hell! excl.
a general expletive.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Case Is Altered III i: Mischief and hell! what is this man? | |
| Revenger’s Tragedy (1967) III vi: Hell and torments! | |
| Virgin-Martyr IV i: doct.: Let him have some music. anton.: Hell on your fiddling! | |
| Ordinary IV i: Hell! — Death! — Damn’d luck! | |
| An Evening’s Love IV i: Hell and Furies! | |
| Love in the Dark I i: Hell and Damnation! | |
| Man of Mode II i: And dare you own it to my face? Hell and furies! | |
| [ | | (attrib.) Sodom IV v: virtuoso: My power long since was in yt puddle drowned: / Loe and behold my seed lies on ye ground. fuckadilla: Hell on’t, tis soe [she seemes ill disposed] Oh madam, I’me Curst]. |
| Woman’s Wit III vii: S’death and Hell! Sir! you don’t think I’ll take this? | |
| She Would and She Would Not IV i: Death! and Hell! | |
| Beaux’ Strategem V iii: Sir Charles Freeman! ’sdeath and hell! my old acquaintance. | |
| Sawney 25: Death! Hell! and Furies! | |
| Boarding-School 25: Hell and Fire! | |
| Peregrine Pickle (1964) 379: By hell and brimstone! | |
| Belle’s Stratagem IV ii: Hell and ten thousand furies seize you all together! | |
| Pettyfogger Dramatized II vi: Hell and Furies! | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Lafitte 30: ‘Hell and furies!’ cried he. | |
| Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 2 Apr. n.p.: H— and scissors, yelled C—. | |
| Nick of the Woods III ii: By hell, to be thus braved by a puny girl! | |
| Twelve Years A Slave 59: New-York! H--l! what have you been doing up there? | |
| Wild Boys of London I 263/2: ‘Hell!’ he said, with a sudden outburst. | |
| White Rose 178: By h-ll, I will! | |
| Saddle and Mocassin 172: If they catch you altering a brand – hell! that’s a penitentiary job. | |
| Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 2 Aug. 11/2: ‘Hell and blazes!’ exclaimed the driver. | |
| ‘The Sheriff and His Partner’ Elder Conklin & Other Stories (1895) 98: ‘Hell!’ There was savage rage and menace in the exclamation. | |
| Marvel 22 Oct. 2: Hellup! Why you clumped on my toes. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | ‘Half A Man’ in Chisholm (1951) 105: Smith makes a funny noise, an’ I sez, ‘Ell!’. | |
| Bulldog Drummond 165: Hell! [...] I thought we might get something out of him. | |
| Marvel 10 July 3: Hellup! Here are two, my dear old flounder! | |
 | Decatur Herald (IL) 12 Apr. 8/1: He’s not the breezy, jovial ‘Hell ’n Maria’ Dawes who was the despair of a [...] investigating committtee. | |
| Down and Out in Complete Works I (1986) 141: Dey makes you say a lot o’ bloody prayers after; but hell! It all passes de time away. | |
| What’s In It For Me? 16: ‘Yeah, but hell, Mr Bogen,’ he said. | |
| (con. 1944) Naked and Dead 291: Six month’s, hell, what am I gonna do for tonight? | |
| Tomboy (1952) 24: Hell, it’s great to have money in your pockets. | |
| Last Detail 122: Well, hellfire, I’m happy to be in your company. | |
| Stand On It (1979) 158: ‘Hellfire,’ the old man would say. | |
| Of Minnie the Moocher and Me 49: Hell, everybody’s made mistakes. | |
| Patriot Game (1985) 19: Oh, hell! I don’t know. | |
| Corner (1998) 11: Hell, a working, viable caper is to be celebrated. | |
| Shame the Devil 46: Hell, he didn’t even like cigarettes. | |
| Our Town 284: ‘That’s right,’ Dusty concurred. ‘And hell, they come to his door, and he’d run ’em off.’. |
In exclamations
see separate entry.
an excl. of denial, absolutely not!
| Thieves Like Us (1999) 60: Hell no, you black bastard. | |
| Die Nigger Die! 56: I resented somebody telling me I couldn’t eat at a certain place. It wasn’t that I wanted to eat there. Hell no! | |
| Brown’s Requiem 121: ‘So you sent him to the dog track, right?’ ‘Hell no, man. I sent him to see my cousin.’. | |
| Workin’ It 147: My mother wasn’t religious. Hell no. Shit. No way. |
an affirmative excl.
| Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 186: People asked had the Titanic gone down. / Shine said, ‘Hell, yeah.’. | |
| Hell’s Angels (1967) 92: Hell, yes, I’ll take a blow-job any day for ten bucks. | |
| Street Talk 2. | |
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 puffy Definition: 1:to be getting oral sex. Example: Aw hell yeah! You know that I’m loving that puffy, girl. | |
| Check the Technique 170: ‘She chose the groups who would appear on In Living Color and we were like “Oh, hell yeah!”’. |