elliptical as an exclamation of impatience. Obsolete.

Expressing contempt, impatience, or disgust, or used to depreciate or dismiss some statement or notion.

Expressing mild exasperation or resignation: ‘what do you expect?’, ‘what can one expect?’.

Expressing caution, surprise, or impatience.

what the Hanover, an expression of irritation or impatience. dialect or colloquial.

An exclamation indicating impatience or exasperation.

colloquial. (God) give me strength: used as an expression of exasperation.

Colloquial phrase for crying out loud, an exclamation expressing astonishment or impatience. Originally U.S.