Etymologies
- Representing a Cockney pronunciation of God blind me!; in medieval times, people would curse using contractions rather than breaking the third commandment (Do not use the Lord's name in vain oaths). Compare strewth, zounds, 'sblood. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“All we need now is someone in gorblimey trousers and I'll be well away...”
“Today has been a reading day and I am going from the gorblimey to the sublime today.”
“From Gissing to Patterson is rather like from the sublime to the gorblimey.”
“But" - he sighed and looked around the noisy glittering place, at the smart barmaids, the well-clad throng of loungers, some in evening dress, the half-dozen gorgeous ladies sitting with men at little tables by the window -- "I thinks as how you gets more real happiness in a quiet village pub, and the beer is cheaper, and -- gorblimey!”
“I thinks as how you gets more real happiness in a quiet village pub, and the beer is cheaper, and -- gorblimey!”
“Less gorblimey ska, more emotional tug - Lily Allen is heading in the right direction in this demanding and exciting role, you will work ….”
“At times what the Telegraph called Lily's "mannered gorblimey" irritates rather than amuses though it has to be said that "Never Gonna Happen" fuses electro-pop sounds to Abba immediacy to make a hugely catchy sound.”
“The only time the audience responds to the words is when the music stops, and the speaking characters - the gorblimey Guard, the wooden Messenger - can tell the story unimpeded.”
“Mostly it is fun, funny, entertaining, informative, and thought-provoking, punningly operating at the same time on a high intellectual level and low gorblimey one.”
“If ever an opposition was given a heaven-sent series of gorblimey gaffes from a government, it’s this one.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gorblimey’.
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englishable, toesmithing, zwimmer, woad, wherefore, bobance, pediluvium, ruff, anteloquy, februation, lungeous, chalm and 357 more...
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originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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M'ogle
As to feature the creature "mog".
cosmogony, transmogrify, glom, golem, mog, mogul, moggy, smog, demogenic, cormogeny, seismograph, primogenitor and 359 more...
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minced oaths
expostulations which originated as euphemisms for a stronger, socially unsanctioned, word or expression
strewth, zounds, land sakes, jiminy cricket, gorblimey, drat, begorrah, cripes, doggone it, gadzooks, odds bodkins, sacre bleu and 78 more...
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Bizarre Exclamations
zounds, jings, rapscallion, gadzooks, balderdash, knickers in a twist, the spawn of the ..., heavens to murgat..., tickety boo, jim dandy, pickledy poo, goody gumdrops and 33 more...
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Exclamation words!
Oh my!
gadzooks, wowsers, jinkies, wowee, eureka, hurrah, huzzah, tada, elementary, geronimo, timber, voila and 15 more...
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sionnach God blind me! Feb 14, 2007