holy shit

English

Etymology

From holy and shit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhəʊli ʃɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊli ʃɪt/

• Audio (AU):

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Interjection

holy shit!

1. (idiomatic, vulgar, slang) Expression of terror, awe, surprise, astonishment, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.

   Holy shit, that car just exploded!

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:wow

Translations

expression of surprise or the like

• Azerbaijani: pay blə, içinə pox, pay içini sikim
• Catalan: me cago en Déu!, me cago en Déu, en la creu i en el fuster que la féu!
• Finnish: jukoliste (fi), jumalauta (fi)
• French: bon Dieu de merde, bordel de merde (fr), putain de merde (fr), nom de Dieu (fr)
• German: Ach du Scheiße
• Greek: γαμώτο (el) n (gamóto)
• Hungarian: basszus (hu), a kurva életbe, bassza meg
• Italian: porca puttana f, merda (it) f, sticazzi
• Japanese: やばい (ja) (yabai)
• Javanese: cocoté, cobroté, matané, biangané, trukbyangané, trukbyangané silit
• Korean: jekiral (jekiral)
• Latvian: pie velna, svētais sūds
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• Polish: o kurwa!, ja pierdolę! (pl)
• Portuguese: puta que pariu! (pt), puta merda! (pt)
• Russian: срань госпо́дня (ru) (sranʹ gospódnja), ё моё (ru) (jo mojó), бля́ха-му́ха (ru) (bljáxa-múxa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јеботе, у пичку материну, јебем ти матер

  Roman: jebote, u pičku materinu, jebem ti mater

• Silesian: jasny pjerůn
• Slovak: kurva! f, ty vole!, ty brďo!, ty kokot!, čo ti jebe!
• Spanish: ¡mierda! (es), ¡me cago en la leche!, ¡me cago en Dios! (es), ¡hostia! (es)
• Swedish: herrejävlar! (sv), satan i gatan, helvete (sv)
• Turkish: oha (tr), çüş (tr), yok artık, ha siktir (vulgar)
• Vietnamese: vãi (vi)

Anagrams

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