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gosh

interjectioncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɡɒʃ//
  • United States//ɡɑːʃ//

A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.

interjection

  1. 1

    A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.

    Gosh, I didn’t realize I’d cause so much trouble!

    Gosh, I’d love to go to that concert!

Etymology

Altered from God. First seen in 1757 as by gosh, probably from by gosse in Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (circa 1553).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).