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Wiktionary

  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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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  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

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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. Garrett Boyte:

    You look at that, and you think, 'Wow, gosh, you know, what would that do to my kidney or my liver?' the body can't filter that kind of stuff out.

  2. Danny Burch:

    Gosh, it's great to be an American.

  3. Ken Yeager:

    You start to worry, 'Oh my gosh, could that happen to me?', we tend not to think about these things until they hit close to home.

  4. Abigail Spanberger:

    I think where there's been a bit of a disconnect is some legislators and I think some folks in White House are like,' Oh my gosh, this won't solve the problem, so what will solve the problem ?' people are in sort of a frenzied place.

  5. Ted Cruz:

    I will say it is more than a little strange to see Donald relying on as authoritative a liberal, left wing, judicial activist Harvard Law professor who is a huge Hillary supporter, it starts to make you think, gosh, why are Hillary's strongest supporters backing Donald Trump?

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