frickle

"Frickle frackle,” she said, stomping out.

2008, Sarah Thyre, Dark at the Roots: A Memoir:

I know that they loved me and all that frickle-feely stuff, surely wanted the best but I didn't care too much for love—at least not now.

Finally, I though of something with survival value: I need to get the frickle out of here before anyone sees this tattoo!

2016, Adam Bradley, Matt Leyshon, Stuart Hughes, Morpheus Tales, page 146:


thnx

(text messaging) Abbreviation of thanks.


Christ on a bike

A humorous variation of the exclamation "Christ alive" or "Christ" or "Jesus Christ". Usually an expression of surprise, shock, exasperation etc.


foh

Offence? As I'm a Perſon, I'm aſhamed of you—Fogh! how you ſtink of Wine! Dee think my Niece will ever endure ſuch a Borachio! you'r an abſolute Borachio.

1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene x, page 62:

"Foh!" said Madame Mantalini, "how he ever gets into a carriage without thinking of a hearse, I can't think. There, take the things away, my dear, take them away."

1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Miss Knag, after doating on Kate Nickleby for three whole Days, makes up her mind to hate her for evermore. The Causes which lead Miss Knag to form this resolution.”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 169:

(obsolete) An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt.


coochy coo

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Uncertain. Perhaps imitative of a baby’s vocalizations. Compare coo. Attested from the late 19th century, with coochey, oochy a bit earlier.

An affectionate vocalization normally used towards a baby.


anend

(dialectal, interrogatory) How; come again; say what.


kerplop

The sound of something falling, especially when hitting water.


whallah

People back East always thought it was a simple matter: a property, a star, a director — and whallah — a picture.

1984, Josh Greenfield, The Return of Mister Hollywood, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 23:

They were mammoth but if you turned down a random corner then, whallah!—there might be an arts & crafts show.

2011 November 13, James Altucher, “10 Things Entrepreneurs Don’t Learn in College”, in TechCruch:


selah

From Biblical Hebrew סֶלָה (sélā), of unknown origin.

God commeth from Theman, and the holy one from mount Paran, Selah. his glorie couereth the heauens, and the earth is full of his prayse.

1568, Matthew Parker, The holie. Bible. Conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe [The Bishops' Bible], London: Imprinted at London in povvles Churchyarde by Richarde Iugge, printer to the Queenes Maiestie, →OCLC, Habakkuk 3:3:

LORD, how are they increased that trouble mee: many are they that riſe vp againſt me. / Many there bee which ſay of my ſoule, There is no helpe for him in God. Selah. / But thou, O LORD, art a ſheild for me; my glory, and the lifter vp of mine head. / I cryed vnto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of holy hill. Selah.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 3:1–4:

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. / From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. / For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. / I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

1769, The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches [King James Version], Cambridge: Printed by John Archdeacon printer to the University; and sold by John Beecroft, John Rivington, Benjamin White, and Edward Dilly, in London; and T. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge, →OCLC, Psalm 61:1–4:

[…] Ps[alm] xlvi has three Selahs (vs. 3, 7, 11,) and likewise a repetition in vs. 7, 11, which, as we have already fully illustrated, Selah greatly intensifies. In Ps. xlix there are two Selahs (vs. 13, 15,) indicating the refrain, "Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:" and, also, a repetition, (with some variation,) of the following words, "Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish." Vs. 12, 20.

1863 December 4, “Art. III. – The Meaning and Use of סֶלָה (Selah.)”, Robert J[efferson] Breckinridge [et al.], editors, The Danville Quarterly Review, volume IV, number II, Danville, Ky.; Cincinnati, Oh.: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 25 West Fourth Street, published June 1864, OCLC 4609985, page 240

Students of Selah have been puzzled because in the psalms, which Mishna ascribes to each day of the week for the daily sacrifice, the desired number of Selahs is not to be found. The answer is that the pᵉraqim were timed to the ritual at the altar and that, even though the term Selah might not occur at all in some of these psalms, the pᵉraqim and prostrations referred to the actual Selah ceremony.

1968, Rembert Sorg, Habaqquq III and Selah, Fifield, Wis.: King of Martyrs Priory, →OCLC, page 33:

(biblical) A word occurring between verses or paragraphs in parts of the Hebrew Bible, namely in Habakkuk and the Psalms; perhaps indicating a pause, either for contemplation or for the singer to clear his or her throat.


good now

Good now, some excellent fortune! Let mee
be married to three Kings in a forenoone, and Widdow them[…]

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

(obsolete) An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty.


eugh

"Eugh," he said, "this cake is dry."

2006, Morag Prunty, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage, page 272:


Christ on a cracker

A humorous variation of the exclamation "Christ" or "Jesus Christ". Usually an expression of surprise, shock, exasperation etc.


areet

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(Northern England) Pronunciation spelling of all right.


slatt

Acronym of slime love all the time or slime life all the time coined and popularised by Young Thug.

(slang) Used to express affection between friends, especially within the hip-hop community.


heartlings

My will! ’od’s heartlings, that’s a pretty jest indeed!

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

(obsolete) An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance.


eee

Liz[:] Eee, I love it, Jack.

2013 November 1, John Godber, Godber Plays: 2: Teechers; Happy Jack; September in the Rain; Salt of the Earth, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 93:

"Eee! How cute is this?” demanded Mimi, picking up the decorative basket containing the emergency kit of tampons, safety pins, bleach pen, clear nail polish, deodorant and band-aids.

2020 January 15, Bethany Maines, An Unfamiliar Sea, Blue Zephyr Press:

"How amazing! Oh my god, I must hear all the salacious details."
Caleb shook his head. "Later, if Valkyrie consents to share anything with you. Focus, please?"
"Right, right, right. Eee, I love it! […]"

2022 May 22, G. S. Jennsen, Chaotica: Riven Worlds Book Five, Hypernova Publishing:

An expression of happiness or excitement: yay!


no duff

From the RAF slang expression "duff gen" meaning bad information; no duff, by extension means accurate, also: stop operations until ordered otherwise.

“Sunray, No Duff, No Duff, No Duff. We need a medic, we’ve got a man down. Wound to the upper arm, and major blood loss. Over.” ¶ All the other chatter on all the radios went dead with the ‘No Duff.’ It was the signal for a medical emergency.

2001, Ska Child, David Harris, Skavoovee, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, page 152:

“Someone grabbed me from behind and said ‘No duff,’ which means this is real,” said LCdr. Wong. “That’s what everybody heard, ‘Plane crash, 737,’ and all of us started running to our posts,” he told reporters after Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived here to commend those who raced to the scene.

2011 August 24, Gloria Galloway, “When troops heard ‘no duff,’ they knew Resolute Bay rescue wasn’t an exercise”, in The Globe and Mail:

(UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, military slang, radio voice procedure) Indicating that this is not a drill or training exercise.


suffering succotash

Catchphrase of Looney Tunes characters Sylvester and Daffy Duck. Euphemistic for "suffering savior".


fugh

He may make a shift to sow lettuce, raise melons, and water a garden-plat; but otherwise, a very filthy fellow: how odiously he smells of his country garlick! fugh, how he stinks of Spain.

1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

(obsolete) An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh.


okeh

Sometimes said to be from Choctaw oke, okeh (“it is so”). Probably simply a variant of OK.

"Look it up in the latest dictionary," suggested the President. And here is part of what was found: O.K.—a humorous or ignorant spelling of what should be "okeh," from the Choctaw language meaning, "It is so" ...

1918, The Clothier and Furnisher, reprint edition, volume 93, page 87:

… how deeply the progressive element in the Democratic party throughout the country might misunderstand and even resent his putting his "okeh" on the candidacy of the Illinois leader for the senatorship, …

1921, Joseph P. Tumulty, “Chapter XIV, Wilson and the Old Guard”, in Woodrow Wilson as I know Him, Reprint edition, Echo Library, published 2006, →ISBN, page 67:

"Well, since Ron ain't goin, why don't you come on and go along with us two, Susie?" / "Okeh," Susie grinned. "Why not?"

1967, James Jones, Go to the Widowmaker, Reprint edition (fiction), Random House, published 1979, →ISBN:


bleurgh

Sighing, I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep. But the noises went on. I squinted at the clock. Bleurgh.

2007, Kate Johnson, A is for Apple, page 112:

She had delivered her babies, chomped her way with relish through their afterbirths (bleurgh) and was now lying peacefully on the bed with all four babies curled up at her side.

What?! Eat Algae and Insects?! Bleurgh!! No way!

2011, Glenn Murphy, Will Farts Destroy The Planet?:

Expressing a sick or sickened feeling, or vomiting.


all hail

Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

a phrase of salutation, welcome, or acclamation.


holy cricket

Hermione Granger: Holy cricket, you're Harry Potter!

2001, Steve Kloves, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 00:37:16:

An interjection showing an extreme form of surprise that can be used for both positive and negative moments of sudden enlightenment (like an epiphany); oh my God, great Scott.


wth

Alternative letter-case form of WTH: what the hell.


uhu

(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of uh-huh


wowee

wow; expressing astonishment, surprise or excitement


holy crickets

But…holy crickets. He's naked.

2010, Katie MacAlister, In the Company of Vampires, Signet, published 2010, →ISBN, page 86:

(idiomatic) An expression of surprise or astonishment.


bobbery

Alteration of Hindi बाप रे (bāp re, “O father!”).

Thus the British and Colonial Courts are comparatively empty compared with the Indian Court and jewellery room, which are invariably crowded - so much so that special precautions have to be taken with regard to the latter, only a few being admitted at a time, and they stare at gaudy pictures and glittering jewellery and at the gold brocades and brilliant silks and cloths of their own country and cry "Bapré" or, as it is generally known, "Bobbery," in admiration[.]

1884 February 5, The South Australian Register, Adelaide, page 1, column 1:

"Hullo!" said Col. Wingate, of the Dogras, who had just entered the stand, "another Carr-Jones spoof? By Jove, it isn't Carr-Jones; it's Polhill and Ulmun! Oh! bobbery: here, I'll lay a hundred to one in gold mohurs against the griffs!"

1908 September 5, The Evening Journal, Adelaide, page 6, column 2:

(Anglo-Indian, obsolete) Oh dear! Alas! Good lord!


oh my stars

"O Lord!" says Mr. Smallweed, panting. "Oh, dear me! Oh, my stars! My dear friend, your workman is very strong—and very prompt. O Lord, he is very prompt! Judy, draw me back a little. I'm being scorched in the legs," which indeed is testified to the noses of all present by the smell of his worsted stockings.

1883, Charles Dickens, chapter XXVI, in Bleak House:


oh my Lord

"Oh my Lord!" said a stunned Geneva McNeil, reached by telephone at her East Baltimore home and told that the jury had awarded $3.3 million to her and her ailing husband.

1992 July 24, Jay Apperson, “$11 million goes to three plaintiffs in asbestos trial”, in The Baltimore Sun:

(invoking God, offensive to some) An expression of surprise, astonishment, shock, dismay, supplication, or consternation.

invoking God; offensive to some; invoking God; offensive to some


'snails

From God's nails, or His nails, i.e. those with which Jesus Christ was crucified.

'Snails , I'm almost starv'd with Love, and Cold, and one thing or other

c. 1613, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, “Wit at Several Weapons. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:


yeow

Yeow! I don't think I could recommend going to this extreme, but the story certainly illustrates the lengths to which one is inspired to go to experience the feeling of steam-cleaned skin.

1999, Annie Berthold-Bond, Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living:

"You see anything?" Yeow! I jumped ten feet in the air, dropping the lamp in the process.

1995, Robin Gibson, The Sheriff of Whiskey City:


good-den

Corruption of good e'en, for good evening.

Enter Iohn the Baſtard.
Baſtard My lord and brother, God ſaue you.
Prince Good den brother.
Baſtard If your leiſure ſeru’d, I would ſpeake with you.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], signatures E2, recto – E2, verso:

(obsolete) A salutation; "good evening".


tra-la-la

meaningless syllables used when humming a tune


blarg

Blarg! I'm sick of this.

(informal) Expressing frustration or disappointment.


fair crack of the whip

Like you mean the non interference of the officials with the knockon from Soward and not called and the knockon from Chase which eventuated in a try to the Dragons not called, fair crack of the whip mate, see both sides of the coin, not the one you want to see.

2007 July 19, john smith, “Dumb Referee”, in aus.sport.rugby-league (Usenet):

‘Fair crack of the whip, mate. We′ve had bacon and eggs for a week.’ He coughed noisily. ‘And you expect a man to jump out of bed for bacon and bloody eggs.’
‘What would sir prefer? Soufflé au Parmesan? Or a swift kick up the backside?’

2011, Peter McAra, The Vintner's Letters, unnumbered page:

“Now, straighten up!” The men shuffled into position.
“Come on, sir!” pleaded one of them.
“Fair crack of the whip mate”, Nugget said.

2011, Michael Lawriwsky, Hard Jacka: The Story of a Gallipoli Legend, unnumbered page:

fair suck of the sauce bottle
fair suck of the sauce bottle

(Australia, colloquial, informal) Fair go, fair suck of the sauce bottle; used as an appeal for reasonableness.


nanu-nanu

From the 1978 US television show Mork & Mindy, where it was used as an alien greeting.
Originally said by Oscar-Jack Klugman on "The Odd Couple" in the episode "Psychic, Shmychic" in 1972.
from Sanskrit; nanu surely (nanu; vocative particle, implying kindness or reproach or perplexity)


jings

Jings! This blizzard is no place for a wee bucket boy! If I'm not careful I'll slip and —

2023, A. C. MacDonald, Twistwood Tales (comic), Andrews McMeel, →ISBN, page 23:


waly

O waly, waly, but love be bonnie

(archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) An exclamation of grief.


attagal

Alteration of girl into gal, in attagirl.

(idiomatic, colloquial) Alternative spelling of attagirl


ticktack

A wild young fellow coming home late one night, heard, while he was putting the key into the lock, something on the ground that continually went ticktack, ticktack, ticktack. Stooping down he found it was a silver watch[…]

1852, Northern Mythology: Volume 3, page 206:

Damn the thing, why didn't it stop – with its monotonous ticktack; ticktack; ticktack – he could feel it inside his head where it seemed to strike innumerable little blows, on a strained chord it was bent on snapping.

1901, George Brown, The House With the Green Shutters:


flipping Nora

Synonym of bloody Nora (slightly milder than it).


todah rabah

First attested in 1969; from Hebrew תּוֹדָה רַבָּה (todá rabá, “thank you very much”).

bor

תּוֹדָה רַבָּה

My warmest ties are with the young people and my friends at Gonen. // Todah rabah, and Shalom.

1969, Gertrude Samuels, The Secret of Gonen, page viii:

(in Jewish cultures) Thank you; many thanks.


sleep tight

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The word tight is sometimes explained as here meaning “well, soundly”. However, it can just as well be interpreted in its literal sense of “firm, fast”; compare fast asleep.

"Thank you for washing the dishes."
"Goodnight, Mr Smith.
"Goodnight, Miss Martin. Sleep tight."
Miss Martin's door closes. Hear her light switch on.
Smith locking latches on doors and windows. Turning off the faint music on the vast radio. The light out under Miss Martin's door.

1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), pages 138, 139:

A farewell said shortly before going to bed; usually said between family members or good friends.


musha

—Musha, God be with them times! said the old man. There was some life in it then.

Och! musha bedad, man alive, but it's a fine counthry over here, and it bangs all the jewel of a view we do be havin' from the windys, begorra!

1901, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Penelope's Irish Experiences:

When her neighbour, Mrs. Ryan, looked in, she could not forbear mentioning the expected call, and was further elated because Mrs. Ryan at once remarked: "Sure, 'twill be Bessy he's after," though she herself, of course, disclaimed the idea, saying: "Och musha, ma'am, not at all."

1895, Barlow Jane, Strangers at Lisconnel:

Well, here now, here's five hogs to begin with; and, musha, but I never thought I'd be spending my loose change that way.'

1841, Charles Lever, Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2):

(Ireland, archaic) an expression of surprise

(Ireland) an expression of sympathy. Also often used ironically


shame, shame

Sir William: No, there are still many things, and I cannot emphasize this too strongly, not on top of other things. I myself, on my way here this evening, saw a thing that was not on top of another thing in any way.
Other members: Shame, shame!

1970, “The Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus:

You must believe it whether you will or no—for tis true, that neither the Marquis, nor any one of his family are in possession of any place under, or any pension from the State. (Great tumult, and cries of "Shame! Shame!")

1831, The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend:

I condemn the content of this speech; Expression of admonishment or disgust at the content of a speech.


pardie

From Middle English parde, from Anglo-Norman pardi, pardeu, and Old French pardeu, from par (“by”) + Deu (“God”).

Yet notwithſtandyng all this geare, / thou cougheſt ſtill, perdy / Ye are a craftie knaue, you cough / to fare deliciouſly.

1577, Martial, “Epigrammes out of Martial. [To Parthenope.]”, in Timothe Kendall, transl., Flowers of Epigrammes […], [Manchester]: […] [Charles Simms] for the Spenser Society, published 1874, →OCLC, pages 56–57:

“Perdy,” (said Britomart) “the choise is hard; / But what reward had he that overcame?”

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

“Pardy,” return’d the king, “but still / My joints are somewhat stiff or so. / My lord, and shall we pass the bill / I mention’d half an hour ago?”

1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 157:


no fear

The opposing senses of the interjection derive from the phrase functioning as an ellipsis of both have no fear ("be assured") and there is no fear of that happening ("it's impossible").

Mary Austin (1918) The Trail Book: “"No fear," he said. "Every man will know his own when I come to the Council."”

You want me to handle it? No fear.

Synonym of never fear: no worries, don't worry.

M. R. James (1904) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary: “"Why, did you show him up some rot?"
"No fear," he said.”

Dorothy L. Sayers (1947) Creed or Chaos: “Q: Will thou be baptized in this faith?
A: No fear!”

Toad: You should take up swimming!
Rabbit: No fear, toad!

1992, The Animals of Farthing Wood, episode 2:

You're afraid I would handle it? No fear.

(British, dated) Synonym of no way: absolutely not.


puh-lease

Puh-lease! I went to a bar mitzvah once. That doesn't make me Jewish.

1997, Don Roos, The Opposite of Sex, spoken by Lucia (Lisa Kudrow):

(sarcastic) An expression of annoyance or impatience.


ooh-ah-ah

/ˈʔuːˌʔɑːˌʔɑː/

onomatopoeic

Imitative

(onomatopoeia) Synonym of oo oo aa aa (“used to represent the sound of a monkey's cry”)


bakaw

Saying this in the nicest way possible.... BAKAW BUK BUK BACAW

2000 January 10, NetGuy [username], “Re: Hello Guys!!”, in alt.romance.teen (Usenet):

She's just a big chicken.
 Bawk, bawk, bakaw!

2002 April 27, Jim Larson, “Re: (spoilers ahoy!) okay well I've given up”, in alt.tv.farscape (Usenet):

The one-eyed butcher's stall, with its buckets of guts and crates of eggs, stood before me. I could see the one-eyed butcher perched behind a massive chopping block, swiftly hacking away.
BAWK! BAWK! BA-KAW!

2012, Wai Chin, Chook Chook: Mei's Secret Pets, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN:


pugh

"Pugh!" says Sophia. "There! no, no: what should he do there? He is gone before this time, to be sure. Besides, why—what—why should you go to see? besides, I want you for something else. Go, fetch me my hat and gloves. I shall walk with my aunt in the grove before dinner."

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

(archaic) Alternative form of pooh: an expression of contempt, disgust, etc.


send her down Hughie

Hughie (“diminutive of Hugh, a male given name”) is a god of rain, addressed as an ordinary person.

All night it poured down but Dinny grinned and applauded.
‘Send her down, Hughie!’ he cried, as the diggers used to on Coolgardie and Hannans.

1948, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Golden Miles, page 425:

The wind was bucking round to the west and heavy rain had started again.
“Send her down, Hughie!” he said under his breath, thinking with satisfaction of the soil being gouged out of Sunderland′s paddock and carried off into the rising river.

1970, Colin Thiele, Labourers in the Vineyard, page 229:

‘Ah, that′s it, send her down, Hughie!’ he yelled at the sky.
‘Hughie?’
‘The rain, my darlin'. Hughie sends down the rain.’
‘You mean God?’ she asked, shocked. Aunt Ann was firm about not taking the Lord′s name in vain.
‘Nah. Hughie′s just ... Hughie.[…]’

2010, Jackie French, A Waltz for Matilda:

(Australia) An appeal for continued rain, invoked when it comes after a long drought.


ay me

Ay me, it is my husband.

c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

Ay-me, to whom did I reserve, to discover that singular and loving affection, which in my soule I bare unto him?

Ay me! they little know / How dearly I abide that boast so vain[…].

1667, John Milton, “Book LXXXIX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 76-77:

(now archaic) Expressing grief, sorrow etc.


wisha

From Irish mhuise, originally a euphemism for A Mhuire! (“O Mary!”) in calling upon the Virgin Mary. Compare Irish muise.

'Wisha! wisha,' says I. 'A pound of chops,' says he, 'coming into the Mansion House.'


whoof

Whoof! whoof! its steaming breath hissed at her.

1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 5:

The sound of a steam train, steam boat, etc.


wough

As it scrambled swiftly over the edge it caught sight of the elephant and with a deep "wough!" charged straight at it.

The trapper shouted and waved his cap; whereupon, to his amazement, the bear uttered a loud "wough" and charged straight down on him--only to fall a victim to misplaced boldness.

1884, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches:

Bough wough, The watch dogs bark, Bough wough, Hark, hark!

1863, Various, The Children's Garland from the Best Poets:


my certie

Weel, lassie, walk ye by the burn, And walk ye slow and sly; My certie! weel ye ken the gate That Geordie Young comes by!

1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI:

Englishmen, for instance, will say that I am a bad speller, and that my language is kittle; and such of the Irishers as can read, will be threaping that I have abused their precious country; but, my certie, instead of blaming me for letting out what I could not deny, they must just learn to behave themselves better when they come to see us, or bide at home.

1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch:


more power to your elbow

/mɔː ˈpaʊə tʊ jə ˈɛlbəʊ/

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/mɔɹ ˈpaʊɚ tʊ jɚ ˈɛlboʊ/

Possibly an elaboration of more power to you, with the speaker expressing the wish that the person addressed will have more strength to achieve their goal.

Naturally the forms of traction occupy Mr. [Geoffrey] Freeman Allen much of his time and he sits on no fence here; he is an "electrifier", with good reasons advanced—more power to his elbow.

1959 May, G. F. Fiennes (reviewer), “New Reading on Railways: British Railways Today and Tomorrow. By G. Freeman Allen. Ian Allan. 25s.”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 271:

(British) Used to express admiration of a person coupled with wishes for their continued success in an endeavour of their own choosing: all the best; good luck.


bammo

Bammo! I did it!

An exclamatory indication of excitement or victory, for example when having completed a difficult task, or won something.


happy trails

Happy trails, Hans.

1988, Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza, Die Hard, spoken by John McClane (Bruce Willis):

Well, happy trails. Give me a call when you get back.

An' if it's a choice between my life an' yours, or the lives of everybody that happens to be wherever you're plannin' on crashin' this thing, then...well, happy trails to ya!

2012, Christopher Poole, Hero Town, page 234:

An expression of good wishes for somebody departing for a voyage or for an indefinite period of time: best wishes, good luck.


huh-uh

"You could take my horse and herd a couple for me, if we have to—"
"Huh-uh," said South Boy in decisive negation. "That'd be worse than herding weanlings."

1994, Charles L. McNichols, Crazy Weather, page 160:


zip-a-dee-doo-dah

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From a song in the Disney movie Song of the South, from “O Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day”, chorus to an old minstrel song “Zip Coon” popularized by George Washington Dixon

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay, / My oh my, what a wonderful day / Plenty of sunshine headin' my way / Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay

1946, “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah”, Ray Gilbert (lyrics), Allie Wrubel (music):

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! What a treat this movie was for kids and adults alike.

1990 March, Susan Sackett, The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits, New York: Billboard Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 60:

If the newspapers and broadcasts are blaring “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-a/My, oh my, what a wonderful day” over and over, there’s a tendency to go down the road humming that tune, too, because you can’t get it out of your head. Are business conditions good? Zip-a-dee-doo-dah!

2000, Jim Hightower, If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OL:

"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," Kate said. "This is better." She held her half-empty glass up.

2004 March 17, Donley Watt, Dancing With Lyndon, Fort Worth: TCU Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 135:


kerwham

A wham; a sound of a powerful collision.


kersplosh

splosh: sound of something heavy falling into liquid


cool story bro

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“Hey, Eddie. I gotta ask you. I see these T-Shirts, too, they say ‘Cool Story, Bro.’ What's that mean?” “If someone tells you a shitty story, then you respond ironically, ‘Cool story, bro,’ to their really not cool story.” “Cool story, bro,” he said with a smile. “Loser,” I said as I pushed him.

2016, Eddie Huang, Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China, Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, page 155:

(Internet slang, colloquial) Used to dismiss a comment perceived as boring or pointless, or refute an anecdote that one considers difficult to believe.


soho

Proteus: Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out.
Launce: Soho, soho!
Proteus: What seest thou?
Launce: Him we go to find […]

c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

He then began to beat about, in the same language and in the same manner as if he had been beating for a hare; and at last cried out, "Soho! Puss is not far off. Here's her form, upon my soul; I believe I may cry stole away."

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

(obsolete) ho; halloo; a word used in calling from a distant place.


From Internet forums such as Slashdot that allow users to vote for or against a comment, increasing or decreasing its score by one.

(Internet slang) Used to signify agreement with the comment to which one is replying.


gorry

She hedn't any particular kind of a nose nor mouth nor eyes, but gorry! when she looked at yer, yer felt kind as if yer was turnin' to putty inside."

1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin (Riggs), The Village Watch-Tower:

"By gorry!" says I; "you're right.

1912, Gouverneur Morris, IT and Other Stories:

No mollycoddle swain am I. I shall not sit and pine, by gorry!

1920, Franklin P. Adams, Something Else Again:


grassy ass

"Grassy-ass, amigos! Mooch-ass grassy-ass!" Ha ha, de nada, jefe

1977, Robert Coover, The public burning, page 20:

2007, Louis Gerard Mendoza, Toni Marie Nelson Herrera, Telling tongues: a Latin@ anthology on language experience, link
Grassy ass Maggie.

The joke “Grassy-Ass” for “Gracias” (diversely realized in images on humorous greeting cards

2011, Jane H. Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism, page 140:


good-bye

“I can’t come back, my dear,” called Oz from the basket. “Good-bye!” / “Good-bye!” shouted everyone, and all eyes were turned upward to where the Wizard was riding in the basket, rising every moment farther and farther into the sky.

1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “How the Balloon was Launched”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, pages 207–208:


ough

"Ough! ough! ough!" groaned the old woman; "he wants to go, away from the nest where he was warmed, and nursed, and brought up.

1856, John Esten Cooke, The Last of the Foresters:

We strove to extort from him the cause of this ebullition of passion, but he only shook his head in reply to our questions, and uttered a guttural "ough."

1874, H. S. Caswell, The Path of Duty, and Other Stories:

Ough! A door opened, a white-haired secretarial head, but wearing a compassionate expression, appeared, and a skinny forefinger beckoned me into the sanctuary.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:


perdy

Yet notwithſtandyng all this geare, / thou cougheſt ſtill, perdy / Ye are a craftie knaue, you cough / to fare deliciouſly.

1577, Martial, “Epigrammes out of Martial. [To Parthenope.]”, in Timothe Kendall, transl., Flowers of Epigrammes […], [Manchester]: […] [Charles Simms] for the Spenser Society, published 1874, →OCLC, pages 56–57:

“Perdy,” (said Britomart) “the choise is hard; / But what reward had he that overcame?”

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


bazinga

Hollywood A.D.
Sheldon Cooper
The Big Bang Theory

Probably from zing. Appears to originate from the X-Files season 7 episode "Hollywood A.D." Popularized as the catchphrase of the character Sheldon Cooper on the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

Once again, you’ve fallen for one of my classic pranks. Bazinga!

2009 May 11, “The Monopolar Expedition”, in The Big Bang Theory, season 2, episode 23, spoken by Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), via CBS:

Exclamation indicating a successful trick or prank.

Go back to the iPod app on your iOS device and click on the “More” tab. There you will see a new heading titled “Shared” which lets you choose between your iOS library or any Shared Libraries you have enabled on your WiFi network. Bazinga!

2011 March 8, Keller Mike, “How To Enable iTunes Home Sharing in iOS 4.3”, in PCWorld, →ISSN, retrieved 2012-06-22:

I have never gotten anything less than an A- when poster board is involved. So — bazinga! I'd make a poster of the life and times of Markie's family. Guaranteed to melt his parents' hearts.

2012, Paulsen, Gary, Crush: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Love, Wendy Lamb Books, →ISBN, page 118:

Exclamation indicating a successful outcome or sudden realization.

bingo

So, Marc, as you can see, we don't use the word "pot" very often in stories. But you also see that it is used frequently in headlines. The reason is simple and has nothing to do with a lack of respect for medical marijuana users. When it comes to headlines, size matters, and the word "pot" fits in a lot more places than "marijuana." It's really that simple.
 It would be easy to figure that headline writers just aren't what they used to be, that they've gone to pot, so to speak (bazinga!).

2012 September 1, “Have you ever tried to fit 'mari-juana' in 1 column?”, in Mail Tribune, →ISSN, retrieved 2012-09-27:

Exclamation acknowledging a witty remark.


buh-bye

A spinoff, “Major Crimes,” starring “Battlestar Galactica” veteran Mary McDonnell and a number of “Closer” cast members, premieres in August. Sedgwick won’t be among them, swapping Brenda’s syrupy “thank yew” for an upbeat “buh-bye now” to her co-workers.

2012 July 1, T.L. Stanley, “No more crimes for her to solve”, in Los Angeles Times:

But then he worried that Hasta la vista might come off as glib and dismissive—as in “Buh-bye, I will never come back here again.” So he opted for the more forward-looking “I’ll be back.”

2023 March 8, Mark Leibovich, “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act”, in The Atlantic:


aww yeah

[ɔː˧˧˦ jɛː˨˩ə˩]

Aww yeah, I got a new video game!

(informal, slang, Canada, US) an exclamation of excitement or joy


you'll never guess

(idiomatic) I have something very surprising to say; you won't be able to guess what I'm about to say.


not for the world

Would you like to go for dinner with me? Not for the world!

I will never see that movie again. Not for the world!

(idiomatic) Absolutely not; under no circumstances. A defiant no.


no chance

You want to borrow three hundred dollars? No chance!

I will never again eat that stuff. No chance!

(idiomatic) Absolutely not; under no circumstances.


look here

Look here! That's enough!

Now look here! I want you all to stop and sit down


lorks

[...] immediately upon his entrance, they straightway rose, to a woman, and each, with alarm in her countenance, ejaculated, " Oh lorks!"

1849, E. P. Roswell, “A Story about an Execution”, in Ainsworth's Magazine, volume 16, page 31:

(UK, euphemistic, dated) oh dear, oh my God.


'ullo

At that moment Freddie Jones rolled up with two overloaded plates of Pavlova. ‘’ullo my darlings; brought you some sweet.’

1988, Jilly Cooper, chapter 11, in Rivals, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 106:


peek-a-boo

So he took a deep breath, popped up with a six gun in each hand, and said, “Peek-a-boo!” as he opened up at point blank range with both of them!

1981, Ramsay Thorne (pseudonym; Lou Cameron), Citadel of Death (Renegade; 11), New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 90:

One of the shooters looked under a desk and found 17-year-old Kacey Ruegsegger cowering there. He said “Peek-a-boo” and shot her at nearly point-blank range.

2000, Gregory K. Moffatt, “Homicide by Children, Part II: Columbine”, in Blind-Sided: Homicide Where It Is Least Expected, Westport, Conn., London: Praeger, →ISBN, page 151:

Daniel started playing peek-a-boo with his son, who was using Ayse’s dark hair as a hiding place. The boy laughed every time Daniel would surprise him, saying, “peek-a-boo,” as he did.

2003, Charles Sobczak, A Choice of Angels, Sanibel Island, Fla.: Indigo Press LLC, →ISBN, page 325:


absit omen

Borrowed from Latin absit omen (“may what is said not come true”, literally “may omen be absent”).

bor

Now it was very obvious we should require a much stronger Navy in the event of war, say with France and Russia—absit omen—if we were obliged to maintain our flag in the Mediterranean, than if we were to withdraw from the Mediterranean.

1895 March 18, Henry Labouchere, SUPPLY—NAVY ESTIMATES, 1895–6. Hansard HC Deb vol 31 c.1295

It was only after the younger branch annexed the elder in 679 that Tsin became powerful and began to expand; and it was only when a policy of "home rule" and disintegration set in, involving the splitting up of Tsin's orthodox power into three royal states of doubtful orthodoxy, that China fell a prey to Ts'in ambition. Absit omen to us.

1908, Edward Harper Parker, chapter XXII, in Ancient China Simplified, Chapman & Hall:

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
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yeah-huh

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(colloquial) Yes; an expression of affirmation.


mox nix

An alteration of German macht nichts (“doesn't matter”) that originated among American soldiers stationed in Germany after World War II.

When they want to do something, they do it! Whether we've funded it, whether we'll support it—mox nix. They do it!

1969, Creighton Abrams, “1969”, in Lewis Sorley, editor, Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968–1972, published 2004, →ISBN, page 330:

1983, Ian Skidmore, Forgive Us Our Press Passes, →ISBN, page 21:

No, I get it. Small matter. Mox nix.

2005, James Carroll, Secret Father: A Novel, →ISBN, page 264:

I thought it resembled me more than Hartwick but mox nix—it was ours.

2011, Ritch Gaiti, Tweet: One Guy Can't Change the World—Good Thing that Glebe Didn't Know That, →ISBN, page 73:

(dated, slang) it doesn't matter; no worries


blooey

"We were heading for a school dance at Cincinnati and she was boiling along like she was in orbit when blooey she just quit."

1963 February, Rick Raphael, “Code Three”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact:

Exclamation representing an explosion or abrupt occurrence.


good riddance to bad rubbish

/ˌɡʊd ˈɹɪd(ə)ns tə ˌbæd ˈɹʌbɪʃ/

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/ˌɡʊd ˈɹɪdns tə ˌbæd ˈɹʌbɪʃ/

Possibly an elaboration of good riddance, contrasting the word good with bad, and using the word rubbish to form an alliteration with riddance.

“Franklin quit today.”   “Well, good riddance to bad rubbish!”

And the pedlar takes the devil! ha, ha, ha!—Good riddance to bad rubbish.

1838, [Richard Brinsley Peake], “The Bottle Imp”, in Benjamin [Nottingham] Webster, editor, The Acting National Drama, […], volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, act II, scene iii, page 23:

"A good riddance of bad rubbish!" said that wrathful old lady. "Get along with you, or I'll have you carried out!"

[1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “A Separation”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 438:

"Mrs. Grimes, you are so good—but how can I sleep when poor Peter is at home by himself dead drunk?" / "Why, he is as happy as a lord mayor." / "But the house might take fire!" / "If it should, it wouldn't matter much if he went with it—good riddance to bad rubbish, say I!"

1853, A[nna] Maria Collins, chapter 4, in Mrs. Ben Darby: Or The Weal and Woe of Social Life, 2nd edition, Cincinnati, Oh.: Moore, Anderson, Wilstach & Keys, […], →OCLC, page 35:

"I'd rather stay in an asylum all my life than go back to that man," said Aunt Lois. / "Wal, you see she did n't," said Sam; "her friends they made him make a settlement on her, poor woman, and he cleared out t' England." / "Good riddance to bad rubbish," said my grandmother.

1869, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Wedding After-talks at Oldtown”, in Oldtown Folks, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 573:

"Well, he didn't do much work," admitted the deacon. / "While he ate enough for two boys. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say."

1875, Horatio Alger, Jr., “Sam Takes French Leave”, in The Young Outlaw: Or, Adrift in the Streets (Tattered Tom, Second Series; 2), Philadelphia, Pa., Chicago, Ill.: The John C. Winston Co., →OCLC, page 87:

It's good riddance to bad rubbish, but it's likely to make trouble for me yet.

1903 November 27, [Francis Worcester Doughty], “The Bradys and Brady the Banker; or, The Secret of the Old Santa Fe Trail”, in Secret Service. Old and Young King Brady, Detectives, number 253, New York, N.Y.: Frank Tousey, →OCLC, chapter I (The Bradys and Mr. Brady), page 3, column 1:

"She's left." / "Yes, I know. Drink some coffee." / "She's left." / Tod knew that he put a great deal of faith in sayings, so he tried one. / "Good riddance to bad rubbish."

1939, Nathanael West, “The Day of the Locust”, in The Complete Works of Nathanael West, London: Picador in association with Secker & Warburg, published 1983, →ISBN, chapter 24, page 398:

It's not likely any folks here'd stop him going, is it? Good riddance to bad rubbish is what I say.

1999, Ruth Rendell, chapter 8, in Harm Done, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 115:

Miraculously, Mrs Dooley had brought us a box of eggs. ‘You must be psychic!’ my ma said, showing her the broken ones in the bin. ‘Good riddance to bad rubbish,’ Mrs Dooley said.

2008, Kate Thompson, chapter 4, in Creature of the Night (A Definitions Book), London: Random House Children’s Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 11:

So the lost sheep must have been an exceedingly troublesome old rogue and many shepherds would probably have sighed with relief that that one had disappeared and said with considerable relief, ‘Good riddance to bad rubbish.’ But the Good Shepherd refuses to give up on the recalcitrant one.

2014, Desmond Tutu, “You are Loved”, in In God’s Hands: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2015, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, page 78:

Used to indicate that one welcomes the departure of someone or something: good riddance!


zooterkins

Embellished form of zounds, gadzooks. Reputedly from the 17th century.

They hold us all to be heretics." "Zooterkins."

1993, Judith French, Fortune's Mistress, page 71:

Allegro seemed shocked. "Zooterkins! What has happened to this era of young folk?"

2003, Gloria Harchar, Kissed by Magic, page 21:

6/8/2008, The Medway Handyman (username), "Re:Timber basics article", uk.d-i-y
Ah. Someone else with a love of English!
Zooterkins!


fee-faw-fum

A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres.


shucky ducky

Coined by comedian Cecil "Shuckey Duckey" Armstrong.

"Aww, shucky ducky quack-quack," Imani crooned, turning to exchange a high-five with me. "We were good! No, as Nia would say, off the chain!"

2003 August 1, Suzette D. Harrison, When Perfect Ain't Possible, Washington, DC: BET Publications, →ISBN, →OL, page 90:

They are so good, that when you look at them, all you can do is say "Shucky Ducky Quack Quack! My Crew Is ALL THAT!!!"

2008, A'ric Jackson, 5 Things Your Guidance Counselor Didn't Tell You, Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 52:

Tryin' to git on the beam, huh? With them li'l singin' earrings on them li'l squashed-down ears! Aw shucky ducky, now! Look at chu!

2008 September 1, Jacqueline F. Wheelock, “Blue's Holiday”, in Charline R. McCord, Judy H. Tucker, editors, Christmas Stories from the South's Best Writers, Gretna: Pelican, →ISBN, →OL, page 119:

(slang) Phrase indicating disappointment or excitement.


kerrang

The sound of a power chord on an electric guitar.


dammy

"[…] I've seen plenty of grand dinners in my time," he said, "and dined, by Jove, in a company where there was a king and royal duke at top and bottom, and every man along the table had six stars on his coat: but dammy, Glanders, this finery don't suit me […]"

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:


to heel

Fido! Come back here! To heel!

An order to an animal, by its master, not to stray far from him.


shock horror

The identity of the secretive street artist has been outed by a Sunday newspaper and, shock horror, he's middle class.

2008 July 14, Francesca Gavin, The Guardian:

The bulk of Castro's Secrets argues […] that Castro was aware that Lee Harvey Oswald was going to try to kill Kennedy in Dallas and (shock horror) did not warn the US authorities, ‘the most despicable decision during his nearly five decades in power’.

2012, Hugh Bicheno, “Spies of the Caribbean”, in Literary Review, section 401:

(now chiefly ironic) An expression of amazement at something controversial.


tirralirra

The lark, that tirra-lyra chants,

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

From the bank, and from the river, / He flashed into the crystal mirror, / "Tirra lirra, tirra lirra," / Sang Sir Launcelot.

1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, part the third, page 15:

A verbal imitation of a musical sound, such as of the note of a lark or a horn.


what is this I don't even

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The run-on and fragmentary structure of this phrase is presumably intended to mimic literally being rendered speechless.

My own personal hell came to pass on January 18th, 2012: Reddit and Wikipedia went offline. Yes, the point was to raise awareness about the intrusive, unjust Stop Online Piracy act. And yes, the blackout was politically influential and reached millions over a period of twelve hours…but what was I supposed to do? Play in the snow? Actually talk to humans in real life? What is this I don't even.

2012, Michael Kaemingk, "SOPA bill fails to address actual piracy issues", The Spectator (Seattle University), 25 January 2012

(Internet slang) Used to indicate that something has left one in a state of disbelief or confusion.


hey ho

oh well; a usually light-hearted dismissal or acceptance of a troublesome situation


good bye

“But she will be gained by some one else. And if that some one should be the very he whom, of all others, I could least bear—But I will not stay to rob myself of all your compassionate good-will, by shewing that where I have most injured I can least forgive. Good bye,—God bless you!” And with these words, he almost ran out of the room.

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 185–186:

He promised to communicate with me, when anything befel him; and he slung his bag about him, took his hat and stick, and bade us both “Good bye!”

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “The Beginning of a Long Journey”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 334:

“If ever you need us again,” she said, “come out into the field and call, and we shall hear you and come to your assistance. Good bye!” / “Good bye!” they all answered, and away the Queen ran, while Dorothy held Toto tightly lest he should run after her and frighten her.

1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Queen of the Field Mice”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 106:


now then

Now then, what shall we do?

Used to move or return to another subject of discussion.

Now then, don't hit your brother!

Now then, John, what you up to?


be careful

simplicity and commonness. be careful (canonical)

Used to warn someone to proceed with caution.

较细腻

khà sòe-lī / khah sòe-lī / khah sè-jī / khah sòe-jī

较斟酌咧

khà chim-chiok-lé / khà chim-chiok-lér / khà chim-chiok-le̍h / khah chim-chiok-le̍h / khah chim-chiok-leh / khah chim-chiok-teh / khah chim-chiak-teh


wickup

An onomatopoeic representation of the chirp of certain species of flickers.


go wonder

Go wonder! It did work after all.

How many of the stormtrooper shots actually hit something other than walls? Foor example the scene in TNH just after freeing princess Leia from the cell and before the carbage dump escape : there are at least several squads of storm troopers against the four escapees. Many storm troopers are left dead or wounded after firefight, but no shots hit the heroes.. Go wonder..

1997 May 30, Mikko V.I. Parviainen, “Star Trek VS Star Wars (Scenarios)”, in alt.tv.star-trek.ds9 (Usenet):

I guess in your small world, multiple posts mean something? Go wonder!!!

1999 November 17, “joan...@gionline.net is a piece of crap!”, in alt.support.divorce (Usenet):

2000, Henrik, “HP48GX display fixed itself - hmm, go wonder?? ;-)))”, in comp.sys.hp48 (Usenet):

His info shows him as still under SP1. Go wonder particularly since I have a home LAN set up and both computers access the internet through the same router.

2004 August 24, “XP2 out early for me”, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (Usenet):

Expression of amusement over apparently unexpected but predictable result.


toho

"Toho!" shouted Duncan, holding up his hand, and the old dog, to my great surprise, imitated Don's action at once, he became cataleptic and rigid also.

1877, George Rooper, The fox at home; and other tales, page 90:

(obsolete) tallyho (used to urge on a fox hunt)


ara ara

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(Internet slang) Used to express admiration.


hilloa

"Hilloa, brother," quoth [Friar] Tuck, "let me aid thee." So saying, he took the key from the other's hand and quickly opened the door with a turn of it.

1883, Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood Compasseth the Marriage of Two True Lovers”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part fourth, page 146:

As for Dick, he looked at her admiringly a while, and then said at last: "Well, Clara, I do wish we were there! But, hilloa! we are getting back way."

1890, William Morris, chapter XXII, in News from Nowhere:

'Ah,' muttered Todd to himself, 'I like boys of a religious turn. They are much easier managed, for the imagination in such cases has been cultivated at the expense of the understanding. Hilloa, who have we here?'

1847, James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest, chapter 32, in The String of Pearls:


flargh

(Internet slang) Used to express fatigue and general lethargy.


bzz

onom

Imitative


shough

Shough, shough, up to your coop, Pea-Hen.

1623, John Fletcher, William Rowley, The Maid in the Mill, page Act 5, scene 1:


full steam ahead

full speed ahead
full speed ahead#English


get to fuck

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) Go away!; Fuck off!

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) Expression of disagreement and/or disbelief.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, to, fuck.


what you saying

Dushane: What you sayin'? Wagwan.

(MLE, MTE, slang) what's up, what's happening (a greeting)


rrah

Struhsaker has recorded at least five different distress calls by infant vervets related to mother-infant separation. As the distance between mother and infant increases the "rrah" call changes to "eee" or "rrr" with an increase in intensity.

1983, William C. Stebbins, The Acoustic Sense of Animals, page 140:

Even the impressive vervet monkey has only thirty-six distinct vocal sounds in its repertoire. […] An infant separated from its mother gives the lost rrah cry.

2011, Jean Aitchison, The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, page 25:

A cry uttered by an infant vervet when separated from its mother.


alack and alas

An idiom combining a pair of terms with similar meaning. The first syllable in each word is like a sigh; las is from Old French meaning weariness; and lack is from Middle English meaning loss.


jiminy cricket

Alternative letter-case form of Jiminy Cricket


crimony

"Crimony, honey, would you get the dog outta here?

2004, Tim Nyberg, The Practical Joker's Handbook, →ISBN, page 71:

"Jake, do you realize this is Sunday?" Mitch asked.
"Holy crimony, you're right. And, we left this morning without as much as a prayer of thanks for the shelter from the rain."

2008, Carol Huff, Groffrey Soil and Finley Petticoats, →ISBN, page 169:

"Crimony!" Matthew griped as he bent over and tried to breath.

2008, Carolyn Hart Bennett, Seven Sisters: The Voyage, →ISBN, page 169:

For crimony sakes (again..?...look it up) grown men let punks rule their streets.

2009, Eric Ellis Brown, Best Laid Plans:

Holy crimony, these guys are the next wave.

2009, Harvey Kubernik, Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon, →ISBN, page 67:

HOW does that much air get in my body?! Crimony!

2010, *Michelle Smith, Taboo Secrets of Pregnancy: A Guide to Life With a Belly, →ISBN, page 2:


body of me

When it had settled, the youth, his head turned over his shoulder, his small dark red eyes half closed, heard Barquentine say: 'So you can call the dogs off! Body of me, if it isn't time! Time and enough. Nine days wasted! […]

"Body of me," said Tirian. "That is better. I feel a true man again."


yallo

He answered with his usual detached inflection, “Yallo.”

2012, Ann J. Colby, Cross Town Murders, page 378:

“Yallo,” his boss drawled and Seth could picture the man kicked back in his recliner, beer in hand, watching a repeat of some golden oldie sitcom on TV.

2011, Mari Carr, Jayne Rylon, Southern Comfort, page 52:

A country-boy Texas drawl, similar to Quelldon's own, spilled back from wherever the call terminated. “Yallo.” There was a small cough, then the voice repeated the mispronounced greeting. “Yallo? Anybody there?”

2004, John Powell III, Hunter And Hunted, page 440:

A variant of hello, often associated with accents in the southern United States.


God bless

Coordinate term: goodbye

Near-synonyms: God love (someone or something), good luck

Goodbye, and God bless!

God bless you: a short prayer for the recipient, or a nonliteral well-wishing benediction or valediction culturally inspired by such prayer and thematically concordant with it.


look at you

Ooh, look at you in your new suit!

(sometimes derogatory) Sarcastically drawing attention to somebody's appearance or behaviour.


trufax

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Altered spelling of true facts, equivalent to tru- + fax (“facts”).

>I'm also annoyed that they seem to be turning Captain Jack completely gay.
Trufax. That's all I've got to say.

2007 December 15, The Exiled, V.2 [username], “Re: What's wrong with Cardiff?”, in alt.gothic (Usenet):

> Reason #77 why the Alabama is better than up there: You can buy a new car
> and it won't be rusted out in three years.
Trufax. Eddie's pitiful little Geo Metro is rusted through on the undercarriage, and of course it's illegal to fix the frame of a car because it makes Baby Jesus cry or something.

2008 February 18, Stacia, “Re: ALSO HELPFUL NEIGHBORS MAY SUCK IT”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):

(Note: most 19th century American politicians did not call their friends filthy English atheists. Trufax.)

2009 October 28, The Black Marvel [username], “Re: Charles David Conducts the Underground Railroad”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet):

(Internet slang) An emphatic statement of agreement or affirmation.


give me strength

Exclamation of long-suffering dismay or disgust.


JFC

Jesus fucking Christ
Jesus Christ#Interjection

(Internet slang) Initialism of Jesus fucking Christ.


don't I know it

"Here's your shirt," said Slippery. "Make it snappy, we're late."
"Don't I know it," replied the Owl, emerging from the closet with his dinner jacket and vest[…]

(informal) I know; I am very familiar with it (some stated fact).


oxi

Based on the typographic similarity to the Greek όχι (óchi).

But the Greek archaeological committee met on the site, looked at our plans, and said, "Oxi, we will not approve anything that looks like the Roman approach to this sacred Greek temple."

1961, Report of the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings:

Whereas in 1945, the mainland Greeks said OXI to foreign troops entering their country, in 2004 the GCs were saying OXI to foreign troops leaving their country.

2008, Harry Anastasiou, The Broken Olive Branch: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and the Quest for Peace in Cyprus. Volume Two, Nationalism Versus Europeanization, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 150:

Buoyed by the no vote in the Greek referendum, anti-austerity campaigners across Britain are to stage “Oxi to Osborne” protests on Wednesday against cuts the UK chancellor is expected to announce in his budget.

2015 July 7, Matthew Weaver, “"Oxi to Osborne": UK campaigners take Greek inspiration in budget protests”, in The Guardian:


ja well no fine

From Afrikaans ja (“yes”) followed by English words, with echoes of Afrikaans ja nee (literally "yes no"), which in various contexts signals either whole-hearted or uncertain, possibly politely dissenting, agreement.

But his meteorology was all wrong as was his notion of agricultural practice in Natal and Zululand. The misty hills do not willingly nourish and nurture the human species any more than bongols willingly drag loads uphill for it. Ja well no fine, so I agree that it does drizzle here too.

1998, Harold Strachan, Way up, way out, page 88:

Ja, well, no, fine. After reading that opaque bureau-speak, I know what I want a portion of and it's not Coke.

2002, Stephen Mulholland, Another voice II, page 168:

[…] he took everyone's hands and he said, what was past was past, everyone must roll up their sleeves and look to the future now. Treppie said, ja, well, no fine, with or without rolled-up sleeves, but he wasn't so sure about Marike. She looked even more like a missionary in Africa now with that bandaged hat […]

2004, Marlene Van Niekerk, Leon De Kock, Triomf, page 522:

(South Africa) Variously expressing ridicule, irony, indifference, boggling, or ambivalence, possibly in combination, depending on tone and context.


is it

- It's ten o'clock already.

- Is it?

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see is, it.

- I'm feeling tired.

- Is it?

2007, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, "Thou Shalt Always Kill" on Angles
Thou shalt not express your shock at the fact that Sharon got off with Brad at the club last night by saying "is it?"

"I mean what now - the bet is cancelled but they are both going to ask her, is it?"

2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 187:

(Canada, South Africa, India, MLE, MTE) really? is that so?


laduma

From Zulu laduma, literally "it thunders".

Soccer advertisements celebrated the new nation — "When all the colours and textures of soccer come together — Laduma! Let's celebrate good times! Come on!"

2010, Anne Kelk Mager, Beer, Sociability, and Masculinity in South Africa, page 59:

(South Africa) goal! (cheer when a goal is scored in football)


jislaaik

From Afrikaans [Term?], of unclear origin.

[…] he asked me to marry him. Jislaaik! I was so delighted!

1999, Kathy A. Perkins, Black South African women: an anthology of plays, page 62:

I know he's writing about Princess. Jislaaik, he loved that chick.

2004, Lord Orford, Margie Orford, Dancing Queen, page 28:

(South Africa) goodness; expressing shock or surprise


eish

You become very happy and forget that eish, when you get home it is then that you remember that you have HIV, but when you are there you are free.

2007, Corinne Squire, HIV in South Africa: Talking About the Big Thing, page 132:

Eish, I can't believe we're back at this.

FCS Integrated English for First Additional Language L3 (page 3)

(South Africa) phew; whew; expressing resignation


ay^

ay^ m8! — Ay up mate!


that's a girl

That is not a boy; that's a girl.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see that, is, a, girl.


goshdangit

Contraction of gosh (“God”, euphemism) + dang (“damn”, euphemism) + it. Compare goshdarnit.


goshdang

(usually humorous) Euphemistic form of goddamn.


furrfu

The word sheesh after rot-13 encoding. Coined on Usenet in the 1990s.

Oh furrfu! I have enough to worry about!

2002, Linz, “miscarrage”, in misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet):

Oh furrfu. Don't come that intuititive^([sic]) shite here, Peter. *Nothing* is completely intuitive, *everything* needs some learning.

2004, Richard P. Grant, “I told you that URLs were vulnerable...”, in uk.comp.sys.mac (Usenet):


pip-pip

Imitative of a short, high sound made by a bicycle or car horn.

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

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


I'll be bound

Well, I'll be bound!! Another example of following the rules and being undercut on pricing by those who don't follow the regs.

2007 June 7, tightenit, “Installation of TMV Valve”, in Screwfix Community:

"Well, I'll be bound," Ruby said with a dreamy sigh.


true dat

"No one would ever think you were born in Paris."
"True dat."

2002, Sheila Copeland, Princess Sister, Sepia/BET Books, →ISBN, page 227:

"And Adam looks a lot like Sean."
"True dat."

2007, Jennifer Echols, The Boys Next Door, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 109:

Penny: I really appreciate you letting me stay here tonight. […] I know it's kind of weird.
Leonard Hofstadter: True dat.
Penny: "True dat?"
Leonard Hofstadter: I've gotten a lot more street since we broke up.

2011 20 January, Bill Prady, Steven Molaro & Eric Kaplan, "The Love Car Displacement", episode 4-13 of The Big Bang Theory, 00:15:19-00:15:33

(slang) An emphatic statement of agreement or affirmation.


heaveno

From hello, substituting heaven for the letters "hell". Coined by Leonso Canales Jr., who lobbied to have it designated the "official greeting" of Kleberg County, Texas, USA in January 1997.


lamesauce

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory) An expression of frustration or disappointment.


spoiler alert

Spoiler alert: The main character, Mark, succumbs to an illness at the end.

An indication, placed in a text, that the plot of a drama is about to be exposed.

alerta de spoiler

an indication, placed in a text, that the plot of a drama is about to be exposed

Spoiler alert, these measures have not proved to be very helpful at mitigating the effects of this crisis.

So you've taken a ship that is big, expensive (and, therefore, only going to be available in small numbers), designed specifically for killing armored cruisers, and made it proof against those armored cruisers, and then, to improve the design, you've turned it into a ship that can be magazine-detonated by those armored cruisers. Spoiler alert: This is not an improvement! This is how you lose ships. For a ship that was designed to kill armored cruisers, the vast majority of last-generation armored cruisers WERE ACTUALLY BETTER-PROTECTED ACROSS THEIR MAGAZINES than Indefatigable was.

2022 February 9, Drachinifel, 59:20 from the start, in Naval Engineering Disasters - How not to design a ship, archived from the original on 2022-09-25:

As we approach the midpoint of the year, it is timely to offer a scorecard on the ministerial achievements towards these aims. And - spoiler alert - it does not make happy reading for the Government.

2023 June 14, Christian Wolmar, “Ministerial report makes depressing reading for the railway”, in RAIL, number 985, page 44:

Indicates that the speaker is about to reveal something unanticipated or unpleasant.

lelövöm a poént

indicates that the speaker is about to reveal something unanticipated or unpleasant


om nom nom

Onomatopoeic, attested 2004, variant of num-num. Originally from the sound Cookie Monster on Sesame Street makes when he eats (from late 1960s/early 1970s), though this was canonically
“un num num num num”, with a ‘u’. Popularized since 2007 in internet use, particularly in meme-based images, especially lolcats and other image macros. See nom for details.

(slang or childish) The sound made while relishing food.


losh

and then he said Chrissie! Tired? and she said Losh, no, and my name's Chris, Ewan.

1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 130:

(Scotland) Expressing surprise, wonder etc.


oh-em-gee

In the dressing room next to her, a young lady yelled to her friend, "Oh-em-gee! I am so fat! I can't fit into these size zeros. Will you go get me a size two?" Seriously, I wanted to crawl under the door of that dressing room and feed the girl a cheeseburger.

2008, Vicki Courtney, 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 17:

"Oh-em-gee!" says Anna with her mouth full. "That is delicious!"

2009, Jodi Della Femina, Sheri McInnis, By Invitation Only, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 192:

"Oh-em-gee," said Perry. Izanagi had their mom pressed up against the car as he kissed her with way too much tongue. "We are your children," she whined. "Just get your sayonaras over with already."

2011, Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles, Razorbill, →ISBN:


oh em gee

Phonetic spelling of the initialism OMG (“oh my God; oh my gosh”).

"What can I say? I'm a fan. Plus, TMZ had pictures and oh em gee, let me tell you — you haven't lived until you've seen Britney Spears in a tiara, falling down drunk and tangled in a mile of silver tulle."

2011, Louisa Edwards, Too Hot to Touch, St. Martin's Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 93:

"Oh em gee," I said, smiling up at him, "did you just use the word sitch?"

2011, Katie Finn, Unfriended, Point, published 2011, →ISBN, page 81:

Kelly pressed his face up against the wall of the box again to get a better look through the portal again. "Oh em gee!" he said aloud after he did.

2011, Mia Tanaka, The Other Place: Book of the Siblings, Xlibris, published 2011, →ISBN, page 87:

(slang) An exclamation of excitement, surprise, amazement, or shock.


Oh Em Gee

[…] and Oh Em Gee the conversations that you have when you have
found them
makes all the searching, worth it…..

2011, Carlos Desmond Davis, Prisms of Thoughts, PublishAmerica, →ISBN:

Being good at math can get you into good schools but it does not — repeat, does NOT — make you smart in any necessarily meaningful way. Ha ha ha. Oh Em Gee.

2012, Karen Rivers, The Encyclopedia of Me, Scholastic, →ISBN:

And I think, Oh Em Gee all these teachers: they're not just old founts of knowledge; they're also the ones that we copy; admire.

2012, P. J. Young, To Be Honest, Autharium Publishing, →ISBN:

Alternative letter-case form of oh em gee


oh my Allah

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see oh, my, Allah.


gods willing

The pious politician knows that, gods willing, one can do anything to man.

1987, Eating of the Gods, →ISBN, page 54:

Used to express hope that gods are willing (to grant one's desires).


thank gods

She rested her elbow on her knee, easy pose, though her heart was hammering away fit to take her breath: thank gods for the incense that masked the sweat.

1986, C. J. Cherryh, chapter 7, in Chanur’s Homecoming, New York: Daw Books, page 167:

There were no docked boats yet, but one was rowing up to the shore, and Taro was in it. Sitting up and unsupported, thank gods. I breathed a deep sigh of relief.

2010, Moira J. Moore, chapter 13, in Heroes Return, New York: Ace Books, page 145:


stuff it

I was going to clean my room, but thought, "Stuff it, nobody's going to see it."

(idiomatic) An expression of indifference or nonchalance.

Stuff it, will you? I'm trying to sleep!


tilly-vally

Sir Toby Belch: My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's
a Peg-a-Ramsey, and 'Three merry men be we.' Am not
I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?
Tillyvally. Lady!

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

(obsolete) Expressing contempt, or rejecting anything trifling or impertinent.


yass

Alteration of yes, with likely influence from pronunciation spelling.

Yass queen, you did that!

(African-American Vernacular, LGBTQ slang) A strong expression of excitement or admiration.

African-American Vernacular; LGBTQ slang; African-American Vernacular; LGBTQ slang


ooyah

'Yeeks! Ooyah!' yelled Willard in agony.

1987, Forrest Wilson, Super Gran on Holiday, page 103:

All I know is that we're moving off down the drive, I'm trying to concentrate on where we're going, but I've got one eye on the mirror, where I can see the old man squirming around on the back seat, when suddenly he shouts "OOYAH!" and starts thrashing about like a fish on a hook!

2011, Mark Simon, Strange Briefs, page 44:


heavens to Betsy

Of unknown origins. Speculated to be a euphemism for hell's bells, but there is not sufficient evidence to support this. Attested from 1857.

"Heavens to Betsy!" he exclaims, clapping his hand to his throat, "I've cut my head off!"

1857 May 1, Frederick W. Saunders, “The Serenade: A Tale of Revenge”, in Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, volume v, number 5, Boston, MA, page 419:

Then there's New Age entrepreneur Deepak Chopra, who, in bis 1989 book Quantum Healing, promises a pathway to curing cancer, reversing aging, and, heavens to Betsy, even immortality.

2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

(chiefly US, dated) Good gracious; good heavens.


butter my butt and call me a biscuit

Butter my butt and call me a biscuit, could you be any more beautiful?

2010, Linda Francis Lee, The Devil in the Junior League: A Novel, →ISBN:

“Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit,” the brunette breathed. “I never saw that one coming.”

2014, Jennifer Lynn, New Prints In Old Calico, →ISBN, page 140:

“Butter my butt and call me a biscuit,” said Simon. He stared at Zoey, and a sheepish smile materialized on his face."

2014, Kim Richardson, Mystics #2: The Alpha Nation, →ISBN:

dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians

(Southern US, colloquial) An expression of astonishment upon learning something unbelievable; chiefly something positive.


god willing

[…] and if, god willing, he were gay, then he'd never ever leave me for another woman.

2005, Amy Scheibe, What Do You Do All Day?: A Novel, →ISBN, page 68:


godsdamn

"Thet!" he half-shouted, his voice deeper than one would expect coming from his frame. "Godsdamn it! You know the bloodmages are supposed to be notified [...]"

1994, Ed Stark, The fifth horseman, →ISBN, page 7:

“Godsdamn, Airell.” He pushed himself from the bench and began pacing.

2006, Cheyenne McCray, Seduced by Magic, →ISBN, page 55:

(vulgar, nonstandard, slang, fiction, fantasy) An expression of anger, surprise, or frustration.


ooh arrh

I am a cider drinker,
I drinks it all of the day,
I am a cider drinker,
it soothes all me troubles away,
Ooh arrh, ooh arrh ay, Ooh arrh, ooh arrh ay.

1976, The Wurzels, I Am A Cider Drinker:

(West Country) Alternative form of oo arr


hrrmph

‘Hrrmph!’ said the machine-gun through all its five noses as the subaltern drew the lever home.

1891 January, Rudyard Kipling, chapter XV, in The Light that Failed, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published March 1891, →OCLC, page 327:

I mustered up courage to shake the box, but not to enter the office. “bring it in” said Robin with a hrrmph!

2009, Aaron Chynn, Memoirs of an Ordinary Man: A Yorkshireman's Tale, page 49:

She lets out what starts as a sigh but finishes off as a hrrmph.

2011, Lee Stringer, Sleepaway School: Stories from a Boy's Life; A Memoir, page 151:

She rolled through the house, pushed by Baz or wheeling herself, with nothing but a scowl and a hrrmph for Willa, who had no idea what she'd done to incur the old lady's wrath.

2012, Kim Thompson, Eldritch Manor, page 55:


pocketa-queep

Imitative, from a James Thurber short story.

He sprang to the machine, which was now going pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep.

1939 March 18, James Thurber, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, in The New Yorker:

TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! went the Odor Extractors.

2007, Dan Greenburg, Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book 7: Please Don't Eat the Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 93:

At the instant Mr. Smitty saw the woman, smoke ballooned out from the dual tailpipes of his hurtling car, and the engine's sound changed to an unsettling pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep.

2010, David Booth, Every Pointed Star, iUniverse, page 53:

It is like the old joke about the man who is called in to repair a gigantic but malfunctioning piece of machinery that is emitting a Thurberian pocketa-queep instead of its normal pocketa-pocketa.

2012, Lewis A. Coser, editor, The Idea of Social Structure: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton, Transaction Publishers, page 340:

A sound from a machine, usually when in need of a tune-up.


kerflop

The sound of something flopping heavily, or moving along in a flopping manner.


psha

"Psha! your ladyship does not know the world," said her husband.

1852, William Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.:

Psha! the girl's a Christian, and when she's smacked on one cheek she turns the other.

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:


spasibo

Borrowed from Russian спаси́бо (spasíbo).


do svidaniya

From Russian до свида́ния (do svidánija), from до (do, “till”) with свида́ния (svidánija) - genitive form of свида́ние (svidánije, “meeting, seeing (each other)”).

der

до свида́ния

(chiefly in the context of Russia or Russians) Farewell; goodbye.


calm your tits

Jesus H. Christ dude, calm your tits! Don't get so damn worked up; we'll sort it out.

The act of pareidolia is such that the culmination of completely arbitrary events leads to the jackrabbit assumption that we might as well call it a day and close shop. Without any hard evidence, we wave the white flag. And yes, an earthquake counts as an arbitrary event. Calm your tits.

2011 April 11, Doc Watson, “Game Over, Man!: Has Doom & Gloom Come All Too Soon?”, in Salient, volume 74, number 7, Victoria University of Wellington, page 31:

Unfortunately, I had only heard of J. Cole on R&B singer Miguel's single "All I Want is You" (calm your tits, hip-hop junkies); however, I can say that I am more than pleased this season (considering the NBA lockout disappointment).

2011, Victoria Smith, "From Sidelines to Varsity", The Union Weekly (California State University, Long Beach), Volume 69, Issue 7,10 October 2011, page 11

I can hear you cringing at this choice, but calm your tits and watch the music video.

2013, Julie Kosin, “An Eye For An Icon”, in The Miscreant, number 35, page 15:

(slang, derogatory, vulgar) Calm down! (Used to tell someone to relax when they are agitated, angry, overexcited, etc.)


oh really

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Well, one day when she got tired of my seemingly spaced-out replies she let me have it. She responded with, "Oh Mommy, I had a horrible day. First I lost my lunch pail and the teacher wouldn't let me go to the office for help. Then I got upset and jumped off the building." My response was “Oh really, darling, that is wonderful.” She started raising her voice and said “See, I knew you were not listening to me. You don't really want to know how my day was, so why do you even ask me?” That was it. I felt terrible.

2009, Elizabeth Marie Galloway-Evans, Embracing the Gift of Parenthood, page 85:

(colloquial) An exclamation of surprise or amazement.

'It's a sniper' shouted the bush.
‘Oh really! Did you hear that boys, it's a fucking sniper. What am I? Am I talking in Czechoslovakian or what? I know it's a fuckin' sniper.’

2004, Martin Pegler, Out of Nowhere: A history of the military sniper, published 2012, unnumbered page:

(colloquial, sarcastic) Said in response to an obvious statement.

"In less than two hours Simon is picking me up, and we're going to Maui for the weekend."
“Oh, really.” The line was silent for a moment. “And just what are his intentions in this romantic getaway?”

2007, Terrye Robins, Revenge in Paradise, page 131:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see oh, really.


padiddle

"Let's play ‘padiddle’... When a car goes by with one headlight if I say padiddle you have to give me a kiss!"

1948 May 23, Bob Montana, Nevada State Journal, Reno, NV, Comics section, Archie:

An exclamation shouted during a game by the first player that sees an automobile with only one lit headlight, the said person being allowed to kiss or strike one of the other players.


I am

I am something (canonical)
someone (canonical)

Originally after Biblical usage (Exodus 3:14), translating Hebrew אֶהְיֶה ('ehyeh).

I am Charlie Hebdo!

Indicates solidarity or a support of a shared conviction with the person or object upon which a perceived injustice is being inflicted.


Hookey Walker

UK early 19th century. Etymology unknown.

unk

Etymology unknown

(UK, archaic, slang) Expressing scornful rejection or disbelief.


thanky

“Thanky, George,” replied the sea-cook.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

“How do you do, Mr. Huxter,” the Prince of Fairoaks said in his most princely manner—“I hope you are very well.”
“Pretty bobbish, thanky.”

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

“Thanky Ma’am. Ah hates dat woman lak poison. Keep her from round dis house. Her look lak uh white woman!

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 143:


wheugh

Wheugh! Wheugh! What a bustle we are in! and what a world of trouble is here!

1804, Maria Edgeworth, “Rosanna”, in Popular Tales:


phweep

From around the corner upstream comes a quiet birdcall: "Phweep? Phweep?" like a question.

1986, Martha Brown, Granite Mountain Spring, page 26:

Pit blew on Relly's whistle, three times, phweep. Bubba started barking.

2009, George Stade, Swimming Through the Flotsam in Which We Live and Move and Have Our Being:

A guttural phweep-phweep used to defend feeding territories.

2010, Clive F. Mann, Robert A. Cheke, Sunbirds:

A whistle, or the whistling cry of a bird.


ayubowan

"Ayubowan, I am looking for a yam for my Suduhamy." I said.

1963, Punyakante Wijenaike, The third woman and other stories - Part 1963, page 48:

Charming girls dressed in the traditional, low-country reddha and hattaya, welcomed the invitees at the regal Galle Face Hotel, with a customary ayubowan.

2007 June 3, Vidushi Seneviratne, “Echo of Koggala cradle”, in The Sunday Times:

The cabin crew are all Sri Lankan and passengers are greeted on boarding with the traditional ayubowan ('may you have long life').

2008, Royston Ellis, Sri Lanka: The Bradt Travel Guide, page 27:

(Sri Lanka) Salutation wishing the recipient a long life, typically as a greeting or a goodbye.


kill it with fire

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Presumably a reference to the trope of using fire to kill a monster in horror, science fiction, and fantasy, with a notable example being the 1982 film The Thing.

'Look at this! IS GAY THE NEW STRAIGHT? Jesus – she's like a one woman crap factory. Kill it! Kill it with fire!'

2005, Anna Clare, Make You a Man, Black Lace, →ISBN, page 14:

But we need to give STL [file format] a headshot. We should kill it. Kill it with fire. Whatever switching costs you may have they will pay for themselves in money saved in storage.

2013 July, Joris Peels, “AMF is no longer only for bowling”, in TCT Magazine, page 15:

For me, the victor is the film adaption, which is a masterpiece of one man's conversion. As for the book? Kill it with fire.

2020 January 16, Patrick Ullmer, “The Stack-Up: 'The Hunter'”, in The Spectrum, North Dakota State University, page 7:

(Internet slang) Used to express fear, disgust, or strong objection in reaction to something.


uck

“Uck,” he said. “I mean, you... you've got to be kidding.”

Actually, I hadn't looked at my voice mail but I knew now. “Uck. Glad he hasn't been in. Is he ok?”

2011, Hollie Delaney, Understanding the Business: Journal II, page 210:

Uck. This one smells like onion.

2013, Megan McDonald, Stink and the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneakers, page 13:


you tell me

(in response to a question) I don't know!


ermahgerd

From a humorously altered pronunciation of oh my God. Popularized by an image macro meme in 2012, which features the text "ermahgerd, Gersberms" overlaid on a photo of a teenage girl making a silly face and holding several Goosebumps books. The girl in the photo has a visible orthodontic retainer. The pronunciation spelling is intended to mimic the speech of a wearer of this device.

PLUS (please brace yourselves, fangirls) he's coming to play at the Perth Arena in a few months – ermahgerd.

2012 October 24, “Livin' A Teenage Dream”, in X-Press Magazine, number 1341, page 11:

Here's a scary thought: I'm a Canadian citizen over 18 years of age and I have lived in Saskatoon for more than three months and in Saskatchewan for more than six months. What does this mean? I can run for mayor. Ermahgerd!

2012 October 25, Travis Homenuk, “Let's all run for mayor”, in The Sheaf, volume 104, number 8, University of Saskatchewan, page 16:

Is that an Alber Elbaz pink-bubblegum macaron you're eating? Ermahgerd! You are so last year.

2013 March 3, Robert Epstein, “Being Modern: Macarons”, in The Independent:

(slang, humorous or sarcastic) Alternative form of oh my God.


kthxbai

HELO YHBT KTHXBAI!!!!!!1

2001 October 20, LS <s-m-...@saturn.com>, “HELO YHBT KTHXBAI!!!!!!1”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon.hentai (Usenet), message-ID <Xns91366B294EC34saberteamraolcom@167.206.112.134>:

Um, hey, Counselor, can you stop streaming Gilmore Girls on Netflix long enough to present your case to the jury? KTHXBAI.

2012, Jen Lancaster, Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development, or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner, New American Library, →ISBN:

Google knows you better than your own mother. It has a file on you that would make J. Edgar Hoover salivate. And now they're going to hang onto that file and pretty much do whatever they want with it. But don't worry because they haven't done anything scary yet, and they promise not to be evil. Kthxbai.

2012 February 19, Rainbow Rowell, “Rainbow: Google is tracking your personal info”, in Omaha World-Herald:

And man, what a letdown that we finally get some Wolfbrotherness after, what, two whole books of Perrin resolutely ignoring the wolves —and then they're all, yeah, haven't seen your chick, bummer dude, keep it reals, kthxbai.

2013, Leigh Butler, Wheel of Time Reread: Books 7-9, Tor.com, →ISBN:


sjoe

We open the front door after switching off the alarms and unlocking the security gates and sigh with relief, "Sjoe, it's still all here!", relieved to find that we have not become a crime statistic, another victim.

2005, Alan Brand, Positively Alive, page 25:

'Sjoe, it's coming down hard, eh? It's fantastic,' she shouts and discharges an exuberant giggle. They run along the side of the house onto a big covered veranda, an entertainment area from where they can see the rain sifting down in sheets[…]

2007, Heinrich Troost, Plot Loss, page 14:

Sjoe, it was still alive! As the young man turned to pick up his stick to beat it, the snake spat its poison into the man's water gourd before slithering away.

2011, Beverley Naidoo, Aesop's Fables, page 20:

(South Africa) whew; phew; expressing surprise, relief, etc.


big woop

(colloquial, US) so what? Used dismissively to discount the importance of something or the magnitude of its effects.


I know I sound real lame, but I can get good if someone gets me starteD! Thanx a lot, L8z

1995 December 2, warrior [username], “Hey..could you all read this??”, in tw.bbs.comp.hacker (Usenet):

Anyways, I'll stop rambling. I don't know what this means for me...but hey at least I got a chance. L8z!

1999 September 11, Sparkle [username], “The Roseanne Show”, in alt.acting (Usenet):

Kthxbye. Being immortal rocks! I can type like demon speed! Fear me! L8z.

2010, Christopher Moore, Bite Me: A Love Story, William Morrow, →ISBN, page 179:


oh my word

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“Oh my word ... Mr. Williams ... I am so sorry about before. I had no idea it was you.”

2008, E. Lawrence Hardin, Andre's Song: A Young Man Scorned Creates a New Life, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 95:

Within two minutes there was a very distinct double pink line indicating that I was, in fact, knocked up. And my first thought was, Oh my word, I am pregnant.

2013, Melanie Shankle, Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn, Tyndale, →ISBN, page 8:

“He goes up this ladder and drops the rats into this giant funnel, and the poor little things are rolled flat here before being formed into patties.”
“Oh my word!” said Dad. “So it is true.”

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

An expression of surprise or astonishment.


back of the net

From the position of the ball when a goal is scored in football.

Alan Partridge: My girlfriend's thirty-three. I'm forty-seven. She's fourteen years younger than me. Back of the net!

(British, colloquial) A smug expression of triumph or happiness.


O.M.G.

Initialism of "oh my God".
Its first known attestation is in a letter from John Fisher to Winston Churchill, dated 1917, as "O.M.G.".


Christ on a stick

(colloquial) Expressing amazement or disgust.


Christ on a crutch

Crane: Rahim! Jesus don't move! I'll get help!
Rahim: Haha! I was just fucking with you!
Crane: Son of a bitch!
Rahim: What? You can't take a joke? Come on! Get your ass down here!
Crane: Christ on a crutch.

2015, Techland, Dying Light, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment:

(colloquial) Jesus Christ; expressing annoyance, disgust, etc.


nyao

From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃお (nyao, “meow, miaow”).

Scorpion's body dropped to the ground as Felicia turned back into a cat. With a barely audible "nyao," she then began to lick and clean herself off.

1994 December 13, Mark Maestas, “Dream Tournament 3: Round 1 Results, Part 2”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet):

Luna looked at me with a very skeptical face, "Nyao?!"
It must have been a cat's way of saying, 'You've got to be kidding!'

1997 August 16, Terra, “[XOver] [FanFic] Star98 - Episode 2: The Lost Senshi”, in rec.arts.anime.fandom (Usenet):

I'd Be The Family Kitty Cat! Nyao! Heehee! :::lies down on a rug and purrs:::

2001 March 25, Aylakitty [username], “Re: If AFD was a family...”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):

(chiefly anime and manga fandom) The cry of a cat.


fuckyeah

Fuckyeah, they do pretty well for 2 people playing guitar/piano & drums.

2004 April 7, smithmick, “Re: bleh”, in alt.music.nirvana (Usenet):

“Fuckyeah, I dropped out of university to go traveling. Mistake of the year. […]

2006, Sean Thomas, Millions of Women Are Waiting to Meet You: A Memoir, Da Capo Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 179:

Ruiz took a turn. “Fuckyeah.” Then he downed the rest of the third or fourth bottle and laughed. “You are a fucking genius,” he told Kenny.

2013, Michael Hassan, Crash and Burn, Balzer + Bray, →ISBN:


fairy nuff

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(humorous, chiefly Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of fair enough.


dear heart

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“Dead — aye, sure enough he’s dead and gone below,” said the fellow with the bandage; “but if ever sperrit walked, it would be Flint’s. Dear heart, but he died bad, did Flint!”

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

"Dear heart!" exclaimed Mrs. Plummer soon after, as something rolled over the bare white boards from the folds of a dress she was vigorously shaking, before replacing it in the drawer, "how did she come by pearls?"

1891, Maxwell Gray, In the Heart of the Storm, volume 2, page 119:

(archaic) Expressing surprise or emphasis.


ENOTUITS

Mimics the form of C error codes: for example, on Linux, a library call may return the error code ENOMEM to indicate that it has run out of memory. TUITS comes from round tuit.

ENOTUITS! /me is already sorely over-committed

2010 January 29, "David E. Wheeler" (username), "[HACKERS] Review: listagg aggregate", in pgsql.hackers, Mailing list

(computing, humorous) A fictitious error code indicating that a person has run out of round tuits (i.e. they don't have any time to spare on the task being discussed).


ruh-roh

First used by Astro on the cartoon The Jetsons and later by Scooby-Doo in the Scooby-Doo cartoon series; both characters are dogs who speak broken English with the insertion of many r's.

After we finished securing the motherboard, we planned to shoot an image of the rear I/O panel to show that none of the grounding tabs were obstructing ports. Ruh-roh. When we got down to shoot a close-up, we were surprised to see that both Gigabit Ethernet ports were obstructed, […]

2007, Robert Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson, Building the Perfect PC, O'Reilly, published 2007, →ISBN, page 228:

Ruh-roh, Posey thought. Something was about to hit the fan.

2011, Kristan Higgins, Until There Was You, Harlequin, published 2011, →ISBN:

Missy makes a face. “Ruh-roh. He sounds mad."

2012, Roxanne St. Claire, Don't You Wish, Delacorte Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 352:


thankies

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(hypocoristic, informal, chiefly Internet slang) thank you


nothing personal

(sarcastic) Indicates that one's remark is not directed at the interlocutor specifically, but is a general remark, and thus not intended to offend.


ifackins

I don't pretend to give your la'ship advice, whereof your la'ship knows much better than I can pretend to, being but a servant; but, ifackins! no father in England should marry me against my consent.

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


oh, brother

used as an expression of frustration, disgust, disbelief, or incredulity


andele

From Spanish ándale (“hurry! come on! let's go!”).

bor

What's wrong with you Miguel? Is that all the juice you can get out of this engine? I thought you were supposed to be the best driver in the unit! My old crippled grandmother can drive faster than you, and she only has one leg. Andele! Andele!

2006, Joseph McLaughlin, Trail of Death, page 413:

(US, slang) hurry up; come on; get a move on


rumpty

I sang it through, "Rumpty tumpty toddy man," as Granda thumped his blackthorn stick against the floor and everyone laughed.

2009, Patricia Reilly Giff, “chapter 6”, in Nory Ryan's Song:

[…] he heard a distant sound, or song, behind him. "Rumpty didily dum. Rumpty dididly doo. Rumpty doo doo dumpty didily rumpty didily dum."

2010, Dawn Dalglish, Jacob's World, page 127:

A nonsense word, especially in simple or childish songs.


aooga

(often humorous) Signifies sexual interest in someone.


rumpty-tumpty

Rumpty-tumpty, pimplety-pan— / The flubdub courted a catamaran / But timplety-topplety, timpity-tare— / The flubdub wedded the big blue bear!

1911, Eugene Field, The Holy Cross and Other Tales:


shit yeah

Shit yeah! We are the champions.

Shit yeah! We get paid today!

(informal, vulgar, colloquial) Expressing joy, celebration, glee, support, elation, etc.

Shit yeah, I do.

(informal, vulgar, colloquial) A strong affirmative response.


what hath God wrought

Archaic form of the question “what has God made?”, from the Bible, King James Version; popularized especially by being used as the first message sent by telegraph in the United States, by Samuel Morse (May 24, 1844).

A divine unction evidently attended his ministry, and such were the effects produced, that every beholder, with astonishment and admiration, cried "what hath God wrought!"

1855, Thomas Raffles, A Burning and A Shining Light, page 151:

"Oh, my God !" he cried. "He's invented photography." "What hath God wrought?" said the old man, trying to get up.

1925, Donald Ogden Stewart, The Crazy Fool, page 224:

Surely of this work, and of this time, it shall be said, what hath God wrought!

1969, Paul W. Glad, The Process of American History: Early America, page 84:

When Frank put the receiver to his ear, a sepulchral voice asked, "What hath God wrought?"

1987, Edward Fischer, Notre Dame Remembered: An Autobiography, page 173:

The rich man got up, called off the suit and everybody said, “What hath God wrought?”

2011, A. W. Tozer, James L. Snyder, A Disruptive Faith: Expect God to Interrupt Your Life, page 186:

(archaic) An expression of wonder and marvel at something.


mm-hmm

Mm-hmm. And I've only been there a couple of times.

1984-1993, Jason Milligan, Cross Country: Seven More One-Act Plays, page 96

Mm-hmm. Jewelry.

1998, Howard Michael Gould, Diva, page 25:

Mm-hmm. And they would still be wrapped up if Tandy hadn't threatened to haul the bag out to the trash bin along with my mom's boxes.

2007, Sally John, Gary Smalley, A Time to Mend, page 137:


strike a light

Cor, strike a light! Did you see him jump into the river?

(UK, informal, dated) Expressing surprise.


waa

I don’t see one of your lot getting it done, Richard. Waa waa waa, people are trying to replace us. Waa waa waa, can we stop for Cheetos.

2018 August 16, Marina Hyde, “Sorry to break it to you, far-righters: James Bond is not on your team”, in The Guardian:


sue me

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"So I've got it! So sue me!"

1969, Beard & Kennedy, Bored of the Rings, page 53:

"God, you're preaching again. And your ceiling's dirty."
"So, sue me."

1982, Judith Guest, Ordinary People, page 78:

She was sure they did, but their return journeys would take a little longer. If you don't like it, sue me, Rachel thought and smiled.

1997, Martin Wagner, Rachel's Machine, page 295:

“You're playing games with me, lady, and I don't like it.”
“Sue me,” Diana hissed.

2008, Bernie Loposer, Seven Is the Perfect Number, page 371:

I am a feminist – so sue me.

2011, Alice Grist, The High Heeled Guide to Spiritual Living, page 14:

My mind wandered for a minute, so sue me.

2015, Samantha Chase, chapter 10, in Stay with Me / More of Me:

Phrase sarcastically used to suggest that a person who does not like the actions or opinions of the speaker can respond by filing a lawsuit against the speaker.

me processa

phrase sarcastically used to suggest that a person can respond by filing a lawsuit