holy shit

English

Etymology

From holy and shit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌhəʊli ˈʃɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌhoʊli ˈʃɪt/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Interjection

holy shit!

1. (idiomatic, vulgar, slang) Expression of terror, awe, surprise, astonishment, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.

   Holy shit, that car just exploded!

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:wow

Translations

expression of surprise or the like

• Bulgarian: мамка му да еба (mamka mu da eba), пичка му матерна (pička mu materna), ебати (ebati)
• Catalan: me cago en Déu!, me cago en Déu, en la creu i en el fuster que la féu!
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天啊 (zh) (tiān a)

• Esperanto: damne (eo), fek (eo), diable (eo)
• Finnish: jukoliste (fi), jumalauta (fi)
• French: bon Dieu de merde, bordel de merde (fr), putain de merde (fr), nom de Dieu (fr)
• German: Ach du Scheiße, heilige Scheiße!
• Greek: γαμώτο (el) n (gamóto)
• Hungarian: basszus (hu), a kurva életbe, bassza meg
• Italian: porca puttana f, merda (it) f, sticazzi, me cojoni (Romanesco)
• Jamaican Creole: bloodclaat, bomboclaat, rassclaat, pussyclaat
• Japanese: やばい (ja) (yabai)
• Javanese: cocoté, cobroté, matané, biangané, trukbyangané, trukbyangané silit
• Korean: 와 씨발 (wa ssibal)
• Latvian: pie velna, svētais sūds
• Polish: o kurwa! (pl), ja pierdolę! (pl)
• Portuguese: puta que pariu! (pt), puta merda! (pt), é de cair o cu da bunda
• Romanian: să-mi fut una, să-mi bag pula (ro), să moară pula, pizda mă-sii, morții mă-sii, vai de pula mea, vai de morții mei
• Russian: срань госпо́дня (ru) (sranʹ gospódnja), ё моё (jo mojó), бля́ха-му́ха (ru) (bljáxa-múxa), ебать! (ru) (jebatʹ!), ёбанный в рот (jóbannyj v rot), охуеть (ru) (oxujetʹ), ёб твою мать (job tvoju matʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јеботе, у пичку материну, јебем ти матер

  Roman: jebote, u pičku materinu, jebem ti mater

• Silesian: jasny pjerůn
• Slovak: kurva! f, ty vole!, ty brďo!, ty kokot!, čo ti jebe!
• Spanish: ¡mierda! (es), ¡me cago en la leche!, ¡me cago en Dios! (es), ¡hostia! (es), ¡hostia puta!
• Swedish: herrejävlar (sv), satan i gatan (sv), helvete (sv)
• Thai: เหี้ย (th) (hîia), เชี่ย (th) (chîia), เย็ดเข้ (yét-kêe), เข้ (th) (kêe)
• Turkish: oha (tr), çüş (tr), yok artık, ha siktir (vulgar)
• Vietnamese: vãi (vi)

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