Definitions
Wiktionary
- interj. "Oh, God!"
- interj. uh-oh!, "woe is me!"
- interj. "Enough already."
Etymologies
- From Yiddish אױ גװאַלד (oy gvald). (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oy gevalt’.
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•Public List: Delightful Ejaculations
All those awesome phrases you hear that you want to say every chance you get. Thanks to adoarns for the inspiration (on the vitamin h page).
just tits, jumping jesus on ..., sweet mother of p..., great day in the ..., ye gods and littl..., leaping lizards, holy cats, hot damn, good gosh miss agnes, mother dog, good night, hoover dam! and 102 more...
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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The blues
lugubrious, mournful, doleful, plaintive, tremulous, plangent, dyspeptic, morose, poignant, lamenting, lamentation, sad and 8 more...
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Foreign glossa
apparat, kobold, haimish, faklempt, nudnik, nebbish, bubbe meise, bupkis, chinook, oy gevalt, geronimo, banzai and 6 more...
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Yiddish
chutzpah, kvetch, mensch, nosh, oy vey, putz, schmuck, shiksa, tchotchke, schlep, shtik, gornisht and 6 more...
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