gramercy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəˈmɝ.si/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæm.ɚ.si/
ipa: /ɡɹəˈmɜː.si/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæm.ə.si/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)si
Forms: form: gra'mercy
form: gra-mercy
form: grand mercy
Etymology: From Middle English gramerci, from Old French grant merci (“great thanks”). Still in use in south of France's Provençal language as 'gramerci'.
Senses: examples: text: Gramércy, liegé King, / This is to me a comforting: / I tell you sickerly / For to have land or lede / Or other riches, so God me speed, / It is too much for me.
ref: [late 14th – early 15th century, “Transition English: From the Conquest to Chaucer.—a.d. 1666 to a.d. 1352 [Sir Cleges.]”, in Henry Morley, editor, Shorter English Poems (Cassell’s Library of English Literature), London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], published c. 1870s, →OCLC, page 28, column 2, lines 409–412:
text: "Gramercy! good fellow," cried Prince John, "thou pleasest me—Here, Isaac, lend me a handful of byzants."
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 155:
synonyms: word: beauty
word: cheers
word: chur
word: gracias
word: gramercy
word: h/t
word: hat tip
word: many thanks
word: merci
word: mercy buckets
word: mercy bucket
word: much appreciated
word: much obliged
word: sankyu
word: spank you
word: spank you very much
word: shot
word: shotties
word: shucks
word: tanks
word: thank you
word: thank you so much
word: thank you very much
word: thank you kindly
word: thank'ee
word: thankee
word: thanks
word: thanks a heap
word: thanks a lot
word: thanks a bunch
word: thanks a million
word: thanks a ton
word: thanks heaps
word: thanks very much
word: thanksh
word: todah rabah
word: ta
word: ta everso
word: ta muchly
word: obliged
word: 10q
word: 10x
word: kthx
word: thnk
word: thx
word: tnx
word: ty
word: tyvm
word: tia
word: TIA
word: TQ
word: txs
glosses: Used as an expression of gratitude: thanks; many thanks.
synonyms: word: adzooks
word: ay
word: caramba
word: chihuahua
word: begorra
word: bleeding heck
word: bleeding Nora
word: bless my heart
word: bless my soul
word: bless us
word: blige
word: blimey
word: bloody hell
word: bloody Nora
word: blow me
word: blow me backwards
word: blow me down
word: blow me over
word: blow me pink
word: blow me tight
word: blow me up
word: blow my buttons
word: butter my butt and call me a biscuit
word: by all that is holy
word: by Allah
word: by cracky
word: by George
word: by God
word: by golly
word: by gum
word: by gummy
word: by jingo
word: by Jove
word: by juckies
word: by Jupiter
word: by thunder
word: by the living jingo
word: byrlady
word: Christ
word: Christ alive
word: Christ almighty
word: Christ on a bike
word: Christ on a cracker
word: Christ on a raft
word: cor
word: cor blimey
word: cor lummy
word: cowabunga
word: crikey
word: criminy
word: cripes
word: crivvens
word: chuffing hell
word: dear God
word: dear me
word: dearie me
word: deary me
word: dear Lord
word: diggety
word: eep
word: egad
word: egads
word: ermahgerd
word: fancy that
word: flaming Nora
word: flipping heck
word: flipping Nora
word: fuark
word: fuck me
word: fucking hell
word: fucking Nora
word: gad so
word: Gadsbodikins
word: gadsbud
word: gadzooks
word: gaw
word: gee
word: gee whiz
word: gee willikers
word: geeminy
word: geez
word: geez Louise
word: geshmak
word: get out of town
word: glory be
word: God Almighty
word: God in heaven
word: God's teeth
word: good golly
word: golly
word: golly gee willikers
word: golly gosh
word: good God
word: good gracious
word: good gravy
word: good grief
word: good heavens
word: good Lord
word: goodness
word: goodness gracious
word: goodness gracious me
word: goodness me
word: googly-moogly
word: gorblimey
word: Gordon Bennett
word: gosh
word: gosh all hemlock
word: gracious
word: gramercy
word: great balls of fire
word: great Caesar
word: great Caesar's ghost
word: great googly moogly
word: great Scott
word: gyatt
word: hallo
word: hello
word: heavens
word: heavens above
word: heavens to Betsy
word: heavens to Murgatroyd
word: hell's bells
word: hey
word: heyday
word: hold up
word: holy buckets
word: holy cannoli
word: holy cow
word: holy crap
word: holy crap on a cracker
word: holy cricket
word: holy crickets
word: holy crud
word: holy dignity
word: holy doodle
word: holy fuck
word: holy fuck knuckles
word: holy guacamole
word: holy Hannah
word: holy hell
word: holy kamoley
word: holy kamoly
word: holy macaroni
word: holy mackerel
word: holy magnum
word: holy moley
word: holy moly
word: holy man
word: holy Moses
word: Holy Mother
word: Holy Mother of God
word: holy ravioli
word: holy shit
word: holy stromboli
word: holy smoke
word: holy Toledo
word: hooly dooly
word: hot damn
word: I'll be
word: I'll be a dirty bird!
word: I'll be a monkey's uncle
word: I'll be a son of a bitch
word: I'll be a son of a gun
word: I'll be blowed
word: I'll be bound
word: I'll be buggered
word: I'll be damned
word: I'll be danged
word: I'll be darned
word: I'll be dashed
word: I'll be dipped
word: I'll be dipped in shit
word: I'll be hanged
word: I'll be hornswoggled
word: I'll be jiggered
word: I'll be shot
word: imagine that
word: I'm blowed
word: I say
word: Janey Mack
word: Jaysus
word: Jeebus
word: jeepers
word: jeepers creepers
word: jeez
word: jeez Louise
word: jeezy peeps
word: Jerusalem crickets
word: Jesum Crow
word: Jesus
word: Jesus Christ
word: Jesus fucking Christ
word: Jesus H. Christ
word: Mary and Joseph
word: Jesus Murphy
word: Jiminy Cricket
word: jings
word: jinkies
word: Judas Priest
word: jumping Jehoshaphat
word: jumping Jesus
word: knock me down with a feather
word: knock me over with a feather
word: land sakes
word: lauks
word: lawks
word: lawks a-mercy
word: lawl
word: leapin' lizards
word: Lord
word: Lord be praised
word: Lord love a duck
word: lordy
word: mama mia
word: mamma mia
word: man alive
word: mercy sakes
word: Mother of God
word: my
word: my conscience
word: my giddy aunt
word: my heavens
word: my sainted aunt
word: my sainted uncle
word: my God
word: my goodness
word: my gosh
word: my Lord
word: my my
word: my word
word: no way
word: O gemini
word: ods bodikin
word: odsfish
word: odzookens
word: oh
word: oh em gee
word: ohmigod
word: oh my
word: oh my days
word: oh my God
word: oh my Goddess
word: oh my goodness
word: oh my goodness gracious
word: oh my gosh
word: oh my hell
word: oh my heck
word: oh my fuck
word: oh my life
word: oh my Lord
word: oh my stars
word: oh my word
word: oi
word: OMG
word: omigod
word: omigosh
word: peas and rice
word: please
word: praise the Lord
word: rah
word: ruddy hell
word: ruddy Nora
word: sacré bleu
word: sakes alive
word: 'sblood
word: 'sdeath
word: shart
word: 'sheart
word: sheesh
word: shit fire and save matches
word: shitting Nora
word: shiver my timbers
word: shut my mouth
word: shut the front door
word: slap my ass and call me Judy
word: slap my ass and call me Sally
word: snakes alive
word: sodding hell
word: son of a gun
word: stone me
word: stone the crows
word: strewth
word: strike me pink
word: 'struth
word: suffering Sappho
word: suffering succotash
word: sweet Grandma on stilts
word: sweet Jesus
word: sweet Mary
word: sweet mother of God
word: sweet mother of Jesus
word: waow
word: well
word: I never
word: what
word: what do you know
word: whoa
word: whoah
word: wow
word: wowee
word: wowzers
word: ye gods
word: yikes
word: yikes bikes
word: you don't say
word: yowzah
word: zoiks
word: zoinks
word: ZOMG
word: ZOMFG
word: zooterkins
word: zound
word: zounds
word: zowie
glosses: Used as an exclamation expressing surprise or sudden strong feelings.