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English
Etymology
Seventeenth-century British variant of oh my God, probably intended to avoid blasphemy.[1][2] Compare Danish I guder.
Pronunciation
Interjection
ye gods
- (idiomatic, dated, euphemistic) Used to express surprise or incredulity.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 2”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the line of the equator; yea, ye gods! go down to the fiery pit itself, in order to keep out this frost?
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Translations
expression of surprise or incredulity
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