I'll be blowed
UK/ˌaɪl biː ˈbləʊd//ˌaɪl bi ˈbloʊd/
I'll be blowed interjection: used to express amazement and surprise.
Interjection
- Used to express amazement and surprise.
- Well, I’ll be blowed if it isn’t my old school friend, John!
- ‘[…] Luke at that there homnibus; why, darn me—’ and now, in his eloquence at this peculiar point, my friend became more loud and powerful than ever—‘why, darn me, if maister harns enough with that there buss to put hiron on them osses feet, I’ll—be—blowed!’1858, Anthony Trollope, chapter XV, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 5
- Synonyms:
- blow me, blow me down, blow me over, blow me pink, blow me tight, crikey, gosh, I'm blowed, adzooks, ay
Synonyms of I'll be blowed
- blow me
- blow me down
- blow me over
- crikey
- gosh
- I'm blowed
- ay
- caramba
- mirabile dictu
- chihuahua
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- bleeding heck
- bleeding Nora
- bless my heart
- bless my soul
- bless us
- blige
- blimey
- bloody hell
- bloody Nora
- 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
Forms of I'll be blowed
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Origin of I'll be blowed
Probably a hyperbole expressing that the speaker is so surprised it is as if they have been blown over by a gust of wind: compare blow me down and blow me over, and also knock someone over with a feather, which have the same sense. Used as a euphemism for I'll be damned; compare also blasted.
Words that rhyme with I'll be blowed
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- abode
- bode
- choad
- corrode
- encode
- goad
- toad
- antipode
- decode
- episode
- erode
- forebode
- hoed
- incommode
- overrode
- recode
- rode
- strode
- throwed
- unicode
- woad
- 'splode
- bestowed
- cestode
- chode
- crowed
- discommode
- glode
- Gold Code
- grode
- growed
- hode
- lowed
- mowed
- nuclear code
- ode
- owed
- shode
- side road
- Spanish Road
- stroad
- subnode
- tode
- toed
- towed
- Union Road
- uudecode
- uuencode
Questions about I'll be blowed
- What does I'll be blowed mean?
- I'll be blowed means used to express amazement and surprise.
- What part of speech is I'll be blowed?
- I'll be blowed is an interjection.
- How do you pronounce I'll be blowed?
- I'll be blowed is pronounced /ˌaɪl biː ˈbləʊd/ (UK).
Words near I'll be blowed in the dictionary
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