gorry
Appearance
See also: Gorry
English
[edit]Interjection
[edit]gorry
- (archaic, euphemistic) God!
- 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin (Riggs), The Village Watch-Tower[1]:
- She hedn't any particular kind of a nose nor mouth nor eyes, but gorry! when she looked at yer, yer felt kind as if yer was turnin' to putty inside."
- 1912, Gouverneur Morris, IT and Other Stories[2]:
- "By gorry!" says I; "you're right.
- 1920, Franklin P. Adams, Something Else Again[3]:
- No mollycoddle swain am I. I shall not sit and pine, by gorry!