oh, my God

A form of oh my god — Said in supplication to God.

Meanings

interjection
  1. alternativeAlternative form of oh my God.

    "Oh, my God!" he cried. "He's invented photography." "What hath God wrought?" said the old man, trying to get up.

    1925, Donald Ogden Stewart, The Crazy Fool, page 224
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    One thing she has noticed over the years, Dorothea says, is that "he's developed more of a sense of humor. Now, when he'll crack a joke, I'll say, 'Oh, my God, who are you and what have you done with my husband?'"

    2002 November, Tom Gliatto, “Local boy makes good”, in People, volume 58, number 22, page 114

    “There are girls at school we call tanorexic,” the teen said. “They are obsessed with tanning, they go in the beds every day and, oh, my God, it’s so gross, they look so dark it’s like walking skin cancer.”

    2003 August 20, Julia Sommerfeld, “Skin-cancer risk not enough to scare teens who tan”, in Chicago Tribune, 157th year, number 232, section 8, page 7, column 3

    After DeGeneres displayed a picture of her overweight cat, “suddenly people sent in pictures of their fat cats,” she said. (She continues on in her meandering, charmingly Ellenesque fashion: “Some of them we don’t even show because I feel like, ‘Oh, my God, this animal’s going to blow up in a second.’ Now I’m realizing my animal’s not fat at all.”)

    2004 May 23, Lynn Elber, “Ellen DeGeneres Savors Her Rebound, Emmys”, in The Signal, page B6

    Those New Orleans women knew how to pop that pussy, and oh, my God—Slugger was on swole—thinking about that project chick sucking my dick on Tchoupitoulas.

    2010 August, Mary B. Morrison, “Darius”, in Darius Jones, New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing, →ISBN; mass market edition, New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing, February 2013, →ISBN, page 193

    You look divoon, just divoon, Honey. There's a new one over there. She's assisting Miss Berk.” Dixie glanced at his wristwatch and squeaked “Oh, my God! Half hour to curtain. Oh, I just love show business. I'll return. Ta ta. Gotta pee.”

    2012, Dale Bridges, Dreams Some Assembly Required ... the Beginning, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 129
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