English

Interjection

Sense: an indication of excitement, surprise, astonishment, or shock

Synonyms

• adzooks(archaic)
• ay, caramba
• ay, chihuahua
• begorra(dated, Ireland)
• bleeding heck
• bleeding Nora
• bless my heart
• bless my soul
• bless us
• blige(UK)
• blimey
• bloody hell
• bloody Nora
• blow me(dated, UK)
• blow me backwards(dated, UK)
• blow me down
• blow me over(dated, UK)
• blow me pink(dated, UK)
• blow me tight(dated, UK)
• blow me up(dated, UK)
• blow my buttons(dated, UK)
• butter my butt and call me a biscuit
• by all that is holy
• by Allah(Islam)
• by cracky
• by George
• by God
• by golly
• by gum
• by gummy
• by jingo
• by Jove
• by juckies
• by Jupiter
• by thunder
• by the living jingo
• byrlady(obsolete)
• caramba
• Christ
• Christ alive
• Christ on a bike
• Christ on a cracker
• Christ on a raft
• cor(UK)
• cor blimey(UK)
• cor lummy(UK)
• cowabunga(jocular, orig. US)
• crikey(UK, Australia, NZ)
• criminy
• cripes
• crivvens(Scotland, UK)
• chuffing hell(UK)
• dear God
• dear me
• dearie me
• deary me
• dear Lord
• diggety
• eep
• egad
• egads
• ermahgerd
• fancy that
• flaming Nora(UK)
• flipping heck
• flipping Nora(UK)
• fuark
• fuck me
• fucking hell
• fucking Nora(UK)
• gad so
• Gadsbodikins(archaic)
• gadsbud(archaic)
• gadzooks(archaic)
• gaw
• gee(US, dated)
• gee whiz(US, dated)
• gee willikers(US, dated)
• geeminy
• geez
• geez Louise(US)
• geshmak
• get out of town
• glory be
• God Almighty
• God in heaven
• God's teeth
• good golly
• golly
• golly gee willikers
• golly gosh
• good God
• good golly
• good gracious
• good gravy
• good grief
• good heavens
• good Lord
• goodness   [⇒ thesaurus]
• goodness gracious
• goodness gracious me
• goodness me
• googly-moogly
• gorblimey
• Gordon Bennett(UK)
• gosh
• gosh all hemlock
• gracious
• gramercy
• great balls of fire
• great Caesar
• great Caesar's ghost
• great googly moogly
• great Scott
• gyatt(AAVE, slang)
• hallo
• hello   [⇒ thesaurus]
• heavens
• heavens above
• heavens to Betsy
• heavens to Murgatroyd
• hell's bells
• hey   [⇒ thesaurus]
• heyday(obsolete)
• hold up
• holy buckets
• holy cannoli
• holy cow
• holy crap
• holy crap on a cracker
• holy cricket
• holy crickets
• holy crud
• holy dignity
• holy doodle
• holy fuck
• holy fuck knuckles
• holy guacamole
• holy Hannah
• holy hell
• holy kamoley
• holy kamoly
• holy macaroni
• holy mackerel
• holy magnum
• holy moley
• holy moly
• holy man
• holy Moses
• Holy Mother
• Holy Mother of God
• holy ravioli
• holy shit
• holy stromboli
• holy smoke
• holy Toledo
• hooly dooly
• hot damn
• I'll be
• I'll be a dirty bird!
• I'll be a monkey's uncle (orcall me a monkey's uncle)
• I'll be a son of a bitch
• I'll be a son of a gun
• I'll be blowed
• I'll be bound
• I'll be buggered
• I'll be damned
• I'll be danged
• I'll be darned
• I'll be dashed
• I'll be dipped
• I'll be dipped in shit
• I'll be hanged
• I'll be hornswoggled
• I'll be jiggered
• I'll be shot
• imagine that
• I'm blowed(dated, UK)
• I say
• Janey Mack(Ireland)
• Jaysus
• Jeebus
• jeepers
• jeepers creepers
• jeez
• jeez Louise
• jeezy peeps(Scotland)
• Jerusalem crickets
• Jesum Crow
• Jesus
• Jesus Christ
• Jesus fucking Christ
• Jesus H. Christ
• Jesus Murphy(Canada)
• Jiminy Cricket
• jings(Scotland)
• jinkies
• Judas Priest
• jumping Jehoshaphat
• jumping Jesus
• knock me down with a feather
• knock me over with a feather
• land sakes
• lauks
• lawks
• lawks a-mercy
• lawl
• leapin' lizards
• Lord
• Lord be praised
• Lord love a duck
• lordy
• mama mia
• mamma mia
• man alive
• mercy sakes
• Mother of God
• my
• my conscience(obsolete)
• my giddy aunt(Britain, dated)
• my heavens
• my sainted aunt(Britain, dated)
• my sainted uncle(Britain, dated)
• my God
• my goodness
• my gosh
• my Lord
• my my
• my word
• no way
• O gemini
• ods bodikin(archaic)
• odsfish
• odzookens(archaic)
• oh
• oh em gee
• ohmigod
• oh my
• oh my days
• oh my God
• oh my Goddess
• oh my goodness
• oh my goodness gracious
• oh my gosh
• oh my hell
• oh my heck
• oh my fuck
• oh my life
• oh my Lord
• oh my stars
• oh my word
• oi
• OMG(internet slang)
• omigod
• omigosh
• peas and rice
• please
• praise the Lord
• rah (MLE)
• ruddy hell(UK)
• ruddy Nora(UK)
• sacré bleu
• sakes alive
• 'sblood(archaic)
• 'sdeath(archaic)
• shart(obsolete)
• 'sheart(obsolete)
• sheesh
• shit fire and save matches
• shitting Nora(UK)
• shiver my timbers
• shut my mouth
• shut the front door
• slap my ass and call me Judy
• slap my ass and call me Sally
• snakes alive
• sodding hell
• son of a gun
• stone me
• stone the crows(rare)
• strewth
• strike me pink
• 'struth(archaic)
• suffering Sappho
• suffering succotash
• sweet Grandma on stilts
• sweet Jesus
• sweet mother of God
• sweet mother of Jesus
• well
• well, I never
• well, well(often sarcastic)
• well, well, well(often sarcastic)
• what
• what do you know(often sarcastic)
• whoa
• whoah
• wow
• wowee
• wowzers
• ye gods
• yikes
• yikes bikes
• you don't say(often sarcastic)
• yowzah
• zoiks
• zoinks
• ZOMG(internet slang)
• ZOMFG(internet slang)
• zooterkins(archaic)
• zound(archaic)
• zounds(archaic)
• zowie

Hyponyms

• yay   [⇒ thesaurus](exuberantly approving; see for further synonyms)
• yes   [⇒ thesaurus](approving; see for further synonyms)
• no   [⇒ thesaurus](disapproving; see for further synonyms)

Antonyms

• screw this   [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• FML

See also