Definitions for GOSH
gɒʃgosh

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1. goshinterjection

   A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm as to be put in place of God, particularly in fear of saying the Lord's name in vain.

2. Etymology: Euphemism (or minced oath) for god. First seen in 1757 as by gosh, probably from by gosse in Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1553)

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1. gosh

   Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital is the largest centre for child heart surgery in the UK and one of the largest centres for heart transplantation in the world. In 1962 they developed the first heart and lung bypass machine for children. With children's book author Roald Dahl, they developed an improved shunt valve for children with hydrocephalus, and non-invasive (percutaneous) heart valve replacements. They did the first UK clinical trials of the rubella vaccine, and the first bone marrow transplant and gene therapy for severe combined immunodeficiency.It is closely associated with University College London (UCL) and in partnership with the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, which is adjacent to it, is the largest centre for research and postgraduate teaching in children's health in Europe.In 1929, J. M. Barrie donated the copyright to Peter Pan to the hospital.

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2. GOSH

   What does GOSH stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the GOSH acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GOSH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gosh is ranked #63873 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Gosh surname appeared 312 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Gosh.
   
   84.2% or 263 total occurrences were White.
   8.3% or 26 total occurrences were Asian.
   3.5% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.9% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'GOSH' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2432

Anagrams for GOSH »

1. GSOH

2. gsoh

3. hogs

4. shog

How to pronounce GOSH?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say GOSH in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of GOSH in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of GOSH in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of GOSH in a Sentence

1. Hunter Martin/Getty:

   All of this woke world that we are living in right now is not working, i feel sorry for the other athletes that are out there, especially at Penn or anybody she’s competing against because in the woke world you have to say,‘Oh, my gosh, this is great 'and on and on and on. No, it’s not. We need to protect women’s sports and the NCAA needs to make the right decision tomorrow, and I think that is probably to stop this right now. Rethink it.

2. Andrew Phelps:

   They've really chosen to pull out some of the tools that we ordinarily would have as emergency protective measures in our toolbox, it's a really uncomfortable position for states to be in to have to weigh' Gosh, you know, with our budgets, where do we spend the finite amount of state dollars that we have ?'.

3. Radha Muthiah:

   If that family of four gets that extra $ 100, they can probably go out and purchase, gosh, 50, 60 meals with that.

4. Pamela Anderson:

   Oh gosh, wouldn’t that be ridiculous? oh boy, I don’t think so. But I’ve said that 10 times ago!

5. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz:

   Was Secretary Clinton awake or asleep when four Americans were being murdered? We don't know to this day, we do know Hillary told her daughter Chelsea, 'Well gosh, I knew it was a terrorist attack,' while we were out telling the American people it wasn't. You know, I'll tell you, in my house, if my daughter Catherine, the 5-year-old, says something she knows to be false, she gets a spanking.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gosh
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosh
3. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html