English
Etymology
Altered from God. First seen in 1757 as by gosh, probably from by gosse in Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (circa 1553).
Pronunciation
Interjection
gosh
- (minced oath, euphemistic) A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wow
Gosh, I didn’t realize I’d cause so much trouble!
Gosh, I’d love to go to that concert!
Derived terms
Translations
mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm
- Armenian: Աստվա՜ծ իմ (Astva!c im)
- Catalan: ostres (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 唉 (zh) (āi), 啊呀 (zh) (āyā)
- Dutch: gossie (nl)
- Esperanto: ĉielo (eo)
- Finnish: jukra (fi), jumpe (fi), juku (fi), samperi (fi), peijakas (fi)
- French: bon sang (fr)
- Galician: carai, carafio, diola
- German: meine Güte, Mensch (de), Mann (de)
- Greek: αμάν (el) (amán)
- Hiligaynon: abá
- Italian: perbacco (it), accidenti (it), diamine, accipicchia (it)
- Macedonian: ле́ле (mk) (léle), (О) Бо́же (Bóže)!
- Maori: aeha, ēhe, ai, wī, āwaiā
- Norwegian: jøss, jøsses, jøssenam
- Polish: kurczę (pl), o matko, jeju, jejku (pl), jej (pl), o ja cię, a to ci dopiero
- Portuguese: meu Deus (pt), nossa (pt)!, poxa (pt), puxa (pt), caramba! (pt) f, com a breca!
- Russian: (О) Бо́же (ru) (Bóže)!
- Spanish: Dios mío, caramba (es), cáspita, jolines (es), joroba (es), caracoles (es), pardiez
- Swedish: jisses (sv), jösses (sv)
- Turkish: Allah Allah, anne (tr) (childish), aneyy (colloquial,, dialectal)
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