Brock Fuller, On the Firing Line, EBook edition, Project Gutenberg, published 2009:

And I am working so well (unberufen!) with my admirable Secretary; I shouldn't really dare to ask her to join our little caravan...

1920, Percy Lubbock, editor, The Letters of Henry James:

(dated) Touch wood; knock on wood; an injunction to fate that nothing will go wrong.


yeugh

An exclamation of disgust; yech, yuck, ew.


criminetly

"I can't help it. I trust you, Sid. Whatever you want to do, I trust you. I know you wouldn't do anything wrong— with me."
"Criminetly!"
"Are you angry?"
"I thought you'd put out."

1964, Dean Earl Buckingham, Never Save Rome, page 103:

"Criminetly, lady," one of our group said. "At least you could say 'excuse me.'"

1989 October 29, Bob O'Sullivan, “Dubrovnik Donnybrook”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 2013-06-30, page C21:

SVEN. Holy cheesecakes, it's colder than Walt Disney out there.
GUNNER. (Breaking from the kiss.) Oh, criminetly.
BERNICE. Oh, my gosh.

2007, Phil Olson, A Don't Hug Me Christmas Carol, →ISBN, page 85:

(US) Alternative spelling of criminently


begob

I spake to the polis, an' they laff at me, begob.

1894, Arthur Morrison, Martin Hewitt, Investigator:

Two Irishmen, Pat and Mike, were walking along Broadway, and one said to the other, 'Begorrah, the race is not always to the swift,' and the other replied, 'Faith and begob, education is a drawing out, not a putting in.'"

1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:

1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops
So anyhow Terry brought the three pints Joe was standing and begob the sight nearly left my eyes when I saw him land out a quid O, as true as I'm telling you


criminently

Probably formed by infixation of nonsense syllables into criminy.

"Criminently!" Bean's voice rang out so that all the listening room could hear him. "They's baout thutty slant-eyed rats in hyar […]"

1946, Odell Shepard, Holdfast Gaines, page 343:

"Criminently," said Crumley. "Look at the mob."

1985, Ray Bradbury, Death is a Lonely Business, page 198:

I wanta take a look at the stars! JOE [astonished]: At the stars! Criminently! Is that all?

2005, Tennessee Williams, “The Big Game”, in Mister Paradise and other one-act plays, page 101:

(US) An expression of annoyance or surprise


hee-hee

(onomatopoeia) A sound of high-pitched laughter


hh

(Internet slang, text messaging, uncommon) Synonym of hhh (“a sigh; laughter”).


bedad

From by dad, euphemistic form of by God.

Lady O'Dowd is also so attached to it that, she says, if anything were to happen to Mick, bedad she'd come back and marry some of 'em.

1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair:

But as for the party, bedad, it's rotten to the core, and won't stand another session.

"Ah, bedad, ye can finish it yourself--it's too expansive for me!"

1875, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Sketches New and Old:

May I tempt you to a little more filleted lemon sole, miss Dubedat? Yes, do bedad. And she did bedad.


tsk

An exclamation of disapproval, disappointment or discontent.


gn

Alternative form: GN

(text messaging, Internet slang) Abbreviation of good night.


nee-naw

If it had not been preceded by the nee-naw of fire engines it meant that no warning had been given. There would be casualties.

2001, Bernard MacLaverty, The Anatomy School:

Whenever an opponent went down, be it genuine or feigned, the West Ham faithful would simultaneously cry 'Nee-naw, nee-naw, nee-naw, nee-naw', mimicking the sound of an ambulance.

2004, Neil Humphreys, Notes from an Even Smaller Island:

Tom is in rapt communion with his police car, lying on his stomach, pushing it round and round, making nee-naw noises.

(childish, chiefly British) Imitating the sound of a siren on a vehicle used by emergency services.


fainites

(UK) A call for truce used in children's games.


elephant juice

When spoken with no sound, the phrase generates a similar pattern of lip movements to saying "I love you". It was popularised by the 1999 film Elephant Juice.

(rare, slang) Used as a substitute for I love you.


agh

An exclamation of mild horror, disgust or frustration


good gravy

"[…] When I get the teeniest bit upset I say ..."
Crowell finishes the sentence for her: "Good gravy. Good gravy is what you say.
DiNardo brightens. "Right. Good gravy. That's what I say. I wouldn't even say 'shoot.'"

1985 May, “The New Nuns”, in Orange Coast Magazine, page 86:

Used to express surprise or anger without a hint of profanity or blasphemy.

herranjestas

non-profane expression of anger or surprise

wow

surprise or anger without profanity or blasphemy


lawl

Eye dialect spelling of lol as though pronounced as a single word with a drawl.

I saw a lot of vampire flight attendants at the ideal org opening in dc... oh wait... those were sea org uniforms.... lawl

2009, Kat, “if I were to go trick-or-treating as a scientologist, what would my costume look like?”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

(Internet slang) Alternative form of LOL, often used sarcastically.


phoo

onomatopoeic

Imitative

Sai. The devil he has, and yet that's odd enough, for I have heard of the British Constitution, and as a d-d good one too, all over the world. / Far. Phoo, Phoo! Paine knows well enough that we have a Constitution, which has long been the admiration of the world.

1791, Thomas Paine, A dialogue on the Rights of Britons, between a Farmer, a Sailor, and a Manufacturer, 2nd edition:


roflcopter

/ˈɹɒfl̩ˌkɑptɚ/

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From rofl + -copter. Though popularized by the image at roflcopter.com (a website, now defunct) in 2004, the term appears to have enjoyed some use in 2003 and beyond, though seldom.

roflcopter, that's funny stuff!

@Chrysippus
Just got a donkey drunk and I'm now going to get it eat figs. This is pure ROFLCOPTER!
8.12pm, April 30, 207BC

2012, Kelvin MacKenzie, Chas Newkey-Burden, The Twitter History of the World, London: John Blake, →ISBN, page 12:


stand easy

(military) a command to soldiers standing at ease that they may relax further


ayuh

Most likely from the insertion of an empty syllable at the beginning of yeah.

(rustic Maine, Vermont) Yes; an expression of affirmation.

rustic Maine; Vermont; rustic Maine; Vermont


hello yourself, and see how you like it

Probably popularised by its occurrence in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876; see quotation).

Tom hailed the romantic outcast: “Hello, Huckleberry!” “Hello yourself, and see how you like it.”

1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VI, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 64:

(humorous) A response to being greeted with "hello".


darnation

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


I'd say

I'm no doctor, but I'd say he needs an ambulance.

(idiomatic) It is my estimate or opinion.


tschk

His face was blank with wonder. "So it stands up against a wall his wife?" He shook his head slowly and kept shaking it. "Tschk, tschk, tschk, tschk! His wife! And from this a human being makes a living!"

1953, William Lindsay Gresham, Monster midway: an uninhibited look at the glittering world of the carny:

A show-down came when the unidentified chief of an unidentified mission brought in a young and distant relative to receive for him at a function—over the heads of other wives within the mission. This caused many an indignant 'tschk! tschk!'

2005, Frances Spalding Copeland, Mrs. Copeland's Guest Book:


meep

onomatopoeia

Imitative

"Meep, meep, meep!" echoed his brothers and sisters. They all felt pleased with themselves for having learnt to call their mother …

???, Viktor Astafyev, Meep the Baby Martin, published in Soviet Literature: Issues 7-12 in 1983

"We gave him three nervous breakdowns, you know," he says, waving his fingers in the rear view.
"Listen, I..."
"I've heard this kind of thing before. The English think the French are little blind dogs. Meep meep meep meep meep," he says, performing a talking pantomime with his hand.

2006, Dave Bidini, The Five Hole Stories, page 62:

'Granny, your hat squeaked,' said Tiffany. 'It went meep!'
'No it didn’t,' Granny said sharply.
'It did, you know,' said Nanny Ogg. 'I heard it, too.'
Granny Weatherwax grunted and pulled off her hat. The white kitten, curled around her tight bun of hair, blinked in the light.

2006, Sir Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith; Corgi edition, published in 2007, page 222

imitating a small animal's cry, particularly a kitten or small bird

imitating a small vehicle's high pitched horn

See Thesaurus:wow

(informal) expressing surprise, dismay, fear, or concern


yas

'Oh! yas, I smokes; but I durned sight d'ruther chaw.'

1862, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862:

"Yas, yas!" they cried, with broader grins and many nods.

1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 175:

It's nice, yas, and it's paid for.

1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass:

(often African-American Vernacular, LGBT or valley girl, slang) Nonstandard spelling of yes.

often African-American Vernacular; LGBT or valley girl; often African-American Vernacular; LGBT or valley girl


for mercy's sake

(idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic) An especially mild oath.


yipes

Yipes! she exclaimed suddenly. I forgot to take the ice cream out of the freezer to soften it!

2003, Diane Muldrow, Barbara Pollak, Sweet-and-sour summer:

Their clothes were mostly uninteresting and unflattering. Her eyes lingered on a putrid floral number in fuchsia, hot pink, and turquoise. Yipes.


hooyah

(US, military) Official battle yell of the US Navy.


goodness gracious

/ˈɡʊdnɪs ˌɡɹeɪʃəs/

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!

1957, Otis Blackwell, Jack Hammer, Great Balls of Fire:

(idiomatic, euphemistic, dated) Expressing great surprise.


holy fuck

Will cash my lucky stars on the bank. Holy Fuck — it sags. It cracks."

1967, Harvard University, Harvard advocate, Volumes 101-102, page 7:

(idiomatic, vulgar slang) Expression of terror, awe, surprise, shock, etc.


Jesus, Mary and Joseph

From origins in prayer, reciting the names of Jesus and his saints and calling to them for intercession.

"Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The man ran you down?"

2013, Jack O' Keefe, Survivors of the Irish Great Hunger, 1845–1850, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 8:

(idiomatic) Expletive, used to add emphasis, particularly by Catholics.


good gracious

"Good gracious no, I hope not!"

1865, Charles Dickens, Our mutual friend, Volume 1:

The Silver Shoes took but three steps, and then she stopped so suddenly that she rolled over upon the grass several times before she knew where she was.
At length, however, she sat up and looked about her.
"Good gracious!" she cried.

1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:

(idiomatic, euphemistic, dated) Oh my God; expression of surprise.


get outta here

Get outta here! I'm trying to read!

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

Pronunciation spelling of get out of here.

A: I just got a date with Cindy.

B: Get outta here!

(idiomatic, colloquial) Indicating disbelief or requesting confirmation.

really?

indicating disbelief or requesting confirmation


well, well, well

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Well, well, well. What have we here?

Well, well, well. Look who's back. And they said we'd never see him again.

“Well, well, well!” said Umbridge, looking triumphant. “Little Miss Question-All is going to give us some answers! Come on then, girl, come on!”

2003, J. K. Rowling, chapter 32, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:

Indicating pondering or consideration, often with sarcasm or mock surprise.


oh my goodness gracious

"Oh, my goodness gracious! who'd have thought it? Oh, my soul and body!" exclaimed Ben, dropping the cover, and jumping up with a perfectly absurd look of ...

1861, Henry Mills Alden, “The Debatable Baby”, in Harper's new monthly magazine, volume 22, number 132, page 776:

Oh, my goodness gracious me! where was I? Where was Robert? To happen to me, a sort of prudish old maid, who kept her house so strict!

1865, “Patty Resumes Her Vocation”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, A Weekly Journal, volumes 13-14, page 551:

(idiomatic, euphemistic, dated) Oh my God.


just wondering

From the phrase I was — or we were — just wondering.

(informal) Used to qualify a question or action, explaining it as motivated by curiosity.


dad burn

1918, Stars and Stripes (taken from the Pittsburgh Post),
By, by gum, we'll lick the kaiser when the sergeants teach us how, for, dad burn it, he's the reason that we're in the army now!


atta girl

(idiomatic, colloquial) Alternative spelling of attagirl


yessiree

(informal) A more enthusiastic way of saying yes.


eurgh

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Similar to the sound of someone vomiting.

"Eurgh! Spiders ^([sic]) webs! That's even worse!" said Michael disgusted at the thought,

2007, Michelle Gannon Publishing, Michelle Gannon, Woll the Wizard of Love and Laughter:


whoopsy

From whoops + -y.
(1) Shortening of whoops-a-daisy which in turn is a mispronunciation of upsadaisy.


ptui

Imitative But there is also the Ancient Greek πτύω, to spit, which is in Mark 7:33.

onomatopoeic

Imitative

I wake up and spit three times against the evil eye. Ptui, ptui, ptui. A dream. And fall asleep.

1974, Irving Howe, Eliezer Greenberg, Yiddish stories, old and new:

She would go 'Ptui! Ptui! Ptui!' and seem to reinforce her curses (in a language as colourful as that of the boys') by stamping on her own spittle.

1991, Anne Siew Kim Lim, Face to face: the street children of Bukit Ho Swee:


FO

(Internet slang, text messaging, vulgar) Initialism of fuck off.


hats off

Soh! ſtand clear gentlemen.—Novv you knovv there vvill be a cry of dovvn!—dovvn!—hats off! ſilence!—Then up curtain,—and let us ſee vvhat our painters have done for us.

1781, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic: Or A Tragedy Rehearsed […], London: […] T[homas] Becket, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 51:

"Hats off to the King!" shouted the Captain of the King's Own Guards.

1938 September 1, Dr. Seuss [pseudonym; Theodor Seuss Geisel], The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, New York, N.Y.: Vanguard Press, →OCLC:

(dated) Used as an instruction for people to remove their hats out of respect, generally towards someone of importance.

nosta hattua

used as an instruction for people to remove their hats out of respect

Hats off to the Jamaican bobsled team for their able representation of their country in the Olympics against serious obstacles.

Hats off to Avanti West Coast staff at Crewe station, who found a simple but highly effective way to raise money for charity during the Coronavirus epidemic.

2020 December 6, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 71:

(figurative) Followed by to: used to express approval or praise: congratulations, kudos, well done!

klobouk dolů

used to express approval or praise — see also congratulations, well done


yeah, no

(emphatic, colloquial, especially Australia, New Zealand and California) Used sarcastically to answer "no" to a question where the negative answer should have been obvious.

"Look at those clouds; it might rain." "Yeah, no, the weatherman says it won't rain until at least next week."

(colloquial, chiefly Upper Midwestern US) A softened negative response to a question or statement that seems plausible but is not factual.

an agreement; the “yeah” functions as affirmation, while the “no” could be replaced by the phrase “don’t worry.”


Jesus wept

Calque of Ancient Greek ἐδάκρυσεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς (edákrusen ho Iēsoûs), from John 11:35 in the Bible. See Jesus wept on Wikipedia.

cal

ἐδάκρυσεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς

"Oh, Ennis, oh God Almighty, Ennis. What's the hell's got into you these last few weeks? Oh, Jesus wept, what am I going to do with you?" Major Muir wrung his hands.

1965, Anthony Burgess, A vision of battlements:


rightio

"Rightio!" said the strong man in a soldier's bark. "Everybody's good for a penny. Right. Now, I'll give you two tricks that are worth a performance...

1957, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 199, Making of America Project:

"What'll it be."
"Scotch for me Smith."
"Two scotch."
"Rightio."

1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 173:


oh, well

It was not until he heard a ring at the bell that he wondered how he should address her. Countess? That would seem like rubbing it in. Oh, well, it wasn't really necessary to call people anything, if one used a little management.

1912 July, Henry Kitchell Webster, “The Ingredients”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume CX, number 1, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, […], →OCLC, page 21:

The meager X-ray facts are woefully inadequate and there is nothing upon modern roentgen-cardiography. And this book comes out of Boston where Holmes and George practice the art of roentgenology? Oh, well—Prophets without honor, etc.

1924 November, “Physical Diagnosis by Richard C. Cabot, M.D., Professor of Medicine in Harvard University, Formerly Chief of the West Medical Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Eighth Edition, Revised and Enlarged with Six Plates and 279 Figures in the Text. New York, William Wood and Company, MDCCCCXXIII. Price, $5.00. [book review]”, in The Medical Herald and Physiotherapist: Incorporating The Medical Fortnightly & Laboratory News, St. Louis Clinique, General Practitioner and The Kansas City Medical Index-Lancet, volume XLIII, number 11, Kansas City, Mo.: Medical Herald Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 265, column 2:

Hello? Hello? Is that zoo? … Well, nobody's talking baby talk. Well, I'm the man that called up about the leopard. You don't have to do anything about it. It's all been a mistake. Yes. Uh … Oh, well, stop them.

1938 (film premiere), 1988 (book), Howard Hawks (director), [Hagar Wilde (screenwriter)], “Bringing Up Baby: The Continuity Script”, in Gerald Mast, editor, Bringing Up Baby (Rutgers Films in Print; 10), New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 138:


ba-dum ching

Imitating a drum roll and cymbal crash played as a comic sting.

She gave it a little spin as it came off her right arm, then sent it flying. It landed on his head with aplomb, and she laughed. "Ba-dum, ching!"

Boy, it looks like the average Viagra consumer has some stiff competition. (ba-dum ching!)

2006, Mark Mulvey, Where There's a Will, There's Away... Messages:

...a painfully obvious joke that, in modern performance, is punctuated by a ba-dum ching! drum roll and cymbal crash to coincide with the collective groan of the audience.

2009, Michael Fontaine, Funny Words in Plautine Comedy:

(humorous) Used to underscore or acknowledge a joke.


just a minute

Miss Girzie at these words started up, and said, "Sir, sir, just a minute."
"I can hear no more," cried I; "it is plain you intend to make a bargain with my friend...

1827, John Galt, The last of the lairds: or, The life and opinions of Malachi Mailings ..., page 221:

(idiomatic) Stop; wait; hold on. Used to interrupt speech or proceedings so that one can make a comment or query.


Lordy

From Lord + -y. Nineteenth century, originally U.S.

Lordy! Where's he off to now?

Aunt Betty graciously permitted this. She always did; but if the forgetful old man wandered for a moment away from his theme she brought him back with a surreptitious: “Lordy! yo' ole head done filled wid me yit."

1889 July 11, Herbert Tidd Bradley, “Fo' He am de Lord of de blue and de gray”, in America: A Journal for Americans, volume 2, page 453:

“I said, ‘Lordy, we have to put tops on bottoms. Let’s get something done,’ ” Comey recalled.

2011 July 18, John Cassidy, quoting James Comey, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:

Expressing mild emotion, such as exasperation or frustration.

Lordy! Call your dogs off, call your dogs off! Oh! Lordy! call em off quick! quick!

1863 March, “A horrible scrape”, in The Southern Literary Messenger, volume 37, page 172:

It can only be AC/DC: black black black! with the first single from their first new album in eight years, Black Ice. It's blues-metal heaviosity in exelcis^([sic]). Not clever but, oh lordy, it's big.

2008 September 14, Craig McLean, “Rock review: AC/DC, Rock 'n' Roll Train”, in The Observer:

Expressing strong emotion, such as amazement.


OMW

(Internet slang) Initialism of oh my word.

(Internet slang) Initialism of on my way.


just a second

"...hang it! Just outside the room — just a second! or up in a corner will do."

1860, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a week, Volume 3, page 366:

(idiomatic) Stop; wait. Used to indicate that the speaker wishes the previous speaker or the proceedings to stop so that he or she can comment on what has been said or has happened so far.


shitfuck

Shitfuck!

(vulgar, colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent.


wayment

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Contraction, especially reflective of a common African American Vernacular English pronunciation. Spelling very unlikely to have been influenced by Etymology 1.

“Wayment. Hold up.” Christophe stopped drawing. “What the hell, Nicco? That's not a book.”
“And 'wayment' is a word?” questioned Ramsey, chuckling at Christophe's pronunciation of “wait a minute.”

2018, Genevive Chamblee, Out of the Penalty Box:

2019 Jade Boren, Halle Berry & Lena Waithe Share A Passionate Kiss On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Hollywood Life, 23 May 2019. Accessed 29 May 2019.
“Wayment! she know you gotta girl??? I’m ready to fight!!!!!! Halle who!???” Ericka commented, referring to film production executive Alana Mayo, who became engaged to Lena during Thanksgiving in 2017.

(slang, nonstandard, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Wait a minute.


zoop

"Let me show you how this damn stuff explodes in pure oxygen," Johnson said, and turned on the projector. Markley was "totally aghast" himself. "It just went ZOOP! It was unbelievable. The stuff burned like you couldn't imagine."

1989, Charles A. Murray, Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo, the race to the moon, page 223:

On the day they play the Wild Things for the City Cup, he dons his gear (pulling on his underwear with a "zap" and his socks with a "zoop") and heads for the field.

1999, School Library Journal, volume 45, numbers 1-6, page 180:

And a bit more manly (or womanly) turn of a long tripod screw in a shallow tripod socket and, zoop, through the socket end goes the tripod screw, right into the camera works. And this can also happen with inadequate metal tripod sockets […]

She'd tell me about one guy she'd kind of strung along without really meaning to, and zoop! Some of the glamour I'd been seeing in her would just vanish. Then she started in on the next one and again—zoop! Smaller still!

2010, Carolyn Godschild Miller, Soulmates:

(colloquial) Sound effect suggesting rapid motion.


bollocks more like

2000, Danny McNeil, “DC @ £100 - bollocks more like”, in uk.games.video.dreamcast (Usenet):

"Bollocks more like," returned Smith. He was loving the moment, revelling in getting the upper hand.


tough cookies

(idiomatic, informal) Too bad (for one); the outcome that one desires is not likely to change.


snikt

[Wolverine:] It seems you didn't get my meaning, friend.
[Wolverine:] This is still a free country, isn't it?
[sound effect:] SNIKT!

1975 May, Len Wein (writer), Dave Cockrum (illustrator), John Costanza (letterer), “Second Genesis!”, in Giant-Size X-Men, number 1, page 8:

Hasbro kicks off the convention with a snikt!

2009 February 15, Scott Collura, “Toy Fair 09: Wolverine, Iron Man, and Spectacular Spidey”, in IGN:

However, there’s a lot more to this grisly Canuck’s story than just the “snikt” sound effect.

2018 July 25, Peyton Hinckle, “Snikt To The Man: All Of Wolverine’s Abilities, Officially Ranked”, in CBR.com:

(onomatopoeia, fandom slang) The sound of Wolverine's claws emerging.


fairy snuff

/ˌfɛəɹɪˈsnʌf/

Humorous alteration due to the homeophony of fair enough (fâ'rĭnŭfʹ) and fairy snuff (fâ'rĭsnŭfʹ).

An impeccable Cockney rhyme, though it may offend purists of speech, is burnt cinders ‘windows’; whilst fairy snuff ‘fair enough’ is certainly a true rhyme despite its extra s.

1981, Peter Wright, Cockney Dialect and Slang, Batsford, →ISBN, page 99, →ISBN:

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(originally Cockney rhyming slang) fair enough


furry muff

Humorous alteration due to the homeophony of fair enough and furry muff.


diddums

Contraction of did 'em (they) do something (to you)?.

(UK) A term of commiseration to a child who has suffered a mildly painful situation.

(by extension) A sarcastic commiseration to somebody seen to be complaining too much about hurt feelings.


fair go

Fair go mum! Let me go to the party tonight!

‘Fair go, mate,’ protested Al, as the man dropped to his knees and attempted to pull the sturdy army-issue boots from the private′s feet.
George, catching on, directed Al′s gaze to a row of neatly stacked shoes and Aloysius begrudgingly relented.

2010, Colin McLaren, Sunflower: A Tale of Love, War and Intrigue, page 62:

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) Used in protest to implore or demand that someone act with more fairness or reason, or desist in something considered outrageous.


end quote

Used in speech to indicate the end of a quotation.


suck my balls

(idiomatic, chiefly US, vulgar) An irreverent rebuke or dismissal.


nee nor

(childish, chiefly British) a representation of the sound of a siren


ooer

(UK) Said to acknowledge a double entendre or something that sounds sexually suggestive.


oo-er

Oo-er, how peculiar.

(UK) An expression of surprise or befuddlement.

So, I went around the back with her...

Oo-er!

(UK) Said to acknowledge a double entendre or innuendo.


here we go again

(idiomatic) An expression of frustration upon seeing or hearing something bad repeated.

又來了

expression of frustration upon something bad repeated


ergh

“Ergh,” said Nesta, smelling the cup. “How can you drink that stuff? It smells like washing-up water.”


here we go

(*groans frustratedly*) Yeah, here we go… ’Top Israeli generals approve Lebanon offensive battle plans, army says’. Cool, cool, cool; cool cool cool.

2024 June 19, Vaush, 02:30 from the start, in IDF GENERALS APPROVE PLAN TO INVADE LEBANON, spoken by Vaush (Ian Kochinski):

Said when something is starting to happen.

(sarcastic) An expression of frustration upon seeing or hearing something bad repeated.


down with

Down with the government!

The fugitives passed by his horse, through the group of the generals, through the foot guards, on the way towards Sedan with the cry, "Everyone for himself! All is lost! All is finished! Down with the Emperor — down with the generals who have betrayed us! On, on!"

1877, Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, volumes 145-146, page 273:

Expressing disapproval of or encouraging actions against a person, organization, practice, belief, etc., typically in a public protest.

يسقط

expressing disapproval of or encouraging actions against


suck it

I got the promotion, and you didn't, so suck it.

(idiomatic, dismissal) Used to taunt or deny sympathy for a listener's misfortune.


och aye the noo

A stereotypical phrase said in mock imitation of Scottish people.


och aye

(Scotland) yes, OK; used to state agreement


hey up

From high up as a warning. Written heigh up by Joseph Wright in the English Dialect Dictionary. Always pronounced with the diphthong ɛɪ as was formerly used in high in these dialects. Never pronounced /e:/ as used in hay.

(Northern England, informal) A greeting.


ayup

(New England) Alternative spelling of ayuh


sweet mother of Jesus

Used to express surprise, disappointment or anger.


phut

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

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

Then she heard the phut-phut-phut of an unfamiliar boat engine.

2007, Susan Gates, Beyond the Billboard:

A representation of the sound resembling the release of a blast of steam or exhaust gas; a representation of the sound of a fast but small puff of wind.


SMH

Initialism of shaking my head (used to convey disapproval).

Hamlet: SMH. Who is going to be BURIED here?

2015, William Shakespeare, Courtney Carbone, srsly Hamlet, Random House, →ISBN:

Initialism of scratching my head (used to convey confusion or incredulity).

(usually hyperbolic) Initialism of so much hate.


aagh

An exclamation of horror, disgust or frustration


nuh

From Middle English na, from Old English nā.


congratz

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fuckshit

→ Tagalog: pakshet

From fuck + shit, dysphemistically modeled after bullshit, horseshit, etc.


dayee

“Good day ′Un!” he said to the yardman.
“Day-ee, Jasper!” replied 'Un. “Day-ee, Silas! How′s things?”

1955, Arthur William Upfield, Cake in the Hat Box, page 4:

(Australia, dated) An ellipsis of good day.


fuck yeah

Do I wanna go snowboarding with you this weekend? Fuck yeah!

Fuck yeah! I just scored front-row tickets to the concert!

Honestly, the pivot from “fuck yeah!” (Daenerys laying waste to the Iron Fleet, then blasting the front gate of the city open from the inside, demolishing the lion’s share of the Golden Company in the process) to “Oh, dear god, no” (Dany and Grey Worm laying waste to everything after) was as solid a rug pull as could be hoped for.

2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-05-15:

(slang, vulgar) An exclamation used to express agreement, joy, satisfaction, etc.


glhf

(Internet slang, video games) Initialism of good luck, have fun.


you go, girl

You've made it this far not because you're Michael Jackson's sister, but because you're Janet Jackson; a woman who knows where she wants to go and what bus to take. You go, girl!

1993 November, Ebony, volume 49, number 1, page 16:

"You go, girl!" has become a sort of affirmation anthem for African American women. Elaine Lee takes it back to its literal roots, imploring her sisters (whom she laments as having been "reluctant travelers far too long") to hit the road and see the world.

1997, Pathfinders Travel: The Travel Magazine for People of Color:

You go, girl! Your life is an open road.

1999, Cameron Tuttle, The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road, page 7:

(informal) An expression of encouragement, chiefly for a girl or woman.


hollo

And then to Apollo hollo, trees, hollo.

1609, “Everie Woman In Her Humor”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:

Presently up came the clerk; and when he saw his master, the parson, running after the three girls, he was greatly surprised, and said, "Hollo! hollo! your reverence! whither so fast!

1922, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories:

‘Hollo!’ he cried. ‘The blind’s down!’ I had noticed, when we were outside, that the blind was down at the front room window.

(UK, dated) hello (expressing puzzlement or discovery)


thwok

The rock in my hand made a hearty thwok when it hit the meat of the tree.

1996, Alaska quarterly review, Volume 15:

Thwok! The ball was past the man before he'd even begun to swing.

There was an irregular thwok-thwok from below, and balls sailed into sight and on into the far metal netting where they gave a faint rattle and plop...

2006, John Shannon, The Dark Streets: A Jack Liffey Mystery:


thock

Despite the construction of muffling sheds and sound barriers, the report has continued largely without interruption — thock, thock, thock-thock, thock.

2007 April 7, Andy Newman, “City Islanders Ponder Future Without Gunfire Across Bay”, in New York Times:

A clear, echoing thud, as of an axe chopping wood.


thankyouverymuch

American Express will do nicely, thankyouverymuch.

1987, Geoff Crowther, East Africa: a travel survival kit:

Changing a spark plug was easier than building a computer – which she had done, thankyouverymuch – or even just making a really good risotto.

2007, Lucy A. Snyder, Installing Linux on a Dead Badger:

Dress pants (pleated, thankyouverymuch) with a hole in the back pocket? Sure thing.

2008, Cara Freie, I Love Ranch Dressing: And Other Stuff White Midwesterners Like:

thank you very much
thank you very much#English

(chiefly humorous, sarcastic) Alternative form of thank you very much


lackaday

Univerbation with apheresis from the interjection "alack the day".

(dated) An expression of regret or grief.


tuah

onomatopoeic

Imitative


ptooie

Alternative form of ptui (“sound of spitting”)


ptooey

Then suddenly the men were jarred by a discordant ptooey-splat! Soot had missed his shot, and hit the already juice-blackened wall behind the spittoon.


eigh

"Eigh?" said Kemp, with his mouth open. "Keep your nerve," said the Voice. "I'm an Invisible Man."

1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 55:

"Eigh, eigh! he's killed me!" Mr. Utley shrieked. But none of the students made a move out of their seats.


Jayzus

Dec wiped tears from his eyes at one point and asked me, 'Jayzus, Is, what are you on?'


bismillah

Finally, the boy told the king that he would succeed only if he gathered all his citizens as witnesses, declared bismillah rab al-gholam—“in the name of Allah, the God of this boy”—and fired an arrow.

2013 September 20, Peter Hessler, “Keeping The Faith”, in The New Yorker:

Alternative letter-case form of Bismillah.


whaddayathink

(slang) Contraction of what do you think?. What is your opinion?


whoopdee doo

(colloquial, sarcastic) Alternative form of whoop-de-doo


faw

"It's a complicated thing, though, isn't it." "Faw!" Churchill said.

1972, John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, page 36:

“If you'd carry a camera around your neck and walk fifty feet ahead of me, nobody would know we were together.”
“Faw,” he said. “And tush.”

2013, John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence:


diam

Borrowed from Malay diam (“quiet”, adjective) or Hokkien 恬 (tiām, “silent”) or Teochew 恬 (diam⁷, “silent”).

Diam lah, you have no gal let alone have a son or daughter.

2021 April 8, intruder, “God so loved the world”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

If the answer is affirmative, then he is qualified to talk to us. Otherwise, diam lah.

2023 December 9, “Najib wants more time for another run.”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

So diam lah, baruah bangsat!

2013 June 7, <par@tmnet.net.my>, “Mooted online media control 'not politically motivated'”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

(informal, Singapore, chiefly Malaysia) Be quiet.


pillaloo

Of Irish origin; originally began as a hunting cry.

Oh, pillaloo! why should ye go, my boy, and lave all the good atin and drinkin?

1837 Benson Hill, "the Irish Howl," Gentleman's magazine, Volume 1, Chas. Alexander, p183

“Och, but its kilt and smashed intirely they are,” returned Larry, as he stumbled over the shattered remains of a corpse; “och hone – och hone – pillaloo, pillaloo!”

1839, Matthew Henry Barker, Hamilton King; or, The smuggler and the dwarf, by the Old Sailor,, page 196:

1857 Henry Murray, Lands of the Slave and the Free
The dialogue was brought to a sudden stop by the frantic yell of the juvenile pledge of their affections, whose years had not yet reached two figures; a compact little iron-bound box had fallen on his toe, and the poor little urchin’s pilliloo, pilliloo, was pitiful.

An’ the wust was, that what wi’ the rumpus an’ her singin’ out “Pillaloo!” an’ how the devil was amongst mun, havin’ great wrath, the Lawyer’s sarmon about a “wecked an’ ’dulterous generation seekin’ arter a sign” was clean sp’iled.

1888 Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Astonishing History of Troy Town, p107


point taken

Indicates comprehension on the part of the speaker regarding a specific observation or objection raised by another.


for the love of Mike

"[…] But the police have an idea that I committed—" / "What—for the love of Mike?" / "Murder!" / "Good heavens!" / "And that isn't all, Bob. They've a couple of bakers' dozens of witnesses, all cocked and primed to swear to it!"

1921 April 16, Achmed Abdullah, “Framed at the Benefactor’s Club”, in Detective Story Magazine; republished in Fear and Other Stories from the Pulps, [Holicong, Pa.?]: Wildside Press, 2005, →ISBN, chapter IV (In His Pocket), page 104:

"Ted, you listen to Mr. Thompson!" said Howard Littlefield. "Oh, for the love o' Mike, I am listening!" Ted shouted.

"For the love of Mike! What did you pay?" "Ten thousand francs apiece." "But, Irma, that's preposterous! He never got half that for a painting in all his life."


steady on

- I'm never going back to that restaurant!
- Steady on! They only brought you the wrong drink.

Indicates a need not to exaggerate or be excessive


what in the world

Well, what in the world / Women in black / Don't you remember? / Send us back

1983, R.E.M. (lyrics and music), “Just a Touch”, in Lifes Rich Paegent:


le sigh

Used by Pepé Le Pew, stereotypically French skunk character in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons; combination of French le (“the”) and English sigh.

I would also fly business class instead of in the cattle section.. *le sigh* I hate those small seats. Even though I lost weight, I swear the "economy" section of the plane has been getting smaller and smaller.

2000, Austin Creations, “What if?”, in alt.crafts.professional (Usenet):

“Yeah, Scott. He is so frickin' cute. I could totally lick ice cream from those dimples. And those blue eyes… Le sigh.”

2014, Karen Templeton, Santa's Playbook, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 37:

(informal, humorous) A sigh of longing or disappointment.

Looney Tunes
Merrie Melodies
Pepé Le Pew


bewdy

I scored us a couple of tickets to the match on Saturday. — Bewdy, mate!

The young woman gave them the fingers up and walked back disdainfully, ignoring their whistles and shouts of, ‘Bewdy, you showed him.’

1993, Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 124:

“Bewdy!” said Hugh, as he turned away to get his breakfast.

2009, Howard Young, Searching the Crocodile Coast: Sequel to Crocodile Coast Crash, page 6:

‘Listen, I′ll give it some thought,’ I said. ‘I′ll come back to you tomorrow, okay?’ I was being polite.
‘Tomorrow? Bewdy,’ said Mallon.

2011, Bruce Guthrie, Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court, page 123:

(Australia, informal) Used to express enthusiasm, pleasure or approval.


shink

The shink of a blade drawn from its scabbard rent the air. The dim light of a wall torch flashed upon the steel. With a lunge in tierce, Riccoboni slashed at the small man by his side. Pasquale groped clumsily at his waist for his own sword[…]

2010, Donna Russo Morin, The Secret of the Glass, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 301:

The men-at-arms knocked their visors down with the edges of their shields, a multiple metallic shink-shink sound, transformed from men to steel figures[…]

2016 September 6, S. M. Stirling, The Desert and the Blade, Penguin, →ISBN, page 218:

Shink...Shink! The sword is drawn across the stone. The right angle, the right speed, and the right amount times ... blade from becoming dull, but.

2022 November 18, Garrett Driggers, Tales of Teras: Adequate Abandonment, Garrett Driggers, →ISBN:

SHINK. SHINK. My sword blade slid smoothly against the whetstone. I lifted the blade and tested the sharpness before dripping more water on the stone and repeating the motions.

2023 April 18, Shannon Pemrick, Valkyrie Renewed, Shannon Pemrick, →ISBN:

The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc).

SHINK! Maraki's sword impales the demon from behind.

2008 03, Christopher Clarke-Milton, Dawn of the Messiah Book1, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 190:

Knocked off balance from Bell's charge, the cleaver was useless in defense. SHINK! The knife buried itself into the Minotaur's right hand, cutting flesh, bone and tendons alike.

2015 August 18, Fujino Omori, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Vol. 3 (light novel), Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:

[…] blades pop from its exterior. Shink! Shink! Shink, shink, shink! Dozens, hundreds, gleaming bright—just like the ones inside, only, these are coming for me. Like helicopter blades, they rotate, cutting through the air, whipping down at[…]

2019 March 26, Genevieve Iseult Eldredge, Rekindled: The Circuit Fae Nemesis Prequel - Novella 3.5, GirlyEngine Press, →ISBN:

SHINK! SHINK! SHINK! SHINK! The blades chopped the waterfall of cooked corn paste, spitting hot debris up into Dusty's fur. Her eyes were squeezed shut. Her ear was bleeding, her tail looked singed. And she was slipping. The[…]

2021 August 31, Christian McKay Heidicker, Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City, Henry Holt and Company (BYR), →ISBN:

Shink! The sound of a sword piercing through flesh.

2022 May 4, Preston Francis, The Fictionals and the Book Club Rebellion, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:

He hit nearly all targets in bull's-eye, fought like a gladiator, and eventually there was a shink of his sword. Kenya realized what he hit. It was a boy, blond, with nearly white hair and pale skin.

2024 January 11, Madelyn Lapierre, The Astro Chronicles, Fulton Books, Inc., →ISBN:

In particular, the sound of a blade sliding into or out of something.


pish posh

“Oh, pish posh,” Miss Beauregard didn't buy it. “Your home couldn't be that bad.”

2004, Greg Johnson, The Loony Bin Blues: The Next Generation Flies Over the Cuckoo's Nest, page 264:

“You don't believe in angels? Oh, pish-posh, Officer. How do you think we make it through the day without angels?”

2007, Julie Failla Earhart, Home Sweet Home & Other Dangerous Places, page 48:


anan

Variant form of anon (“in a moment; presently”).

'You are familiar with the Polynesian, I collect?' asked Stephen.
'Anan, sir?'
'The South Sea language.'

1991, Patrick O'Brian, Clarissa Oakes [historical fiction, set circa 1812]:

“There was once [a mother], as in reason; but she has now been dead and sunk these two good years.”
“Anan?” said Deerslayer, looking up at his companion in a little surprise.
“Dead and sunk, I say, and I hope that's good English. The old fellow lowered his wife into the lake, by way of seeing the last of her, as I can testify, being an eye-witness of the ceremony; but whether Tom did it to save digging, which is no easy job among roots, or out of a consait that water washes away sin sooner than 'arth, is more than I can say.”

1841, J[ames] Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer: A Tale. […], 1st British edition, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

“Poor child, in what a den of vice you have been brought up!”
“Anan, sir.”
“She don’t understand me. Have you been taught to read and write?”
“Oh no!”

1837, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Ernest Maltravers […] , volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC:

“Anan!” cried Briggs, recovering his temper from the perplexity of his understanding, at a discourse to which his ears were wholly unaccustomed, “what d'ye say?”

1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, volume III:

“I am quite assommé, Sir,” returned the Captain, “to disturb you, but I must really hint you don't comprehend me; the ladies are extremely inconvenienced by these sort of sights [a man without his wig], and we make it a principle they should never be accablées with them.”
“Anan!” cried Mr Briggs, staring.
“I say, Sir,” replied the Captain, “the ladies are quite au desespoir that you will not cover your head.”
“What for?” cried he, “what's the matter with my head? ne'er a man here got a better! very good stuff in it; won't change it with ne'er a one of you!”

1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, volume II:

She called out, however, “Are any of Mr Briggs's servants below?”
“Anan!” answered the boy, who came to the foot of the stairs, with a knife in one hand and an old shoe, upon the sole of which he was sharpening it, in the other, “Does any one call?”
“Yes,” said Cecilia, “I do; for I could not find the bell.”

1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, volume I:

This reply converted the looks of the inquirer into a stare of infinite stolidity, accompanied with the word, Anan! which he pronounced in a tone of fear and astonishment.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

As he walked along, Strap, at my desire, inquired of a carman, whom we met, whereabouts Mr. Cringer lived: and was answered by a stare, accompanied with the word “Anan!” Upon which I came up, in order to explain the question, but had the misfortune to be unintelligible likewise

(obsolete) Expressing incomprehension or doubt; often requesting repetition or clarification, especially as an as an interrogative.


pardi

And why so many grains of calomel? santa Maria! and such a dose of opium! periclitating, pardi! the whole family of ye, from head to tail.

1765, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 8, Penguin, published 2003, page 491:


asdfghjkl

From the second row of letters in a QWERTY keyboard.

(Internet slang) Expresses a moment of incoherence due to emotion on the part of the speaker.


tchah

Tchah! he wouldn't have cared to stay. He dines late and fashionable-like at home.

1890, George Manville Fenn, Eli's children: the chronicles of an unhappy family:

Tchah! I was stopped by two security patrols. First the Federals, they at least have some discipline, but the second! Aie, you know our municipales? Brutos. Worse than cops on TV, bang, bang.

1968, Bernard Victor Dryer, The torch bearers: a novel:

Tchah! She had to get him out the door. Did she say “No” to his latest impertinence? She must've, she supposed.


DFTBA

An initialism popularized by the Vlogbrothers, Hank and John Green.

And feel free to subscribe, cause you already know that makes you aware when the newest video is uploaded. Thanks and DFTBA

2009 May 2, Azrhel, “New option for uploading: formatting tags”, in youtube-howto (Usenet):

Hear^([sic])'s a link to his YT channel[.] Enjoy! DFTBA - don't forget to be awesome!

2009 May 7, jehazl...@gmail.com, “A young EC on the rise.”, in alt.music.eric-clapton (Usenet):

I will be out of town this weekend, so I won't be able to make it to the potluck. Sorry! ♥ DFTBA ☮, Ruchira

2010 June 11, Ruchira Larola, “Who wants to be a superstar?”, in summer-of-solutions-iowa-city-2010 (Usenet):

(Internet slang) Initialism of don't forget to be awesome.

Hank Green
John Green (author)
Vlogbrothers


wuxtry

Then outside my humble dwelling / Comes a strident brazen call, / "Wuxtry, Wuxtry!" / hear the yell, / "Two more churches shot to hell!"

1915, Elizabeth W. Champney, Romance of Old Belgium, from Cæsar to Kaiser, page 407:

When I got to the corner, I heard the boy calling "Wuxtry". He was walking slowly down the side street, pausing to hand out papers to people who came out of their houses.

1940, R. L. Goldman, The Snatch, page 108:

Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Negro threatened by lynch mob!

1969, Waters Edward Turpin, These low grounds, page 337:

Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Read all about blazing man of fire!

1994, Kurt Busiek, Marvels: Book One, page 6:

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


n/m

n/m, I should probably have read more inbox before replying.

2010 September 2, Peter Zijlstra, "Re: [PATCH 1/3] lib: introduce some memory copy macros and functions", in linux.kernel, Usenet

(Internet slang) Abbreviation of never mind.


bahaha

(chiefly Internet) Representation of laughter.


what's going on

(idiomatic, informal) An informal greeting.

(idiomatic, informal) An expression of concern, asking for an explanation.


'ello

A representation of the pronunciation of hello by a speaker whose dialect lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]).


thank fuck

(vulgar) Used to express gratitude or relief.

сла́ва я́йцам

vulgar exclamation of gratitude or relief


thank God

There is the story of the famous Hollywood glamour photographer who cooled his heels around Washington for three months while waiting for one of our leading commanders, and then was granted exactly 15 minutes for the sitting. […] Our military leaders simply don't have time for such trivia. Thank God!

1943 December 5, Herbert L. Bregstein, “The Armored Force and the Camera”, in Popular Photography, volume 13, number 6, page 77:


yayness

Wooo, yayness for you also! :)

2000, Miss Sparkle, “Much yayness of the yay variety!”, in alt.uk.penpals (Usenet):

I finally have Aliens Special Edition! Yayness!

2001, Belegdel, “ten for ten [poll]”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet):


geeminy

I wish to geeminy she'd stick to one or t'other

1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Penguin Group, page 5:


FML

(Internet slang, vulgar) Initialism of fuck my life. (expressing despairing annoyance)


by Jove

From Latin pro Iovem. Ellipsis of a full oath of the form "I swear by Jove that…" Originally a literal oath; later a minced oath.

By Jove, master marchant, by sea or by land / Would get but smale argent if I did not stand / His very good master, I may say to you, / When he hazards in hope what hap will insue.

1575, “Apius and Virginia”, in Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, editors, A Select Collection of Old Plays, London: Septimus Prowett, published 1826, page 353:

By Joves help I'l^([sic]) be there.

a. 1639, John Webster, Appius and Virginia, London: printed for Humphrey Moseley, published 1659, act 3, scene 1, page 38:

(obsolete, Classics) Invocation of the Roman god Jupiter.

By Jove, I always took three threes for nine.

1623, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act V, scene II:

Favours, by Jove that thunders! What art thou, fellow?

1623, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, act III, scene XIII:

"Oh, as to that!"—and Lord Fulkeward roused himself to some faint show of energy. "Who wouldn't admire her? By Jove! Only, I tell you what—there's something weird about her eyes. Fact! I don't like her eyes."

1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, page 30:

"I was sorry to fire my rifle, but, by Jove! there was no great choice." "We should not be here if you hadn't," said I, with conviction.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Well, I wasn't going to have any of that sort of thing, by Jove!

1916, P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves Takes Charge”, in A Wodehouse Miscellany:

(dated, chiefly British) minced oath for by God, Jove referring to Jupiter.

par Jupin

exclamation indicating surprise or emphasis


amirite

It's not like you wouldn't want to jump over those lava fountains, amirite?

2009, Tim Lindquist, New Super Mario Bros Wii Coin Collector's Guide, page 51:

(Internet slang, rhetorical question) Alternative spelling of am I right


take that

And now I'm going to hit you with my karate chop! Take that!

(informal) Used to accompany a (usually physical) attack by whoever is speaking.


bacaw

A representation of the vocal sound made by a chicken at the end of a series of clucks. Usually used in conjunction with either buck or cluck.

Buck buck bacaw! Betcha won't do it.

Used to accuse another person of cowardice.


ching chong

Standard Chinese phonology#Syllables
ching chong

/ˈtʃɪŋ ˌtʃɒŋ/

Onomatopoeic, originally representing characteristic syllables of Chinese, such as Mandarin's qing and chong, Cantonese's cing¹ and cong¹, Hokkien's chheng and chhong, and etc, as heard by English-speakers, and reinforced by perceptions of other Asian languages, especially with existing surnames of Chinese origin, such as Ching/Cheng and Chong/Chung.

He came up with three or four kids behind him, chanting 'Ching chong! Ching chong! Don't even know how to talk! Don't even know how to fight!'

2008, Alice Pung, Growing Up Asian in Australia, page 91:

For example, comedian and talk-show host Adam Corolla and NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal have each previously made ching chong comments in reference to Asians and Asian Americans.

2009, Kent A. Ono, Vincent N. Pham, Asian Americans and the media, page 104:

Growing up in Nebraska, I was “ching-chong’d” in school and asked why my eyes were so small. Later on, popular kids would compel me to do their homework with overtures of friendship, only to ignore me at recess.

2016 October 21, Crystal Chen, “I ‘Went Back to China’ — and Felt More American than Ever”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original on 2016-10-22:

(offensive, ethnic slur) Mimicking Chinese, Korean, Thai or other East/Southeast Asian speech.

ooga booga

mimicking African and Australian Aboriginal speech


hrmph

clearing one's throat
clear one's throat


twirp

The hounds are impatient. "Twirp, twirp, twirp!" goes the horn, and "Crack, crack, crack!" responds the whip. It is a chorus that stirs the blood of the veteran as well as that of the uninitiated fox-hunter.

The first guy climbed up a tree and the farmer yelled, "Who is in my tree?" "Twirp, twirp," replied the first guy. […] "Meow," replied the second guy.

1996 August, Garrett Barbuto, Boys' Life, page 54:

An imitation of the sound of a bird or a horn.


hot ziggety

Would you like the assignment?" Jacqueline raised her limpid blue eyes. "Would I like it?" she breathed. "Hot ziggety damn!" Houston sat back with a start.

2004, Eleanor Sullivan, Fifty Best Mysteries:

There was all that "longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning, the idle hopes, the joys and tears," which, God knows, Kate had personally experienced. Hot ziggety, thought Kate gleefully.

1991, Celestine Sibley, Ah, sweet mystery:

"Hot ziggety! A real one at last!"


ziggety

“Hot ziggety dam!” he chortled. "Prov'dence points de way trough de doorway ob hebbin.”


helas

Who ſo liſt to hounte I knowe where is an hynde
but as for me helas I may no more

c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Who so list to hounte”, in Egerton MS 2711, page 7v:


faix

(Ireland) Eye dialect spelling of fecks.


h'lo

“H'lo,” said Robert.
“Mary Lee!” her mother called and there were light steps upstairs.

1946, Frank Owen, Teen-age Companion, page 245:


you can talk

look who's talking
look who's talking#English


yo ho ho

Where the Ships sail down / To the Western Sun / Alone in the Ocean Blue, / Yo ho ho! Yo ho ho! / Yo ho ho! Yo ho ho!

1914, Werner Mathews, “Sailor’s Song. (Invitation to the Sea).”, in Adolescence: Being Selections from Occasional Poems and Meditations Illustrating that of the Author, Cambridge: At the press of the Cambridge Review; Fabb & Tyler, Limited, →OCLC, page 45:

'With a yo ho ho and we'll raise the flag, / We've lots of cake in a paper bag. / We've six watermelons and pizza too. / It's a pirate's life for me and you!' / The sound of singing—well, something like singing, anyway—floated up from the creek.

2004, Jackie French, “My Mum the Pirate”, in One Big Wacky Family, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, →ISBN:

When Asha threw the hair clip, the pirates jumped like flying fish to grab it. Pirate Joe leaped the highest and caught it. "Yo ho ho! It's mine!" he said.

2016, Adam Guillain, Charlotte Guillain, edited by Catherine Coe, Yo Ho Ho! (Rising Stars Reading Planet), London: Rising Stars UK, Hodder Education Group, →ISBN, page 13:


kazaam

As a first wish she said that she wished she was young and beautiful again.
Kazaam! Immediately she became young and beautiful. Next she wished that she lived in a gorgeous mansion.
Kazaam! The old house changed into a palace.

2009, Michael O'Shea, Brother Barney O.P., page 71:

Used to show that something appears by magic


swear down

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“Swear down. He's found religion. Well, that's what I've heard anyway.”

2011, Martin Stanley, The Gamblers, Martin Stanley, →ISBN, page 150:

It's nothing sketchy, swear down, it's just this one thing.”

2014, Antonin Varenne, Loser's Corner, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

Swear down. It's not all champagne and party poppers. Not.

2016, Cath Staincliffe, The Silence Between Breaths, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(MLE, Northern England) I promise; no lie.


bleargh

Bleargh! I'm sure this worked yesterday...


oh my Goddess

Oh my Goddess, I cannot believe that just crawled out of the sink!

Chronic dieting is self-absorption taken to an art form. And, oh my Goddess, can it make us sanctimonious! Dieters are worse than people who've found religion: We have seen the Lite, and it is Weight Watchers' ranch dressing. […] Women are starving in Africa, North Korea, the Balkans, and even the US.

2001, Susan Jane Gilman, Kiss My Tiara: how to rule the world as a smartmouth goddess:

While Peregrine used the bathroom Eryn wandered around the pavilion exploring.
She screamed. Her scream reached Peregrine where he sat.
“Oh my goddess, oh my goddess. Get that thing outta here.”
Peregrine ran from behind the shoji. Perhaps a viper had slithered down from the overhead branches.

2002, Terry J. Kunkel, Is Wanting Enough?, pages 557–560:

Being invited to Monkey World was one thing — but Brazil! ‘Oh my Goddess! Oh my Goddess!’ Indigo chanted quietly whilst fumbling with her rucksack. ‘I'd have to ask Dad,’ cautioned Brandon.

2007, Christine Jordan, Indigo, page 131:

“Are you all right?” he whispered softly.
“Oh my Goddess,” I said. “Let's do that again.” And so we did, only with variations on the theme, until I finally remembered we were supposed to be doing protective magic. By that time, I was too physically exhausted to summon anything […]

2008, Tate Hallaway, Romancing the Dead:

The moon came out from behind a cloud and she got a good look at Ray. “Oh. My. Goddess.” The man always has that effect on women. I felt a surge of hope. Ray's not shy.

2009, Gerry Bartlett, Real Vampires Don't Diet:

Said in excitement, shock, awe, dismay, or supplication.


yippee ki-yay

Associated with the 19th-century Western United States; possibly influenced by a line, yippee yi yo kayah, from a 1930s song.

"YIPPY-KAI-YAY, MOTHERFUCKER!" Porkchop bellowed, firing off a dozen rounds in the Old Man's general direction. Some actually struck the monster, evinced by the sprays of black mucus that shot out behind it, but it didn't seem to notice as it strode menacingly in Porkchop's direction. His aim grew more erratic as the monster approached, with some bullets flying wild into the wood pile or kicking up plumes of dirt far behind his target.

2022 October 24, Kothardarastrix, “A Nightmare on 17th Street”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-01-16:

If you wanted to tell it more from an American side of things... if you wanted to go for the tragic angle, you could either do, Atlanta or Juneau; if you wanted to go with the, uhhh, y'know, yippee ki-yay, guns-firing-all-left-right-and-center, you would go with Helena; or, if you wanted to go with a kind of human-struggle side of things, probably focus on San Francisco; and, if you were going with the Helena option, then, obviously, you could include ships like Laffey and so on and so forth.

2023 November 30, Drachinifel, 2:25:51 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 257 (Live Segment) - 30th November 2023, archived from the original on 2023-12-25:

An exclamation used to startle or frighten an opponent.


in sha Allah

A transcription of the Arabic إِن شَاءَ اللّٰه (ʔin šāʔa llāh).

bor

إِن شَاءَ اللّٰه

Arabic إِن شَاءَ اللّٰه (ʔin šāʔa llāh)


roger that

Extension of roger for received in radio traffic (by 1950), the pronoun referring to the last information received; in use by 1969, popularised at first by radio transmissions from NASA's Apollo missions, later in military fiction.

1969 "Capsule Communicator: '11, this is Houston. We've completed the trunnion zero bias setting. You can retrieve the computer and go to BLOCK.' Commander (Neil A. Armstrong): 'Roger that. Thank you.' ", Apollo 11 Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription (Tape 4/5, mission time 5h 16 min), 16 July 1969.

(radio telecommunications) Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)

1974 "This is the book for everybody who ever groaned under the onslaught of trivia transmitted by the astronauts ('This sunset is really something, Houston...' 'Roger that...'). review of M. Collins, "Carrying the Fire", Flying Magazine, November 1974, p. 108.

1989 "'It's going to blow visibility to shit, too.' 'Roger that.'" Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger, p. 506.

(idiomatic) Used to acknowledge receipt and understanding of a message


nothing doing

"I'll fix his clock all right."
"Nothing doing. I won't have it."

1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 11, in The Sheriff's Son:

"[P]erhaps you might sell them a submarine or some of your diving apparatus."
"Nothing doing, Ned. We've got other plans."

1920, Victor Appleton, chapter 1, in Tom Swift And His Undersea Search:

[T]he employes of Detroit's Bundy Tubing Co. wanted a raise of 18 1/2 cents an hour. Said Bundy flatly: nothing doing.

1946 November 4, “MANAGEMENT: Bundy Saves & Shares”, in Time:

[S]he'd consoled herself with a fresh plan: she'd refuse to go to her father when he came back. Nothing doing, she'd say.

2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, →ISBN, page 255:

(dated, idiomatic, now chiefly India) Absolutely not; definitely no.

"You see, Walter," he said, "in truth this business is merely a habit with me . . . but there's nothing doing, nothing doing. . . . I hardly know where I am myself; much less where my customers are."

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

There was nothing doing in the district—no mining—no milling—no productive effort—no income—[…]

1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIX, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 214:

I began to think that there was nothing doing, that he'd just come on the trip for his health.

1922, Agatha Christie, chapter 11, in The Secret Adversary:

There was nothing doing in the kitchen.

2010, Lee Child, Persuader, →ISBN, page 58:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nothing, doing: nothing that is currently occurring; nothing going on.


boomshanka

The phrase originated in an episode of the British television comedy series The Young Ones. The pilot episode, first aired in 1982 and entitled "Demolition", included a brief piece of dialogue by Neil, who was fantasizing about taking advantage of the impending demolition of their home to commit suicide:
* Neil: When they come, I'm going to hide in the wall cavity and pretend to be thermal insulation. And when they knock the wall down, boomshanka!
The phrase was also spoken by Neil in an episode entitled "Cash", which was first broadcast in 1984. The segment of dialogue, where Neil is composing a letter to his bank manager to request a loan, is as follows;
* Neil: I know, why not "Boomshanka"?
* Mike: It's hard to tell, Neil. What does it mean?
* Neil: It means, "May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman."
* Rick: A-ha! And what makes you think your bank manager is a man?
* Neil: Uhm... His beard.
* Mike: He'll never understand "Boomshanka". You'll have to write the whole thing out.
* Neil: Right, okay, here we go. "Darling Fascist Bullyboy: Give me some more money, you bastard. May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman, Neil."

(British, humorous) A wish of happiness.


fucksticks

"Fucksticks!" When some other fucker pushes in a queue / "Fucksticks!" When you get caught short and really need a poo / "Fucksticks!" When I came a-tumbling off my BMX / "Fucksticks!" When I split my frenulum while having sex

2011, Kunt and the Gang, Fucksticks (song)

Would A Christmas Carol have been as popular if instead of saying 'Bah, Humbug!' Ebenezer Scrooge had said, 'Oh, Fucksticks!'? What's the funniest expletive you can imagine Scrooge exclaiming?

2018, Richard Herring, Emergency Questions: 1001 conversation-savers for any situation:

His eyes rolled back in his head and his slender form crumpled to the floor like someone had just cut his strings.
"Oh, fucksticks!" I breathed, rushing to him and pulling him into my arms.

2019, Kaye Draper, Gesa's Menagerie Box Set (books 7-9)

(UK, Ireland, colloquial, vulgar) Expressing frustration.


oh my hell

Old strap for strop, penn’orth of emery powder, bit of Sunlight, nail‐brush to rub it on face, and — oh my hell !— torture — and your face is smooth again.

1931, Lionel Britton, Hunger and Love, page 60:

Expression of shock, frustration, or dismay.


thwap

THE COMPLETELY MAD DON MARTIN, a two-volume honker that includes every drawing Martin ever published in the magazine, answers the question with a definitive thwap: Martin's cartoons are still weird.

2007 December 2, Stephanie Zacharek, “Mad”, in New York Times:


good morrow

/ɡʊd ˈmɒɹəʊ/

From Middle English good morow, good morwe.

Creſ[ſida]. Good morrow vncle Pandarus.
 Pan[darus]. Good morrow cozen Creſſid: what doe you talke of? good morrow, Alexander: how doe you cozen? when were you at Ilium?

c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

Good Morrow, Neighbour; good Morrow, Neighbour Cloggit; How do's all at your Houſe this Morning?

1705, [John Vanbrugh], The Confederacy. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:

"Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."

1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:


consarn it

Derived from the exclamation consarnation, a dialect pronunciation of consternation.
Either from a dialectal variant of concern, or possibly from an alteration of confound it.

(dialect, dated, minced oath) A mild oath.


goody gumdrops

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(childish) A cry of delight on hearing good news.

Goody gumdrops, I get to take the trash out!

(sarcastic) Implied disdain or disinterest with something.


uhh

“He said, ‘You’re that tennis player,’ and I’m like: ‘Uhh, uhh, yeah. It’s me.’ ” She laughed.

2008 January 13, Karen Crouse, “Searching for Sharapova, and Finding a Dichotomy”, in New York Times:


suffering catfish

"Sweet suffering catfish!" said Mickey. "All you have to do is give me the darned stick, not throw it at me. When I want to play hockey. I'll let you know.

"Suffering catfish! Why did I ever let you write this piece?"

"But, suffering catfish, Mr. Woolwine," I protested. "You can't do that! What would be left?"

1966, Sidney Joseph Perelman, Chicken Inspector, number 23:

(dated) An exclamation of disgusted dismay.


suffering cats

Suffering cats!! My shoes became full of carpet tacks and I leapt so high that me head nearly hit the ceiling.

1917 July 5, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 181, column 3:

"By the Harvest of Souls, hurry! Hurry! Here's the boy saying he's been eating, the stuff we don't mention. Suffering cats! I'll go mad!"

"Oh, suffering cats, they've started already," said Becker under his breath.

1952, Manning Coles, The exploits of Tommy Hambledon:

suffering catfish
suffering catfish#English


git along

Pronunciation spelling of get along (“move along”).

Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies,
It's your misfortune, and none of my own.
Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies,
For you know Wyoming will be your new home.

1910, John Avery Lomax, Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads, page 87:

(US, cowboy slang, often said to cattle) Move; keep going.


hoicks

Alternative form of yoicks (“hunting cry”)


roll on

Roll on summer!


yarr

Yarr, this be a fine ship.

Alternative form of arr (“used stereotypically in imitation of pirates”)


what ho

What ho, Frobisher!

What ho, there! All who are within hearing, return without fear. Caesar has tamed the lion.

1912 February 6 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Androcles and the Lion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 44:

‘What ho!’ […] ‘Treasons, strategems and spoils.’

1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 18:

(Commonwealth, UK, Ireland, informal, dated) An exclamation of greeting, summons, or surprise.


sies

'Sies, man,' a voice said. 'You're a domkop. How you gonna see 'em?'

2008, William Higham, Nakada's Touch, page 316:

“Sies, man!” she said to herself. “Where are the men of this house? Is anybody home?”

2011, Niq Mhlongo, After Tears, page 13:

(South Africa) Expressing disgust, disappointment, or annoyance.


fye

African-American Vernacular, Southern US

Respelling of fire to reflect a non-rhotic pronunciation with glide weakening and smoothing as in Southern or African American Vernacular English


TQ

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of thank you.


fair dos

"[…] Lansley said he was disappointed I had gone public without telling him. Which is fair dos except he could have found out if he had bothered to see me […]"

2011 July 26, Jeremy Laurance quoting Sir Roger Boyle, “Sir Roger Boyle: 'It is horrific that the NHS's future is threatened'”, in Independent:


zookers

Shortened from gadswookers, Godsookers; compare gadzooks.

‘Zookers, lass, I never envy these young fellows their rides and scampers, unless when you come across me.’

1817, Rob Roy, Walter Scott, section VIII:

(obsolete) An expression of mild annoyance, surprise etc.


txs

(Internet slang) Abbreviation of thanks.


bumpity

"There he goes!" cried his delighted master, throwing down the poker and snapping his fingers in an ecstasy — "Bumpity bump! bumpity bump! Hope he won't stop at the landing-place — no — off again! All stone steps!

1833, Horace Smith, Gale Middleton: A Story of the Present Day, page 229:

Daria closed her eyes, exhaling slow smoke through her nostrils, listening to the bumpity sound of wheels on the polished cobblestone unevenness of the street.

The rhythmic bumpity, bumpity, bumpity bump of a pissed academic with arthritic knees falling down the stairs, ricocheting between wall and banister as he went.

2002, Marian Keyes, Under the Duvet, page 193:

Bang, bang, bumpity bump, I hear as spruce cones fall on the metal roofing of my woodshed.

2011, Amy Seidl, Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming:

"I've always wanted romance, and I realized I'd had it with her. It made my heart go all bumpity-bump. Then she called me her light, and that was that."

2019 August 14, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Aug 14, 2019:

Nonce variation of the word bump, usually indicating the sound of someone or something tumbling down an uneven surface, or traveling on a rough road.


phpht

[…] uplift bra . . . odourless hair removing cream . . . phpht! Twenty-four hour deodorant . . . slimming pills . . . contraceptive pills […]

1991, Franca Rame, Dario Fo, Stuart Clink Hood, A woman alone & other plays:

> But... some of us do have to work for a living. As a result our dog(s)
>must be left for 8 hrs per day by themselves. :-(
Yeah, phpht. Working...phpht.

1993, Cindy Tittle Moore, “Dogs or Humans as Canine Companions”, in rec.pets.dogs (Usenet):

"Phpht! Eat your noodle soup, and don't pay no attention to that there foolishness."

1995, Richard Hoffman, Half the house: a memoir:

“Phpht!” Bravegart spit out. “Okay, Stonah, a trade it is. You give them one of your feathers. A feather for an arrow. […]

2003, Mark Fidler, Blaze of the Great Cliff, page 39:


nyah

Unclear. Assertions of its universality among children regardless of culture or parent tongue are likely false: see https://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2011/07/nuh-nuh.html, https://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2011/07/nuh-nuh-2.html, https://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2011/07/nuh-nuh-3.html

When the waves didn't catch me, I would laugh and sing out, "Nyah, nyah, nyah!"

1993, Ted Andrews, Enchantment of the faerie realm, page 74:

Yankee fans have been saying, Nyah, nyah, I told you so, since the news was revealed in The New York Times.

2009 August 7, George Vecsey, “On Big Day for Bronx, Cheating Is Nonissue”, in New York Times:


nyah

(fandom slang, Internet slang) meow, especially spoken by a catgirl or catboy


thwop

Tennis may be the quietest sport, with long stretches of respectful silence interrupted only by the thwop of balls being hit.

2009 August 28, Laurel Graeber, “Spare Times: For Children”, in New York Times:

(chiefly pornographic manga) Alternative form of fwop.


poh

Oh, poh! they might have been counted some how or other, unless indeed they were so numerous as to require all our people to stand sentinel round them.

1811 May 29, William Cobbett, “Summary of Politics”, in Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, volume 19, number 43, page 1323:

Poh, it's from your sister at Lyons, and contains good news: read it.

1856, Oliver Goldsmith, The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, page 69:

"Oh poh!" said Benny. "When I grow up, I'm goin' to have a span!"

1877, Abby Morton Diaz, Brother Billy, Dorry Baker, and Bubby Short, page 208:

"Poh, poh! it's a mere trifle, I repeat," Tibbits rejoined.

1857, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Spendthrift: A Tale, page 298:

“Oh, poh, poh !—her purse, if she likes it better; the little receptacle which my wife and daughters find it convenient for me to keep—well filled—in my pocket.

The virtue of the yaller dog is his bark. To hear that bark and not see the barker would make one imagine that he did the biting for all dogdom: but seeing the source one only says, “Poh, it's the yaller dog !”

1873, American Observer - Volume 10, page 492:

(dated) Indicating that something is trivial and not worth consideration.

Lady Anſw[erall]. Colonel, ſome Ladies of your Acquaintance have promis'd to breakfast with you, and I am to wait on them; what will you give us? / Col[onel Atwit]. Why, faith, Madam, Batchelors Fare; Bread and Cheeſe, and Kiſſes. / Lady Anſw. Poh! what have you Batchelors to do with your Money, but to treat the Ladies? you have nothing to keep but your own Four Quarters.

1738, Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used at Court, and in the Best Companies of England. In Three Dialogues, London: Printed by B[enjamin] Motte, and C. Bathurst, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, →OCLC, page 61:

Oh — poh ! how do you know I had any call to the dark man - and as for Sally — sure there she's westwards in" the fields ; take her, and welcome. Keep out o' my way now, I'd advise you.

1862 April 26, Gerald Griffin, “Suil Dhuv, The Coiner”, in Illustrated Dublin Journal, volume 1, number 34:

“Oh, poh, you're joking now. As if you're s' innocent as all that! I'm not the only girl you've kissed an' fondled.

2013, Winston Graham, The Grove of Eagles: A Novel of Elizabethan England, page 267:

Poh, but it's a dull day! I think I'll be off to the races.

1978, Samuel Agnew Schreiner, Angelica: a novel, page 1:

(dated) Expressing disagreement or irritation

Poh it's disgusting, Mr. Caudle.

1851, Eliza Cook, Eliza Cook's Journal, page 327:

But if my way were written down and printed, he would not touch it. "Poh, it's bookish !"

1859, Henry Ward Beecher, Plain and Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming:

"Poh, it's all bosh!" Now let us inquire in what States land is the best managed, yields the most with the least cost, where are the best sheep, the best cattle, the best hegs, the best wheat?

1866, John Turner, The American Farmer, page 359:

George exploded coarsely: “Poh! It's no good asking mother."

1916, Arnold Bennett, These Twain, page 22:

(dated) Expressing disgust or repulsion.


slappity

Nonce variation of the word slap, usually used to indicate a series of small slapping actions.


thumpity

Nonce variation of the word thump, usually indicating a bumpy action.


grumpity

Nonce variation of the word grump, usually used as an intensifier.


crappity

Nonce variation of the word crap, usually used as an intensifier.


jumpity

Nonce variation of the word jump, usually used to indicate a series of small jumping actions.


clackity

Nonce variation of the word clack, usually indicating one of a series of clacking sounds.


humpity

Nonce variation of the word hump, usually indicating a bumpy action.


hoppity

Nonce variation of the word hop, usually used to indicate a series of small hopping actions.


flappity

Jest then in come Mrs. Pelto with one of them French sisters with the flappity caps, the same as 'ad been in the mornin', and come from the 'Ospital.

1878, Arthur Sketchley, Mrs. Brown at the Paris exhibition, page 108:

‘Flappity, flappity, flappity,’ the thin man sang. ‘Cut it out,’ Grissom said.

1991, Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands, page 66:

... I was mindful of the hissings and shoutings coming from the cave and thought an interesting foreign gentleman would be a good distraction for them, even if he did land up going flappity, flappity down the mountain on little webbed feet.

2004, Nelson Mandela, editor, Favorite African Folktales, page 216:

Nonce variation of the word flap, usually indicating a series of small or ineffective flaps.


clickity

Her stick made a little clickety noise on the flagstones.

1911, Marguerite Audoux, Marie-Claire, page 51:

As so many times before one finds a cozy corner in a coach, props oneself on an elbow and gazes out the window as the scenery goes speeding by to the cadence of clickity, clickity, clickity, click as the wheels strike the spaces between the rails with increasing speed.

1984, Charles Sauriol, Tales of the Don, page 61:

The SWOOPER started to move faster and faster and soon they were swooping along a dark tunnel, clickity, clickity, clickity-clack.

2003, Tom Condon, The Sandman: Stories to Read to Children, page 5:

When I was about halfway through the hatch, the engine went “clickity, clickity, clickity, and boom,” igniting the gasoline vapors in the compartment into a huge fireball.

2009, Alton McVey, Dancing with the Bear, page 198:

Instead of a raft floating down the Mississip,' it'll be a clickity clack across the desert.

2010, Jerome Peterson, Thumb Flagging, page 162:

As she walked to JoJo's house, Katie ran a stick along a fence. She liked the clickity-clackity sound.

2015, Fran Manushkin, Katie's Noisy Music, page 8:

Nonce variation of the word click, usually indicating one of a series of clicking sounds.


Jiminy Cricket

Euphemistic alteration of Jesus Christ. The cartoon character was named for the minced oath, which is recorded from the early 1800s onwards.


blow me

When she told him to get lost, he said, "Blow me, bitch!"

Some things never happen, he reminds himself. But this one always does, says the still small voice of mortality. Blow me, Laney tells it.

1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 226:

(idiomatic, vulgar) An expression of discontent or aggravation to another party (with a metaphorical connotation of fellatio).

With a look of disdain, he exclaimed: “Blow me, your shirt! Why in 'ell didn't you use mud?”

1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P. Putnam's, page 44:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated, informal) Ellipsis of blow me tight.


haw-haw

"Bless thy simplicity, Tess," said her companions. "He's got his market-nitch. Haw-haw!"

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 19:

Alternative form of ha ha (“laughter”) (sometimes suggesting an upper-class British accent)


eat shit

"I fucked your sister!" "Eat shit!"

(idiomatic, vulgar) An expression of discontent or aggravation to another party.


wham, bam, thank you ma'am

I confess to have been with a few hookers (the rentals), the wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am kind.

2002, Patrick Mitchell, This Bank Robber's Life, page 249:

The guys just want 'wham, bam, thank-you ma'am.' They don't care about building a relationship.

2010, Leonard Sax, Girls on the Edge, page 33:

Denoting swift, formulaic, and unromantic sexual intercourse.


you betcha

(colloquial) Alternative form of you bet


shup

- That shirt looks well bad.

- Shup mate!

(UK, slang) Pronunciation spelling of shut up.


sibo

Derived from Hokkien 是無／是无 (sī-bô, “is not”).

u dun understand english sibo?

2009 December 29, GMAudition, “Gamerz Planet”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Ka ni na, ask stupid question sibo?

2010 September 26, Ang Shi Na, “Sheena’s101”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

You are factoring in the interest sibo?

2013 August 6, “BlueOldMan, HDB Resales price”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Grin until mouth crooked sibo?

2015 May 12, May Lee, “Study stress”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(Singapore, informal) An expression of disbelief, equivalent to Is it so?


gidday

“Giidday, gidday, welcome aboard, one and all!” There he stands, grinning, larger than life, a nutbrown teddy bear in a black G-string and a cowboy hat, champagne cocktail in one hand, the other held out to hoist us aboard.

2002, William Brandt, The Book of the Film of the Story of my Life, page 190:

“Oh, gidday, Stan”, I said.

2004, James Roy, Billy Mack's War, page 106:

“Gidday”, she says, grinning happily.
“Gidday”, he replies, with a grin for her: it flits over his face and is gone by the time he looks at Joe.

2005, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, page 132:

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) Alternative form of g’day


what-what

(UK, dated) Used to add emphasis to, and to seek agreement with, a previous statement.


tnx

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of thanks.


what in tarnation

2003. Judith Silverstein, Michael Lasky, "Online dating for dummies"
What in Tarnation to Write I still remember the first girl I called up for a date at age 15.

Other euphemisms of this type (and there are many) include what in tarnation for what in damnation and what the Sam Hill for what the damn hell.

2005. Charles Harrington Elster, "What in the word?", Page 35

2007. Diane Stanley. "The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy" Page 141.
“What in tarnation do you think you're doing?”

What in tarnation have you done with my wallet!?

(idiomatic) used to add emphasis to "what" when beginning question.


lackadaisy

Alteration of lack-a-day or alack-the-day.


yanno

Have you, yanno, told her yet?

2022, Ivy Noelle Weir, Anne of West Philly: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Anne of Green Gables, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 217:

Pronunciation spelling of you know, representing US English.


heigh

Inherited from Middle English heigh, hey, hay, hei, heh, probably of imitative origin. Compare hey, eh.

onomatopoeic

imitative

Heigh, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts.

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

An exclamation designed to call attention, give encouragement, etc.