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A.Word.A.Day--blimey![]() ![]() This week's theme: words formed by contraction. blimey (BLY-mee) interjection An expression of surprise, dismay, etc. [Contraction of "blind me" or "blame me", from "God blind/blame me"; sometimes heard in the form gorblimey or corblimey.] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
Other examples of similar euphemistic contractions, mostly out of use,
are:
"And blimey, if Rupert Grint doesn't storm the barricades of boyishness
to find something emergent, touching and vital in Ron Weasley."
X-BonusWar is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. -Desiderius Erasmus, humanist and theologian (1466-1536) |
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