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God-almighty, n. and adv.|gɒdɔːlˈmaɪtɪ|
Also 7– (colloq. and dial.) God-a-mighty.
A. n.
1. a. = god n. 5. (See also almighty, almight, almightin.)
c870Codex Aureus Inscr. 15 in O.E. Texts 175 On Godes almaehtiᵹes noman. a1000Dream of Rood 39 Onᵹyrede hine þa ᵹeong hæleð, þæt wæs god ælmihtiᵹ. c1175Lamb. Hom. 5 In swa muchele edmodnesse godal⁓mihti hine dude for us. a1300Cursor M. 179 (Gött.) Godd all-mightin Turnd water into win. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. i. §10 Our hartie prayer vnto God almightie is, that [etc.]. 1604Dekker 1st Pt. Honest Wh. (1635) I 3 b, Tell me, whither is he gone? Tow. Why to God a mighty. 1643Digby Observ. Relig. Med. 29 Steered and levelled by God Almighty. 1864Tennyson North. Farmer 45 Do godamoighty knaw what a's doing?
b. In derisive use (with a and in pl.): One who poses, or is regarded by others, as omnipotent.
[1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. i. (1623) C 4, I haue read..How there were Bees so wise and skilful, as..to descrie a certain little God-a mightie, though he came among them in likeness of a Wafer-Cake.] 1682Dryden Medal 110 This side to day, and that to morrow burns; So all are God-a'mighties in their turns. 1795Wolcot (P. Pindar) Ode to French Wks. 1812 III. 354, I, in life's more early day, Deem'd Kings young God-almighties, form'd for sway.
2. dial. (See quots.)
1847–78Halliwell, God-Almighty's-Cow, the lady bird. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., God Almighty's bread and cheese, wood sorrel, Oxalis Acetosella. God Almighty's cock and hen [the robin and wren]. 1893G. D. Leslie Lett. to Marco xiv. 95 note, An Oxford friend tells me of a curious name for woodlice current in Oxfordshire, namely ‘God Almighty's pigs’.
B. adv. Extremely, excessively.
1906E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands vii. 85 It's that go'lmighty funny I can't laugh..'n' I'm dyin' to. 1923D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo viii. 164 Why should people..be so God-Almighty puffed up? |