Surprise vs Omgwtfbbq - What's the difference?
surprise | omgwtfbbq |
Something not expected.
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert’s debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= (attributive) Unexpected.
The feeling that something unexpected has happened.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 (obsolete) A dish covered with a crust of raised pastry, but with no other contents.
To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted.
To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.
To undergo or witness something unexpected.
To cause surprise.
To attack unexpectedly.
To take unawares.
Unexpected.
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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
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* 2007 November 2, “Acidqueen” or “Sorlak” (author), “
surprise
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- They had begun brightly but the opening goal was such a blow to their confidence it almost came as a surprise when Walcott, running through the inside-right channel, beat the offside trap and, checking back on to his left foot, turned a low shot beyond Allan McGregor in the Scotland goal.
Moldova 0-5 England, passage=England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.}}
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
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Synonyms
* unexpected * (feeling) astonishmentDerived terms
* take by surpriseVerb
(surpris)- It surprises me that I owe twice as much as I thought I did.
- He doesn’t know that I’m in the country – I thought I’d turn up at his house and surprise him.
- He doesn’t surprise easily.
Adjective
(-)citation, passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”}} 1000 English basic words ----
omgwtfbbq
English
Interjection
(en interjection)Re: I Seek Sage Advice..or personal opinions...”, in alt.mountain-bike, Usenet ,
- OMGWTFBBQ DOOD UR HELMET IS SO IMPORTANT OBVIOUSLY GO WITH RED FOOL THEN YOU GET LESS SPEEDING TICKETS LOOLOLOLOLOLLL!!!!!
Game Geek’s Goss: Linguistic Creativity In Young Males Within An Online University Forum (94/\/\3 933k’5 9055oneone)”, in Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society , volume 3, number 2, page 83,
- Leet is a highly metatextual language characterised by increasingly complex layers of signification with each subsequent use of the term coined in the discussion and constant reference within the word itself to its previous iterations:
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- 6 ‘OMGWTFBBQ ’
Stories posted October 2007 (1/5 TOS)”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated, Usenet ,
- Summary: OMGWTFBBQ ? I wrote het? Between Spock and Chapel... What is wrong with me today? This is a response to challenge number two in the Evil Plot Bunny Strikes Again thread.