God almightyn.int.adv.adj.

Brit.

/ˌɡɒd ɔːlˈmʌɪti/, U.S.

/ˌɡɑd ɔlˈmaɪdi/,

/ˌɡɑd ɑlˈmaɪdi/

Forms:

α. See god n. and almighty adj.; also early Middle English god almeyte, early Middle English god almiȝte, early Middle English god almiȝtte, early Middle English god almitte, early Middle English god almytte, 1900s go'lmighty (Australian).

β. 1600s (1800s– U.S. regional) God a mighty, 1600s (1900s– U.S. regional) God a'mighty, 1800s God a mity (U.S. regional), 1800s God a'mity (U.S. regional and Caribbean), 1800s godamoighty (English regional (northern)).

Also with lower-case initial in the first element or with capital initial in the second element.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: god n., almighty adj.

Etymology: < god n. + almighty adj. Compare almighty n.In Old English usually treated as a syntactic collocation of (postposed) adjective and noun, in which both words are subject to inflection (compare quot. eOE at sense A. 1). Examples apparently showing a true compound, in which the expected inflectional ending of God is omitted, are attested in late Old English and early Middle English (compare quots. lOE, a1225¹ at sense A. 1).

A. n.

1. = god n. 5. to think one is God almighty: to have a greatly exaggerated opinion of one's own importance. little God almighty: see little adj., pron., n., and adv. Phrases 1c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > as ruler

God almightyeOE

kingeOE

waldendeOE

almightyOE

heaven kingOE

dihtendec1200

rectora1513

omnipotent1562

almight?1580

Pantocrator1759

Goramighty1816

eOE (Kentish) Codex Aureus Inscription, Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 1204a) in D. Whitelock Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader (1967) 205 On Godes almaehtiges noman ond on allra his haligra.

OE Dream of Rood 39 Ongyrede hine þa geong hæleð, (þæt wæs god ælmihtig), strang ond stiðmod.

OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) iii. i. 126 God ælmihtig wæs aa and ys and æfre byð.

lOE Bounds (Sawyer 889) in A. R. Rumble Property & Piety Early Medieval Winchester (2002) 209 Ðis is þæs hagan boc on Winceastre..þe Æþelred cyning geuðe God elmihtigum and his halgan apostolan Petre & Paule into Ealdan mynstre.

a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily De Initio Creaturae (Vesp. A.xxii) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 219 He..cweð..þat he wolde..bien his sceoppende ȝelic, and sitte on norðdele hefene riches, and habbe anwealda and riche anȝen godelmichti [OE Royal ongean gode ælmihtigum].

a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 5 In swa muchele edmodnesse godalmihti hine dude for us.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 1648 He miȝte serui god almiȝti.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Radegunde (c1525) f. 8 On her knes knelyng So with continuaunce all the nyght season Feruent in soule to please god almyghty.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. i. 130 Our hartie prayer vnto God almightie is, that [etc.].

1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore v. ii. 118 Tell me, whether is he gone? Tow. Why to God a mighty.

1643 K. Digby Observ. Religio Medici 29 Steered and levelled by God Almighty.

1701 J. Alleyne Episcopacy Asserted & Recommended 20 The Presbyterian party had opened a Gap to confusion, by destroying the Ministry of God Almighty's appointment.

1750 W. Agate Persuasive to Repentance 6 Let no Man therefore think, that national Troubles proceed from the mere arbitrary Power of God Almighty.

1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna x. xxviii. 226 O God Almighty! thou alone hast power! Who can resist thy will?

1864 Ld. Tennyson Northern Farmer: Old Style xii, in Enoch Arden, etc. 134 Do godamoighty knaw what a's doing?

1929 A. Abdullah & F. Baldwin Broadway Interlude xiii. 226 Once let a playwright..have a piece accepted—and he thinks he's God Almighty!

1946 Harper's Mag. Dec. 554/1 They didn't want to become capitalists, they wanted to stay tenant farmers like Godalmighty made them.

2012 Express (Nexis) 19 Mar. 15 If you ever see me sitting on a panel, acting like I think I'm God Almighty..you have my permission to shoot me.

2. depreciative. As a count noun. A person who poses, or is regarded by others, as omnipotent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [noun] > person

bug1536

bladder1579

God almighty1632

cockalorumc1796

his nibs1821

prima donna1834

fly on the (coach-)wheel1840

high muck-a-muck1856

nobs1877

high muckety-muck1882

muckamuck1883

Pooh Bah1886

prima ballerina1923

I AM1926

muckety-muck1927

Pooter1957

cheese1965

1632 J. Mabbe tr. J. de Santa Maria Christian Policie xxxviii. 463 When men shall go about as it were..to make him a little God almighty [no direct equivalent in Sp. original], in doing him worship and honour, let him by no meanes giue way thereunto.

1682 J. Dryden Medall 7 This side to day, and that to morrow burns; So all are God-a'mighties in their turns.

1718 Short Remarks on Let. from Prolocutor Lower House of Convocation 23 To make People believe that their Salvation and Damnation is in the Power of the Priest, that he is a little God Almighty.

1795 J. Wolcot Ode to French in Wks. (1812) III. 354 I, in life's more early day, Deem'd Kings young God-almighties, form'd for sway.

1810 U. Price Ess. Picturesque (new ed.) II. 7 None but your Browns and your ‘God Almighties can do such things as these’.

1886 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 10 July Landlords are still what they were once in their own eyes..small God Almighties.

1956 A. B. Guthrie These Thousand Hills iii. 34 Some day for the fun of it he'd tally all the little god-almighties.

2009 G. Elias Devil's Trill 287 The sniggers behind your back by twits half your age because of the judgments descending from on high by god almighties like you and her.

3. English regional. In the genitive in various common names of animals and plants. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > creator

wrightc888

lightOE

sheppendOE

sheppera1175

wroughtc1275

creatorc1300

shaper1303

maker1340

workera1382

authora1413

workman1440

workmaster1531

artificer?1555

re-creator1587

architector1639

architect1659

enlivener1663

God almighty1787

1787 F. Grose Superstitions 64 in Provinc. Gloss. A robin and a wren Are God Almighty's cock and hen.

1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I God-Almighty's-Cow, the lady bird.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. God Almighty's bread and cheese, wood sorrel. Oxalis Acetosella.

1893 G. 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’.

1957 H. Hall Parish's Dict. Sussex Dial. (new ed.) 49/2 God Almighty's thumbs and fingers, bird's foot trefoil.

2000 T. Wales Sussex as she wus Spoke (2002) God Almighty's cow, ladybird.

B. int.

Expressing strong feeling, esp. astonishment, anger, or exasperation. Cf. god int., god n. and int. Phrases 1e(a).

ΚΠ

1767 Public Advertiser 15 Apr. 1/4 Good God Almighty! and is it possible, that Englishmen can be guilty of those most horrible Barbarities mentioned in your Paper of Saturday?]

1826 Ladies' Monthly Museum Dec. 312 Oh! God Almighty! you have a heart of steel!

1896 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Sept. 592/1 'Tain't so!—but 'tis! I'm cracked—sprung! Oh, I'm loose! God-a-mighty, what a thing to see!

1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iv. 250 God Almighty, what are you snivelling about now?

1989 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 7 July Their legs look rough and stubbly if they haven't shaved. As for their armpits, God almighty!

2011 New Castle (Pa.) News 15 Oct. c3/1 What a great ballgame. God almighty, they are so athletic. And their quarterback, oh boy.

C. adv.

colloquial. Usually with hyphen or as one word. Extremely, excessively. Cf. almighty adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > excessively

cruellyc1385

overa1400

fullc1400

parlouslyc1425

mortalc1440

perilousc1440

spitefulc1450

devilish1560

pestilently1567

spitefully1567

cruel1573

parlous1575

deadly1589

intolerable?1593

fellc1600

perditlya1632

excessively1634

devilishly1635

desperate1636

woundya1639

woundlya1644

desperately1653

wicked1663

killing1672

woundily1706

wounded1753

mortally1759

dreadful1762

intolerably1768

perishing1776

tremendously1776

terrifically1777

diabolically1792

woundedly1794

thundering1809

all-firedly1833

preponderously1835

painfully1839

deadlilya1843

severely1854

furiously1856

diabolish1858

fiendish1861

demonish1867

sinfully1869

fiendishly1879

thunderingly1885

only too1889

nightmarishly1891

God almighty1906

Christ almighty1945

1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands vii. 85 It's that go'lmighty funny I can't laugh..'n' I'm dyin' to.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo viii. 164 Why should people..be so God-Almighty puffed up?

1996 Kingston (Jamaica) Daily Gleaner 25 Aug. 12/5 She eventually mek de discovery seh de fowl was nothing but so so god almighty fraat.

D. adj.

colloquial. Usually with hyphen or as one word. Of high intensity or degree; very great, enormous. Cf. almighty adj. 3.Earliest and frequently in the superlative (most God almighty, God almightiest), with emphatic force.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great

swappingc1440

bumping1566

thumping1576

swingeinga1592

knocking1598

gigantical1604

gigantine1605

gigantean1611

gigantal?1614

thundering1618

whoppinga1625

humming1654

rapping1657

whisking1673

threshing1707

sousing1735

nation1765

heroic1785

runaway1790

spanking1791

gigantic1797

whacking1797

cracking1834

ringing1834

bouncing1842

walloping1847

stavingc1850

banging1864

howling1865

whooping1866

smacking1888

God almighty1913

Christ almighty1961

1913 L. Stein Let. 7 Feb. in E. Fuller Journey into Self (1950) i. 53 Both he and Gertude are..in my belief turning out the most Godalmighty rubbish that is to be found.

1918 Scribner's Mag. June 714/1 When you and I get out, I'll give you the God-almightiest lickin' your hide ever got.

1961 R. Lloyd George My Father, Lloyd George 209 You're surrounded by false friends who are using you and building you up to a God-almighty fall.

1998 ‘G. Hunter’ Shooting Gallery xvi. 139 ‘Fire the thing!’ His thumb went down on the clacker. There was the most God-almighty blast.

2013 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 8 June (Life section) 32 Once upon a time, a lesbian or black partner in this family would have caused a god-almighty conniption. Now, no one's fazed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	god almighty
释义	God almightyn.int.adv.adj. Brit. /ˌɡɒd ɔːlˈmʌɪti/, U.S. /ˌɡɑd ɔlˈmaɪdi/, /ˌɡɑd ɑlˈmaɪdi/ Forms: α. See god n. and almighty adj.; also early Middle English god almeyte, early Middle English god almiȝte, early Middle English god almiȝtte, early Middle English god almitte, early Middle English god almytte, 1900s go'lmighty (Australian). β. 1600s (1800s– U.S. regional) God a mighty, 1600s (1900s– U.S. regional) God a'mighty, 1800s God a mity (U.S. regional), 1800s God a'mity (U.S. regional and Caribbean), 1800s godamoighty (English regional (northern)). Also with lower-case initial in the first element or with capital initial in the second element. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: god n., almighty adj. Etymology: < god n. + almighty adj. Compare almighty n.In Old English usually treated as a syntactic collocation of (postposed) adjective and noun, in which both words are subject to inflection (compare quot. eOE at sense A. 1). Examples apparently showing a true compound, in which the expected inflectional ending of God is omitted, are attested in late Old English and early Middle English (compare quots. lOE, a1225¹ at sense A. 1). A. n. 1. = god n. 5. to think one is God almighty: to have a greatly exaggerated opinion of one's own importance. little God almighty: see little adj., pron., n., and adv. Phrases 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > as ruler God almightyeOE kingeOE waldendeOE almightyOE heaven kingOE dihtendec1200 rectora1513 omnipotent1562 almight?1580 Pantocrator1759 Goramighty1816 eOE (Kentish) Codex Aureus Inscription, Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 1204a) in D. Whitelock Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader (1967) 205 On Godes almaehtiges noman ond on allra his haligra. OE Dream of Rood 39 Ongyrede hine þa geong hæleð, (þæt wæs god ælmihtig), strang ond stiðmod. OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) iii. i. 126 God ælmihtig wæs aa and ys and æfre byð. lOE Bounds (Sawyer 889) in A. R. Rumble Property & Piety Early Medieval Winchester (2002) 209 Ðis is þæs hagan boc on Winceastre..þe Æþelred cyning geuðe God elmihtigum and his halgan apostolan Petre & Paule into Ealdan mynstre. a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily De Initio Creaturae (Vesp. A.xxii) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 219 He..cweð..þat he wolde..bien his sceoppende ȝelic, and sitte on norðdele hefene riches, and habbe anwealda and riche anȝen godelmichti [OE Royal ongean gode ælmihtigum]. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 5 In swa muchele edmodnesse godalmihti hine dude for us. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 1648 He miȝte serui god almiȝti. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Radegunde (c1525) f. 8 On her knes knelyng So with continuaunce all the nyght season Feruent in soule to please god almyghty. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. i. 130 Our hartie prayer vnto God almightie is, that [etc.]. 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore v. ii. 118 Tell me, whether is he gone? Tow. Why to God a mighty. 1643 K. Digby Observ. Religio Medici 29 Steered and levelled by God Almighty. 1701 J. Alleyne Episcopacy Asserted & Recommended 20 The Presbyterian party had opened a Gap to confusion, by destroying the Ministry of God Almighty's appointment. 1750 W. Agate Persuasive to Repentance 6 Let no Man therefore think, that national Troubles proceed from the mere arbitrary Power of God Almighty. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna x. xxviii. 226 O God Almighty! thou alone hast power! Who can resist thy will? 1864 Ld. Tennyson Northern Farmer: Old Style xii, in Enoch Arden, etc. 134 Do godamoighty knaw what a's doing? 1929 A. Abdullah & F. Baldwin Broadway Interlude xiii. 226 Once let a playwright..have a piece accepted—and he thinks he's God Almighty! 1946 Harper's Mag. Dec. 554/1 They didn't want to become capitalists, they wanted to stay tenant farmers like Godalmighty made them. 2012 Express (Nexis) 19 Mar. 15 If you ever see me sitting on a panel, acting like I think I'm God Almighty..you have my permission to shoot me. 2. depreciative. As a count noun. A person who poses, or is regarded by others, as omnipotent. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [noun] > person bug1536 bladder1579 God almighty1632 cockalorumc1796 his nibs1821 prima donna1834 fly on the (coach-)wheel1840 high muck-a-muck1856 nobs1877 high muckety-muck1882 muckamuck1883 Pooh Bah1886 prima ballerina1923 I AM1926 muckety-muck1927 Pooter1957 cheese1965 1632 J. Mabbe tr. J. de Santa Maria Christian Policie xxxviii. 463 When men shall go about as it were..to make him a little God almighty [no direct equivalent in Sp. original], in doing him worship and honour, let him by no meanes giue way thereunto. 1682 J. Dryden Medall 7 This side to day, and that to morrow burns; So all are God-a'mighties in their turns. 1718 Short Remarks on Let. from Prolocutor Lower House of Convocation 23 To make People believe that their Salvation and Damnation is in the Power of the Priest, that he is a little God Almighty. 1795 J. Wolcot Ode to French in Wks. (1812) III. 354 I, in life's more early day, Deem'd Kings young God-almighties, form'd for sway. 1810 U. Price Ess. Picturesque (new ed.) II. 7 None but your Browns and your ‘God Almighties can do such things as these’. 1886 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 10 July Landlords are still what they were once in their own eyes..small God Almighties. 1956 A. B. Guthrie These Thousand Hills iii. 34 Some day for the fun of it he'd tally all the little god-almighties. 2009 G. Elias Devil's Trill 287 The sniggers behind your back by twits half your age because of the judgments descending from on high by god almighties like you and her. 3. English regional. In the genitive in various common names of animals and plants. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > creator wrightc888 lightOE sheppendOE sheppera1175 wroughtc1275 creatorc1300 shaper1303 maker1340 workera1382 authora1413 workman1440 workmaster1531 artificer?1555 re-creator1587 architector1639 architect1659 enlivener1663 God almighty1787 1787 F. Grose Superstitions 64 in Provinc. Gloss. A robin and a wren Are God Almighty's cock and hen. 1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I God-Almighty's-Cow, the lady bird. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. God Almighty's bread and cheese, wood sorrel. Oxalis Acetosella. 1893 G. 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’. 1957 H. Hall Parish's Dict. Sussex Dial. (new ed.) 49/2 God Almighty's thumbs and fingers, bird's foot trefoil. 2000 T. Wales Sussex as she wus Spoke (2002) God Almighty's cow, ladybird. B. int. Expressing strong feeling, esp. astonishment, anger, or exasperation. Cf. god int., god n. and int. Phrases 1e(a). ΚΠ 1767 Public Advertiser 15 Apr. 1/4 Good God Almighty! and is it possible, that Englishmen can be guilty of those most horrible Barbarities mentioned in your Paper of Saturday?] 1826 Ladies' Monthly Museum Dec. 312 Oh! God Almighty! you have a heart of steel! 1896 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Sept. 592/1 'Tain't so!—but 'tis! I'm cracked—sprung! Oh, I'm loose! God-a-mighty, what a thing to see! 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iv. 250 God Almighty, what are you snivelling about now? 1989 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 7 July Their legs look rough and stubbly if they haven't shaved. As for their armpits, God almighty! 2011 New Castle (Pa.) News 15 Oct. c3/1 What a great ballgame. God almighty, they are so athletic. And their quarterback, oh boy. C. adv. colloquial. Usually with hyphen or as one word. Extremely, excessively. Cf. almighty adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > excessively cruellyc1385 overa1400 fullc1400 parlouslyc1425 mortalc1440 perilousc1440 spitefulc1450 devilish1560 pestilently1567 spitefully1567 cruel1573 parlous1575 deadly1589 intolerable?1593 fellc1600 perditlya1632 excessively1634 devilishly1635 desperate1636 woundya1639 woundlya1644 desperately1653 wicked1663 killing1672 woundily1706 wounded1753 mortally1759 dreadful1762 intolerably1768 perishing1776 tremendously1776 terrifically1777 diabolically1792 woundedly1794 thundering1809 all-firedly1833 preponderously1835 painfully1839 deadlilya1843 severely1854 furiously1856 diabolish1858 fiendish1861 demonish1867 sinfully1869 fiendishly1879 thunderingly1885 only too1889 nightmarishly1891 God almighty1906 Christ almighty1945 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands vii. 85 It's that go'lmighty funny I can't laugh..'n' I'm dyin' to. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo viii. 164 Why should people..be so God-Almighty puffed up? 1996 Kingston (Jamaica) Daily Gleaner 25 Aug. 12/5 She eventually mek de discovery seh de fowl was nothing but so so god almighty fraat. D. adj. colloquial. Usually with hyphen or as one word. Of high intensity or degree; very great, enormous. Cf. almighty adj. 3.Earliest and frequently in the superlative (most God almighty, God almightiest), with emphatic force. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great swappingc1440 bumping1566 thumping1576 swingeinga1592 knocking1598 gigantical1604 gigantine1605 gigantean1611 gigantal?1614 thundering1618 whoppinga1625 humming1654 rapping1657 whisking1673 threshing1707 sousing1735 nation1765 heroic1785 runaway1790 spanking1791 gigantic1797 whacking1797 cracking1834 ringing1834 bouncing1842 walloping1847 stavingc1850 banging1864 howling1865 whooping1866 smacking1888 God almighty1913 Christ almighty1961 1913 L. Stein Let. 7 Feb. in E. Fuller Journey into Self (1950) i. 53 Both he and Gertude are..in my belief turning out the most Godalmighty rubbish that is to be found. 1918 Scribner's Mag. June 714/1 When you and I get out, I'll give you the God-almightiest lickin' your hide ever got. 1961 R. Lloyd George My Father, Lloyd George 209 You're surrounded by false friends who are using you and building you up to a God-almighty fall. 1998 ‘G. Hunter’ Shooting Gallery xvi. 139 ‘Fire the thing!’ His thumb went down on the clacker. There was the most God-almighty blast. 2013 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 8 June (Life section) 32 Once upon a time, a lesbian or black partner in this family would have caused a god-almighty conniption. Now, no one's fazed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.int.adv.adj.eOE
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