cor! excl.
a euph. for God!
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Angel Pavement 201: Cor! – you’re in the wrong part of the theatre, boy. | |
| in Mass-Observation War Factory: Report 11: ‘Cor stiffen the crows!’ he exclaims. ‘Look at the fire!’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Aus. Vulgarisms [t/s] 6: God: gad, egad, cor, gawd, gosh, golly, gawblimey, gawstruth, good god, good grief, by ghost, goldarn it, for gorsake, for goshsake, my goodness, by gum. | |
| Three-Ha’Pence to the Angel 53: Cor! Some of ’em oughter see me now! | |
| Up the Junction 13: ‘Cor,’ says Rube, ‘what a stink.’. | |
| Speaking of Jennings (1989) 151: Cor! You didn’t half give me a proper old chase. | |
| Train to Hell 80: Cor, I bet you all have a great laugh when you get together. Cor! My grandma loves you. | |
| Now You Know 61: Cor, Terry, that was a quick slash! | |
| (con. 1932) Beyond Nab End 33: ‘Caw!’ he said. |
In exclamations
see gorblimey! excl.
in var. ext. forms, as a general excl. of astonishment or incredulity.
| Ordeal by Fire 27: ‘Cor, chase me round my stirrup-pump,’ cried Nathaniel Gubbins, and the authorities were content, the public pleased and the Luftwaffe duly impressed. | |
| Officer and Gentleman (1951) 253: Cor — chase me Aunt Fanny up a pear tree. | |
| Jeeves in the Offing 61: [She] said ‘Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up a gum tree’ adding that you never knew what was going to happen next. | |
 | www.joltcountry.com 🌐 Oh, what a great idea! Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up a gum tree! | |
| Indep. Rev. 11 Feb. 5: Well, cor chase my Aunt Fanny round a mulberry bush. Is that the best they can do? | |
| at www.philipson.info 4 Feb. 🌐 Blow me down. Cor chase my aunt Fannie with a gas jet. It might happen, and it might not. |
a mild euph. oath, lit. ‘God love me!’.
| Sporting Sketches in Sportsman (Melbourne) (18/10/1898) 5/7: ‘Why, lord lumme! we could git the stuff ’ere [...] like makin’ bally ’ay’. | |
| At Suvla Bay Ch. ix: Gordlummy, look at the d---d flies! | |
| [perf. Vesta Victoria] If that ain’t life, wot is? 🎵 Lor lumme, wen I finks abart the flappers up in tahn / Wot works in shops and orfices, and travels up and dahn. | |
| Gaudy Night 370: ‘Lor’ lumme!’ I says, ‘there’s old Winderpane gawn.’. | |
| They Die with Their Boots Clean 76: Cor damme and lumme! | |
| Come in Spinner (1960) 240: Cor lumme, the langwidge! | |
| DSUE (8th edn) 254/2: mid-C.19–20. |