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gosh|gɒʃ|
[Mincing pronunc. of god.]
An oath or exclamation, (by) gosh!, my gosh! So ˈgoshawful a. = God-awful a.; hence ˈgosh-ˌawfulness; ˈgosh-darned a., God-damned.
1757Foote Author ii. Wks. 1799 I. 147 Then there's highest—and lowest, by gosh. c1804C. K. Sharpe Corr. (1888) I. 210, I promise, by Gosh (which is the most elegant and classical oath imaginable). 1870Ramsay Remin. ii. (ed. 18) 26 Such minced oaths as..losh! gosh! and lovanendie! a1873Lytton Ken. Chillingly viii, By gosh! I never heard that before. 1906H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 169 I'd a been free from that De Shine a long time ago if it wasn't fur the notoriety, an' me so gosh darned sensitive! 1909H. L. Hindley Gentleman from Hayville 36 That gosh⁓awful long-winded, Vermont heestorical society meeting. 1920F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side Paradise i. iv. 143 ‘The Life of St. Teresa,’ read Alec aloud. ‘Oh, my gosh!’ 1928Daily Express 9 July 9 Stripped of that language the result is what the flapper critic would call ‘goshawful’. 1934Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves iv. 39 That subtle gosh-awfulness which renders..my Aunt Agatha the curse of the Home Counties. 1942M. Lowry Let. (1967) 44 The Goshdarned thing will put you on the spot. 1967J. Fleming No Bones about It iv. 80 Oh, my gosh! We'll have to have meals in the dining-room. 1967Lord Reith in Listener 30 Nov. 688/3 Blood pouring down my new tunic, my gosh. |