lawdy! excl.
a mild excl.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Louisiana and Mississippi Almanac in Humor of the Old Deep South (1936) 490: O loddy! dere was ebber so many ob ’em die. | |
 | Hesperian Aug. 178/2: O, Lordy! Mas’ Vandunk, I no tell. I frightum half to deff myself. | |
| Gleaner (Manchester, NH) 15 Apr. n.p.: Lordy-massy! I sartingly should get sheared and shaved. | |
| Symbol and Odd Fellows’ Mag. 15 Jan. 242: O Lordy! I’m dead! I’m dead! Oh, Lordy! I’m dead! [...] O Lordy! I’ve broken my neck! | |
| Keowee Courier (Pickens Court Hse, SC) 26 Oct. 1/4: Oh! Lordy! Lordy! all my brains blowed clean out! | |
| Nashville Union & American (TN) 18 May 2/3: ‘Oh, Lordy!’ says I. | |
| ‘Sut Lovingoods Chest Story’ Nashville Union and American XXIX June in Inge (1967) 123: Oh Lordy!, Gus, love? we hev ruinated our sefs. | |
| Night Side of N.Y. 119: O Lordy, here’s Horace, jist see his git up. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Dundee Courier 28 Sept. 3/2: Deacon Bangs is a Christian, but lordy massy, he’s one o’ yer dreffle ugly kind o’ Christians. | |
| Slaver’s Adventures 29: Lordy, you don’t want to ruin dis nigger — does you? | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Feb. 9/2: Lordy! what tender-hearted, easily-gulled creatures some girls are, to be sure! | |
| Truth (Sydney) 17 Mar. 7/7: Lordy, how the crowd cheered me for my pluck and fair play. | |
| M.S. Bradford Special 45: Murder! Oh, Lordy! | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Rat 185: Lordy, how ill I was for two days! | |
| Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 5 Oct. 3/4: It’s a queer climate, sure enough, but lordy-lordy, how we love it. | |
| Northerner 240: Lawdy, don’t I wisht I had er piece er M’lindy’s cawn bread. | |
| Hist. of Mr Polly (1946) 91: ‘Lordy!’ cried the girl. | |
| ‘Stingaree Blues’ 🎵 Hey, lordy, lordy! | |
| Nigger Heaven 278: Lawdy ain’t her legs skinny! | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | More Pricks than Kicks 83: ‘Oh Lawdee!’ he gushed [...] ‘don’t tell me I’m the first!’. | |
| ‘You’re My Meat’ 🎵 You’re fat and forty, / But lordy, lordy, you’re my meat! | |
| House of Fury (1959) 74: ‘Lordy,’ said Mary Lee. | |
| Breaking of Bumbo (1961) 129: Lawdie, Bumboboy, they’re pulling the chain nice and early. | |
| Affairs of Gidget 114: Sweet lordie on a bicycle! | |
| Awopbop. (1970) 163: They’d sing their blues, dem lawdy-lawdy blues, all about those cottonfields back home. | |
| Last Toke 23: ‘Lawdy, she talk that talk!’ Richie said. | |
| Viz June–July 28: Lordy! I’ve accidentally left the brake off. | |
| Observer Rev. 30 May 9: ‘Lordy, lordy. I got plenty to grin about,’ he says. | |
| Royal Family 631: Well, lordy lordy day, as Maj would say. |