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I've just been laughing out loud at Uber's and Dearieme's and love Welhcakes' 'blimey'.
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Mr. Mitchell is from Essex, England, and I actually wrote the words "blimey" and "mate" in a text the other day and had to punch myself in the chest.
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For example: Londoners under the age of 50 do not as a rule us the word "blimey"...
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #148 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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It's the sort of fixture for which the word 'crikey o'blimey' was invented.
BBC News - Home 2011
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It's the sort of fixture for which the word 'crikey o'blimey' was invented.
BBC News - Home 2011
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It's the sort of fixture for which the word 'crikey o'blimey' was invented.
BBC News - Home 2011
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"Even though we've explained how bad things are people will still think 'blimey'," one ministerial aide told me yesterday.
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We know Britian appreciates the old classics, but blimey, what's the deal?
From HULK to 'ZITS': 4 Things We Learned This Week About Hollywood's Comics Projects Michael Cavna 2010
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And blimey Berbatov has just curled a powerful shot just past the post when he really should have scored.
Bursaspor v Manchester United - as it happened Barney Ronay 2010
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There is another word which follows the pattern which is the cockney blimey, a corruption of (God) blind me, usually followed by, 'if I'm not telling the truth', or something similar.
oroboros commented on the word blimey
comes from the oath "may god blind me"
December 11, 2006
brtom commented on the word blimey
"God blimey if she aint a clinker, that there bleeding tart."
Joyce, Ulysses, 12
January 13, 2007
arby commented on the word blimey
It's so extreme, I love it. Way to go overboard there, 17th-century cursers!
July 19, 2007
uselessness commented on the word blimey
I'm going to invent a new one. Gimpork! God impale me with a fork! Just keeping the tradition alive.
July 19, 2007
reesetee commented on the word blimey
That's bloody brilliant! ;-)
July 19, 2007
trivet commented on the word blimey
Is that akin to "stick a fork in me, I'm done"?
July 19, 2007
uselessness commented on the word blimey
More like, "if I'm lying, may God drive a small pointed object through the entirety of my body, piercing all my vital organs and killing me in a most painful and torturous manner." It's not something you say lightly. ;-)
July 19, 2007
oroboros commented on the word blimey
Certainly a lot more painful than znoogie (God's noogie)!
July 19, 2007
reesetee commented on the word blimey
Ow.
July 19, 2007
niels commented on the word blimey
Steven Pinker coberates oroboros's < a href="http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20071008&s=pinker100807">entymology
October 11, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word blimey
I think if you were saying "God impale me with a fork!" really quickly, that it might come out "Gimfork!" instead. (Or, to be tediously anal about it, "Gompalem'fork!" But that's just silly.)
Just a thought. I like "G'droponion!" myself. That's short for "God do something faintly unpleasant to me, like drop an onion on my head!"
October 11, 2007
uselessness commented on the word blimey
Or gunion for short? :-P
October 11, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word blimey
Oh, that's much better. "Gunion, why didn't I think of that?!" Wait... maybe gunnion to ensure pronunciation doesn't mirror that of union?
October 11, 2007
reesetee commented on the word blimey
Sounds like a podiatrist's problem to me.
October 11, 2007
arby commented on the word blimey
c.f. crikey
October 11, 2007
asativum commented on the word blimey
Gimpork, but this gets my vote for one of the funniest comment exchanges on Wordie!
December 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word blimey
Then our work here is done. :-)
December 9, 2007
artbizness commented on the word blimey
This is possibly my most over-used word at the moment.
September 18, 2008