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how embarrassment

how embarrassment interjection: an expression of embarrassment, either for the speaker or for another individual or group.

Interjection

  1. (Australia, colloquial) An expression of embarrassment, either for the speaker or for another individual or group.
    • Corneliu, just looking back at the stack, i realise its probably not the FileAppender and is as you suggest (and which i knew but forgot) me locking the Console window (how embarrassment!)- I will confirm this next time it locks.2010 June 30, Wolfbyte, “Re: log4net 'deadlock'; 2 app domains”, in ausdotnetlist (Usenet)
    • Hawthorn just allowed Lewis Jetta to kick a goal. How embarrassment. (One goal, nineteen behinds in his first fifteen games.)2010 August 7, David J Richardson, “And we thought the Dons were bad...”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules (Usenet)

Origin of how embarrassment

A catchphrase of Effie Stephanidis, a character who first appeared on the Australian TV show Acropolis Now (1989–1992) and is played by Mary Coustas. Stephanidis is a Greek-Australian, and the phrase is an imitation of the style of English often spoken by immigrants to Australia.

Questions about how embarrassment

What does how embarrassment mean?
How embarrassment means an expression of embarrassment, either for the speaker or for another individual or group.
What part of speech is how embarrassment?
How embarrassment is an interjection.

Words near how embarrassment in the dictionary

  1. how do you mean
  2. how do you pronounce this word
  3. how do you say … in English
  4. how do you sleep at night
  5. how do you spell this word
  6. how embarrassment
  7. how far
  8. how farest thou
  9. how goes it
  10. how goes the battle
  11. how goes the enemy

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