Wow vs Omg - What's the difference?

wow | omg |

As an interjection wow

is an indication of excitement or surprise.

As a verb wow

is to amaze or awe.

As a noun wow

is an exceptionally surprising or unbelievable fact.

As an initialism OMG is

An exclamation of excitement, surprise, amazement, or shock. (Oh, my God!)

wow
English
(wikipedia wow)
Interjection
(en interjection)
An indication of excitement or surprise.

* 1513 , (Gavin Douglas), Virgil Æneid (translation) vi. Prol. 19 :

Out on thir wanderand spiritis, wow! thow cryis.

An expression of amazement or awe.

Wow! How do they do that?

Used sarcastically to express disapproval of something.

Wow... I can't believe you would do such a thing.

Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* wowzer, wowser * wowsers * wowzah
Verb
(en verb)
(informal) To amaze or awe.

He really wowed the audience.

Noun
(en noun)
(informal) An exceptionally surprising or unbelievable fact.

He did? That's a wow !

A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders.

Anagrams
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omg
English

Alternative forms
* omg *
Initialism
(Initialism) (en-initialism)
(chiefly, Internet, slang)

"OMG, I just won tickets to a concert! Today is the best day ever!"

"...and then he said I was ugly, so I punched him in the face." — "OMG, really?"

"...and then I found out my fish died." "OMG, I'm so sorry to hear that."

(computing)

Usage notes
* Variants include OMFG (for oh my fucking god''), zOMG and ZOMG (emphatic, result of many users accidentally pressing the ''Z'' key while attempting to press the ''Shift'' key before typing "OMG"), and ''OMGZ (emphatic, in the same sense of LOLZ). In different contexts the offensiveness of these phrase variations can vary from blasphemous to mild, due to its invocation of deity.
Synonyms
* See also .
Anagrams
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References
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