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gosh

 (gŏsh)
interj.
Used to express mild surprise or delight.

[Alteration of God.]
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gosh

(ɡɒʃ)
interj
an exclamation of mild surprise or wonder
[C18: euphemistic for God, as in by gosh!]
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gosh

(gɒʃ)

interj.
(used as an exclamation of surprise or as a mild oath.)
[1750–60; euphemistic alter. of God]
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Translations
يا الله! تعبير تعجُّب
hrome!kruci!
du milde!
¡cielos!Dios mío
bon sangfichtre
vá!, je minn!
va tai tau!
vai traks!
presneto
Hay Allah!ÜffVay anasını!Vay!

gosh

[gɒʃ] EXCL¡cielos!
gosh darn! (US) → ¡caramba!
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

gosh

[ˈgɒʃ] excl (old-fashioned)mince alors !
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

gosh

interjMensch (inf), → Mann (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

gosh

[gɒʃ] excl (fam) → cribbio!, perdinci!
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

gosh

(goʃ) interjection
an expression of surprise.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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'Gosh!' into an expression of enthusiastic approbation.
"Gosh!" he said aloud, mopping the sweat and fog from his face.
And "Gosh!" he said once again, while rolling a cigarette and as he pondered the problem of getting back.
"Gosh!" was all Dave vouchsafed, and with this utterance passed out of the offices and the story.
Here they come ag'in!" The man who had sprawled upon the ground started up and said, "Gosh!"
"They plumb e't all the bacon and prunes and sugar and dog-food," Elijah reported, "and gosh darn my buttons, if they didn't gnaw open the sacks and scatter the flour and beans and rice from Dan to Beersheba.
An' right here an' now I name this yere canyon 'All Gold Canyon,' b' gosh!"
Shuttleworthy had a sad habit of swearing, although he seldom went beyond "Od rot me," or "By gosh," or "By the jolly golly,") -- "Od rot me," says he, "if I don't send an order to town this very afternoon for a double box of the best that can be got, and I'll make ye a present of it, I will!
If working every day were not my trade, I could get all the meat I should want by hunting-pigeons, woodchucks, rabbits, partridges -- by gosh! I could get all I should want for a week in one day."
"Gosh!" said Dan at last, from the very bottom of his soul, when Harvey had completed an inventory of the car named in his honour.
Salah Gosh, the former head of the Sudanese intelligence and security services, on July 10, 2013, in Khartoum (AFP Photo)
Salah Gosh and his close family members were made ineligible for entry into the United States due to his involvement in gross violations of human rights.