gorblimey
/ɡɔːˈblʌɪmi
/British informal
exclamation
An expression of surprise or indignation.And gorblimey: this new player has everything I wanted....
- Gorblimey! A poster on the thread about modern hymns for drunks tells me Estelle White is rhyming slang.
adjective [attributive]
Vulgarly lower-class: a gorblimey accent...
- That Danny Whitten song is actually rather lovely, whereas the Pistols, epochal as they were in cultural terms, were pretty much just hoary old barre-chords and some gorblimey vocals.
- The self-styled ‘rockney’ duo use this Christmas knees-up to celebrate one of the more remarkable turnarounds in fortune in recent pop history: from reviled gorblimey joke to critically acclaimed, Libertines-endorsed, Glastonbury-slaying stars.
Origin
Late 19th century: alteration of God blind me; also in use as a noun in the early 20th century to denote various kinds of unusual clothing.
Rhymes
- indefensible
- indefensibly
- in deference to
- indefinable
- indefinably
- indefinite
- indefinite article
- indefinite integral
- indefinitely
- indefiniteness
- indefinite pronoun
- indehiscence
- indehiscent
- indelibility
- indelible
- indelibly
- indelicacy
- indelicate
- indelicately
- in demand
- indemnification
- indemnifier
- indemnify
- indemnity
- indemnity fund