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zomg

UK/zəʊ̯ ɛm d͡ʒiː/US/zoʊ̯ ɛm d͡ʒiː/

zomg is the alternative letter-case form of ZOMG.

Interjection (1) capitalized: ZOMG

ZOMG

  1. (Internet) An emphatic form of OMG (“oh my God”).
    • HAY CHRSI! WAHT"S GOING ON IN LAKERLAND? ^([sic])
      ZOMG!2003 February 5, Richard Feynman, alt.sports.basketball.nba.boston-celtics (Usenet)
    • I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said that my initial reaction to this machine went something like: ZOMG it's an overgrown Blackberry.^([sic])2007 August, Germaine Ong, “Sony Vaio VGN-UX38GN”, in GameAxis Unwired
    Synonyms:
    wow

Interjection (2) capitalized: zOMG

zOMG

  1. Alternative letter-case form of ZOMG.

Synonyms of zomg

Forms of zomg

alternative formzOMG
alternative formzomg

Origin of zomg

A variant of OMG, presumably from excited users accidentally hitting the Z key while attempting to press shift, or from conscious imitation of such excitement. The term is said to have been coined (likely in the early 2000s) by a Something Awful user named “Rick_Feynman”, in an ICQ chat between him and fellow user “Hannibal” (see also his Usenet message quoted below), though it was already in use before that. Usage of the term on the boards of Something Awful and 4chan has greatly contributed to its popularization.

Words formed from zomg

Questions about zomg

What does zomg mean?
Zomg means an emphatic form of OMG (“oh my God”).
What is zomg the alternative letter-case form of?
Zomg is the alternative letter-case form of ZOMG.
What part of speech is zomg?
Zomg is an interjection.
How do you pronounce zomg?
Zomg is pronounced /zoʊ̯ ɛm d͡ʒiː/ (US).

Words near zomg in the dictionary

  1. zomedies
  2. zomedy
  3. zomepirac
  4. zomes
  5. ZOMFG
  6. zomg
  7. Zomi
  8. Zomia
  9. zomma
  10. zomo
  11. zomos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zomg (page history and authors); ZOMG (page history and authors); zOMG (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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