strewth
/struːθ
/(also struth)
exclamation British informal
Used to express surprise or dismay.He's maybe just gone down the wrong road, and, God strewth, we've all done that from time to time....
- Forget ‘strewth ‘and ‘fuller than a seaside dunny on Boxing Day‘.
- The newspapers in Australia use slang words and phrases like ‘strewth’ and ‘that's a crock’ in their editorials.
Origin
Late 19th century: contraction of God's truth.
Rhymes
- idiom
- idiomacy
- idiomatic
- idiomatical
- idiomatically
- idiomaticalness
- idiomaticism
- idiomaticity
- idiomatism
- idiometer
- Idiom Neutral
- idiomorphic
- idiomorphism
- idiomuscular
- idionomy
- idiopathetic
- idiopathetically
- idiopathic
- idiopathical
- idiopathically
- idiopathy
- idiophone
- idiophoneme
- idiophonemic
- idiophrenic