Cor vs Blimey - What's the difference?
cor | blimey |
(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.}}
(UK, Australia, New Zealand)
* 1945 , , British Mysteries'', in ''The Kenneth Roberts Reader , 2002,
* 2007 , Penny Vincenzi, The Dilemma ,
* 2011 , Duncan Campbell, If It Bleeds ,
As a noun cor
is choir, chorus or cor can be corps.As an interjection blimey is
(uk|australia|new zealand).cor
English
Etymology 1
A worn-down form of God.Interjection
(en interjection)Etymology 2
(etyl)Anagrams
* * * * Cockney English ----blimey
English
Alternative forms
* blimyInterjection
(en interjection)- Blimey ! I didn't see that!
page 191,
- “Blimey'!” he says in his rough, shepherd's voice, “' blimey , but it?s cruel ?ard to be chucked out of one?s digs wivout a blarsted word!”
page 311,
- ‘Blimey ,’ said Barnaby. ‘Come on, Jack, quick as you can.’
- ‘Blimey',’ said Jack. ‘' Blimey blimey blimey .’
unnumbered page,
- ‘Blimey ,’ said Laurie. ‘But how would he know that the Old Bill are going to swallow that? It?s a bit bloody obvious that someone must have planted it on Petrov, isn?t it?’