blimey

Meanings

1. 1
   intj

   an informal British exclamation expressing surprise, excitement, anger, or alarm

   Blimey, I did not expect the repair to cost that much!

A late nineteenth-century British minced oath, shortened from cor blimey or gorblimey and ultimately from (God) blind me; blame me may also have influenced the form. Its religious force has largely disappeared.

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