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Etymologies
- From [God] blind me!, corrupted to disguise the blasphemous nature of the oath. Compare 'sblood, strewth, zounds, etc. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I've just been laughing out loud at Uber's and Dearieme's and love Welhcakes' 'blimey'.”
“Mr. Mitchell is from Essex, England, and I actually wrote the words "blimey" and "mate" in a text the other day and had to punch myself in the chest.”
“For example: Londoners under the age of 50 do not as a rule us the word "blimey"...”
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #148 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
“It's the sort of fixture for which the word 'crikey o'blimey' was invented.”
“Even though we've explained how bad things are people will still think 'blimey'," one ministerial aide told me yesterday.”
“We know Britian appreciates the old classics, but blimey, what's the deal?”
“And blimey Berbatov has just curled a powerful shot just past the post when he really should have scored.”
The Guardian: Bursaspor v Manchester United - as it happened
“There is another word which follows the pattern which is the cockney blimey, a corruption of (God) blind me, usually followed by, 'if I'm not telling the truth', or something similar.”
“Gorblimey -- a variant on blimey, which Mike Hardcastle above notes means "God blind me”
“I love the show and in particular I like that fellow from London – cor blimey mate!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blimey’.
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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"Queen's" English
Collection of words from Old Blighty
sorted, sketchy, mate, oi, innit, ol' chum, brilliant, wicked, arse, bloody, bollocks, wanker and 12 more...
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artbizness - A Wordie Newbie on a Mis...
The Story of my first few days on Wordie.
spatchcock, mokusatsu, mokusatsu, spargepipe, blimey, labyrinthine, bufflehead, lol, word-lubber, screed, worded gentry, bamboozle and 1 more...
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britishisms
A tip of my hat to the snarkiest of English dialects. Here here!
Ponce, snog, bloody, barmy, blasted, blooming, bleeding, knackered, poppycock, wanker, tosser, cracked and 52 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Britishness
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Niels's Words
bien-pensant, pro re nata, zeitgeist, naïve, quod erat demonst..., dramastic, mélange, amanuensis, heuristic, hermeneutic, gist, gumption and 157 more...
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theastic's Words
cellar, stalemate, wrought, opal, tyrant, squelch, squab, linen, tartan, paisley, scope, siren and 395 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Only on Wordie/Wordnik
Okay, mostly on Wordie. But it's more fun here anyway.
brannock device, polari, stupidhead, in toto, nounal, flustrated, stuffocate, firkin, full-assed, placeholder name, pro-text, cheesequake and 408 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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The Motherland! (God Bless the Queen)
Words that remind me of England, which I miss very much.
snog, nappy, wanker, telly, knickers, crumpet, pants, bum, loo, bollocks, stroppy, whinge and 108 more...
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Valse's Words
fastidious, fervent, bellicose, personification, onomatopoeia, burly, concomitant, tempura, serendipity, pecuniary, foment, chum and 418 more...
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B is for Blue Canary
My B Words
bugbear, bette davis eyes, backstroke, barney, babushka, babycakes, backscratcher, bad news bears, balderdash, ballyhoo, baloney, bamboozle and 150 more...
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exclamations
expletive, blimey, okey dokey, whatchamacallit, oops, ooh, sheesh, lo and behold, phew, golly, bam, yikes and 13 more...
Tweets
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artbizness This is possibly my most over-used word at the moment. Sep 18, 2008
reesetee Then our work here is done. :-) Dec 8, 2007
asativum Gimpork, but this gets my vote for one of the funniest comment exchanges on Wordie! Dec 8, 2007
arby c.f. crikey Oct 11, 2007
reesetee Sounds like a podiatrist's problem to me. Oct 11, 2007
chained_bear Oh, that's much better. "Gunion, why didn't I think of that?!" Wait... maybe gunnion to ensure pronunciation doesn't mirror that of union? Oct 11, 2007
uselessness Or gunion for short? :-P Oct 11, 2007
chained_bear I think if you were saying "God impale me with a fork!" really quickly, that it might come out "Gimfork!" instead. (Or, to be tediously anal about it, "Gompalem'fork!" But that's just silly.)
Just a thought. I like "G'droponion!" myself. That's short for "God do something faintly unpleasant to me, like drop an onion on my head!" Oct 11, 2007
niels Steven Pinker coberates oroboros's < a href="entymology">http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20071008&s=pinker100807">entymology Oct 11, 2007
reesetee Ow. Jul 19, 2007
oroboros Certainly a lot more painful than znoogie (God's noogie)! Jul 19, 2007
uselessness More like, "if I'm lying, may God drive a small pointed object through the entirety of my body, piercing all my vital organs and killing me in a most painful and torturous manner." It's not something you say lightly. ;-) Jul 19, 2007
trivet Is that akin to "stick a fork in me, I'm done"? Jul 19, 2007
reesetee That's bloody brilliant! ;-) Jul 19, 2007
uselessness I'm going to invent a new one. Gimpork! God impale me with a fork! Just keeping the tradition alive. Jul 19, 2007
arby It's so extreme, I love it. Way to go overboard there, 17th-century cursers! Jul 18, 2007
brtom "God blimey if she aint a clinker, that there bleeding tart."
Joyce, Ulysses, 12 Jan 13, 2007
oroboros comes from the oath "may god blind me" Dec 10, 2006