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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--blimey This week's theme: words formed by contraction. blimey (BLY-mee) interjection An expression of surprise, dismay, etc. [Contraction of "blind me" or "blame me", from "God blind/blame me"; sometimes heard in the form gorblimey or corblimey.] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) Other examples of similar euphemistic contractions, mostly out of use, are: Strewth: God's truth 'sblood: God's blood Lassy me: Lord save me "And blimey, if Rupert Grint doesn't storm the barricades of boyishness to find something emergent, touching and vital in Ron Weasley." Peter Travers; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Rolling Stone (New York); Jun 29, 2007. X-Bonus War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. -Desiderius Erasmus, humanist and theologian (1466-1536)

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