Brekekekex vs Cor - What's the difference?
brekekekex | cor |
Nonsense word supposedly imitative of frogs.
(British) Expression of surprise.
* Cor blimey!
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter VII
, passage=“I don’t get this,” she said. “How do you mean it’s gone?” “It’s been pinched.” “Things don’t get pinched in country-houses.” “They do if there’s a Wilbert Cream on the premises. He’s a klep-whatever-it-is,” I said, and thrust Jeeves’s letter on her. She perused it with an interested eye and having mastered its contents said, “Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up a gum tree,” adding that you never knew what was going to happen next these days.}}
As interjections the difference between brekekekex and cor
is that brekekekex is {{cx|nonce word|lang=en}} Nonsense word supposedly imitative of frogs while cor is expression of surprise.As a noun cor is
a Hebrew measure of capacity; a core or homer.brekekekex
English
Interjection
(en-intj)- ''Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax,
- ''Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax!
- ''We children of the fountain and the lake
- ''Let us wake
- ''Our full choir-shout, as the flutes are ringing out,
- ''Our symphony of clear-voiced song.
- ''The song we used to love in the Marshland up above,
- ''In praise of Dionysus to produce,
- ''Of Nysaean Dionysus, son of Zeus,
- ''When the revel-tipsy throng, all crapulous and gay,
- ''To our precinct reeled along on the holy Pitcher day,
- Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax.'' -- Chorus of the frogs, from ''The Frogs of Aristophanes