gosh
/ɡɒʃ//ɡɑːʃ/
gosh interjection: a mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
Interjection
- A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
- Gosh, I didn’t realize I’d cause so much trouble!
- Gosh, I’d love to go to that concert!
- Synonyms:
- adzooks, ay, caramba, mirabile dictu, chihuahua, begorra, bleeding heck, bleeding Nora, bless my heart, bless my soul
Proper noun (1) capitalized: GOSH
GOSH
- Initialism of Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Gosh
Gosh
- A surname.
Examples of gosh in a sentence
- Gosh, it's a bit nippy today: I'd better wear my gloves.
- Oh, gosh, golly, I made a boo-boo, and I gave it to Stephen Hawking!
- Gosh, this is the beautest present I've ever had, and it's not even my birthday yet.
Synonyms of gosh
- ay
- caramba
- mirabile dictu
- chihuahua
- bleeding heck
- bleeding Nora
- bless my heart
- bless my soul
- bless us
- blige
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- blimey
- bloody hell
- bloody Nora
- blow me down
- butter my butt and call me a biscuit
- by all that is holy
- by Allah
- by cracky
- by George
- by God
- by golly
- by gosh
- by gum
- by gummy
- by jingo
- by Jove
- by juckies
- by Jupiter
- by thunder
- by the living jingo
- Christ
- Christ alive
- Christ almighty
- Christ on a bike
- Christ on a cracker
- Christ on a raft
- Christ on a stick
- Christ on a crutch
- coo
- cor
Origin of gosh
Altered from God. First seen in 1757 as by gosh, probably from by gosse in Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (circa 1553).
Words formed from gosh
Phrases with gosh
Words that rhyme with gosh
Questions about gosh
- What does gosh mean?
- Gosh means a mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
- What part of speech is gosh?
- Gosh can be an interjection or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce gosh?
- Gosh is pronounced /ɡɒʃ/ (UK).
Words near gosh in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gosh (page history and authors); GOSH (page history and authors); Gosh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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