caramba
/kəˈrambə
/exclamation informal, often humorous
An expression of surprise or dismay: Ay caramba!...
- Loads of Evesham stuff, including 5 fleeces, 10 ‘nearly high quality’ t-shirts, 5 copies of Go Back for Windows 98 (ay caramba!)
- Any parent knows that when you tell a child that something is ‘good’ for them, they tend to run the other way faster than Bart Simpson can say, ‘Ay caramba!’
- No, Oscar won't quit and go out of business and try out for American Idol but he may have to record another CD-aye caramba!
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Spanish.
Rhymes
- world English
- world fair
- world-famous
- World Federation of Trade Unions
- world flight
- worldful
- worldfull
- world ground
- World Health Organization
- World Heritage Site
- world-historic
- world-historical
- world history
- worldhood
- worlding
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- worldish
- world king
- sea turtle
- sea urchin
- Seaver, Tom
- sea wall
- seaward
- seawards
- sea wasp