cor blimey
Cockney surprise phrase
Cor blimey is a British exclamation of surprise or astonishment, a mild oath roughly equivalent to "good heavens" or "wow": Cor blimey, did you see that catch?
The phrase is particularly associated with working-class London speech and often sounds deliberately folksy or theatrical.
Sometimes shortened to just cor or blimey.
Tame exclamation of surprise
- goodnessMoral excellence
- heavensCelestial expanse overhead
- strewthMild Australian oath
- bloody hellBritish oath of surprise
good grief · oh my · gracious · lordy · jeepers · zounds · egad · my word
Intense sudden wonder
- amazementOverwhelming surprise and wonder
- shockViolent sudden disturbance
- disbeliefRejection of truth claims
- gobsmackedExtremely astonished
flabbergasted · stunned · incredulity · startled · bewilderment · taken aback · caught off guard · thunderstruck
England's capital city
- East EndLondon district beyond the City
- rhyming slangSubstitution using sound-alike phrases
- Bow BellsSt Mary-le-Bow's bells
- chimney sweepOne who cleans hearth vents
Eliza Doolittle · barrow boy · music hall · Dick Van Dyke · apples and pears · working class · costermonger
Belonging to earlier times
- datedOld-fashioned or courted
- vintageQuality from past eras
- quaintAttractively unfamiliar, outdated
- bygoneOf earlier times
Edwardian · Victorian · music hall · period drama · Dickensian · antiquated · retro · nostalgic
gosh
Tame exclamation of surprise
bloody hell · good grief · oh my · gracious · lordy · jeepers · zounds · egad · my word · well I never
astonishment
Intense sudden wonder
- amazementOverwhelming surprise and wonder
- shockViolent sudden disturbance
- disbeliefRejection of truth claims
gobsmacked · flabbergasted · stunned · incredulity · startled · bewilderment · taken aback · caught off guard · thunderstruck · dumbfounded
London
England's capital city
- East EndLondon district beyond the City
- rhyming slangSubstitution using sound-alike phrases
- Bow BellsSt Mary-le-Bow's bells
chimney sweep · Eliza Doolittle · barrow boy · music hall · Dick Van Dyke · apples and pears · working class · costermonger
old-fashioned
Belonging to earlier times
bygone · Edwardian · Victorian · music hall · period drama · Dickensian · antiquated · retro · nostalgic · yesteryear
- archaic exclamationsalack, alas, egad, egads, fie
- British Exclamationsbloody hell, strewth, by Jove, well I never, upon my word
- British slangblag, bloke, bodge, blagger, bobby
- London slanginnit, bruv, fam, roadman, bare
- minced oathsdarn, heck, gosh, shoot, dang
- old exclamationszounds, gadzooks, egad, egads, forsooth
cor blimeygood gracious
Gentle interjection of astonishment
my word · I say · good heavens · dear me · goodness gracious