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32-444: " Great Scott! " is an interjection of surprise, amazement, or dismay. It is a distinctive exclamation, popular in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century, and now considered dated. It originated as a minced oath , historically associated with two specific "Scotts": Scottish author Sir Walter Scott and, later, US general Winfield Scott . It is a catchphrase of the fictional scientist Emmett "Doc" Brown from

64-435: A United States federal judge threatened a lawyer with contempt of court for using the word "darn". Zounds may sound amusing and archaic to the modern ear, yet as late as 1984 the columnist James J. Kilpatrick recalled that "some years ago", after using it in print, he had received complaints that it was blasphemous because of its origin as "God's wounds". (He had written an article entitled "Zounds! Is Reagan Mad?" in

96-747: A 1998 science fiction novel by Wil McCarthy Bloom (2003 film) , award-winning Irish film Bloom (2021 film) , a 2021 Tamil short film Bloom (TV series) , a 2019 Australian TV series Bloom ( Winx Club ) , the main character of the Winx Club animated series Bloom County , American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed The Brothers Bloom , a 2009 movie Bloom.fm , a former music application and streaming service Bloom (music venue) , an alternative music club in Mezzago, Italy Bloom (mod) , 2019 game mod created by Bloom Team Music [ edit ] Artists [ edit ] Bloom, one of

128-561: A US supermarket chain operated by Food Lion LLC Bloom Brothers Department Stores , a defunct chain of department stores in Pennsylvania and Maryland, US Bloom Festival , Ireland's largest gardening show Bloom's restaurant , England's longest-standing kosher restaurant Club Blooming , a football (soccer) club and academy from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia Bloom (company) an American independent film entertainment company Other uses [ edit ] Bloom's taxonomy ,

160-441: A blank for such a blank blank. I'm blank, if he doesn't look as if he'd swallowed a blank codfish." By the 1880s, it had given rise to the derived forms blanked and blankety , which combined gave the name of the long-running British TV quiz show Blankety Blank . In the same way, bleep arose from the use of a tone to mask profanities on radio. The Cretan king Rhadamanthus is said to have forbidden his subjects to swear by

192-422: A chalky white efflorescence on old oil paintings Bloom, pigment migration from wetter to drier surfaces of a watercolor painting Other science and technology [ edit ] Bloom (bloomery) (sponge iron), a porous mass of iron and slag produced in a bloomery Bloom (casting) , a semi-finished metal casting Bloom (sulfur) , the migration of sulfur to the exterior of a rubber Bloom (test) ,

224-478: A classification of learning objectives "Blooming", a less offensive version of the expletive attributive bloody See also [ edit ] Blum (disambiguation) Blume (disambiguation) Bloomberg (disambiguation) Bloomfield (disambiguation) Blumenthal (disambiguation) Bloomer (disambiguation) In Bloom (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

256-526: A ghost town Bloom, Kansas , an unincorporated community Bloom, Wisconsin , a town Bloom City, Wisconsin , an unincorporated community Blooming, Oregon , an unincorporated community Bloom Creek (disambiguation) Bloom's Lake , a lake in Minnesota Bloom Township (disambiguation) Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Bloom (musical) , a 2023 Australian musical by Tom Gleisner and Katie Weston Bloom (novel) ,

288-419: A more acceptable expression. In rhyming slang , rhyming euphemisms are often truncated so that the rhyme is eliminated; prick became Hampton Wick and then simply Hampton . Another well-known example is " cunt " rhyming with " Berkeley Hunt ", which was subsequently abbreviated to "berk". Alliteration can be combined with metrical equivalence, as in the pseudo-blasphemous " Judas Priest ", substituted for

320-733: A similar mincing of profanity in The Lord of the Rings , stating in Appendix F of the novel: "But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it. I do not suppose that any will wish for a closer rendering, though models are easy to find." blooming (Redirected from Blooming ) [REDACTED] Look up Bloom , bloom , blooming , or blooms in Wiktionary,

352-642: A sinking boat the Walter Scott . John William De Forest , in Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (1867) reports the exclamation as referring to Winfield Scott , general‑in‑chief of the U.S. Army from 1841 to 1861: I follow General Scott. No Virginian need be ashamed to follow old Fuss and Feathers. We used to swear by him in the army. Great Scott! the fellows said. The general, known to his troops as Old Fuss and Feathers, weighed 300 pounds (21 stone or 136 kg) in his later years and

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384-564: A test to measure the strength of a gel or gelatin Blooming (CCD) , an effect that happens when a pixel in a CCD image sensor is overloaded Blooming (directed-energy weapon) , an effect of laser beams and particle beams in the air Chocolate bloom , the appearance of white coating on chocolate Thermal blooming , an atmospheric effect on high-energy laser beams People [ edit ] Bloom (surname) Places [ edit ] United States [ edit ] Bloom, Colorado ,

416-484: Is informally known as Great Scott . Minced oath Many languages have such expressions. In the English language, nearly all profanities have minced variants. Common methods of forming a minced oath are rhyme and alliteration . Thus the word bloody can become blooming , or ruddy . Alliterative minced oaths such as darn for damn allow a speaker to begin to say the prohibited word and then change to

448-645: The Back to the Future franchise. It is frequently assumed that Great Scott! is a minced oath of some sort, Scott replacing God . The 2010 edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English labels the expression as "dated" and simply identifies it as an "arbitrary euphemism for 'Great God!'". Alternatively, it has been suggested that it may be a corruption of the South German and Austrian greeting Grüß Gott , although

480-600: The Spartanburg Herald for 12 June 1973, and also used "zounds" in June 1970.) It is common to find minced oaths in literature and media. Writers sometimes face the problem of portraying characters who swear and often include minced oaths instead of profanity in their writing so that they will not offend audiences or incur censorship . One example is The Naked and the Dead , where publishers required author Norman Mailer to use

512-532: The Buried and Me from The Parallax II: Future Sequence , 2012 "Bloom", by Caligula's Horse from Bloom , 2015 "Bloom (Return to Dust)", by Code Orange from Love Is Love/Return to Dust , 2012 "Bloom", by Gigolo Aunts from Full-On Bloom , 1991 "Bloom", by Of Mice & Men from Echo , 2021 "Bloom", by Poppy from Flux , 2021 "Bloom", by Radiohead from The King of Limbs , 2011 " (ocean) bloom ", Radiohead and Hans Zimmer's 2017 reworking of

544-599: The Hebrew. The use of minced oaths in English dates back at least to the 14th century, when "gog" and "kokk", both euphemisms for God, were in use. Other early minced oaths include "Gis" or "Jis" for Jesus (1528). Late Elizabethan drama contains a profusion of minced oaths, probably due to Puritan opposition to swearing. Seven new minced oaths are first recorded between 1598 and 1602, including 'sblood for "By God's blood" from Shakespeare , 'slight for "God's light" from Ben Jonson , and 'snails for "God's nails" from

576-530: The blasphemous use of "Jesus Christ". Minced oaths can also be formed by shortening: e.g., b for bloody or f for fuck . Sometimes words borrowed from other languages become minced oaths; for example, poppycock comes from the Dutch pappe kak , meaning 'soft dung'. The minced oath blank is an ironic reference to the dashes that are sometimes used to replace profanities in print. It goes back at least to 1854, when Cuthbert Bede wrote "I wouldn't give

608-476: The expressions from which they derive, some audiences may still find them offensive. One writer in 1550 considered "idle oaths" like "by cocke" (by God), "by the cross of the mouse foot", and "by Saint Chicken" to be "most abominable blasphemy". The minced oaths "'sblood" and "zounds" were omitted from the Folio edition of Shakespeare 's play Othello , probably as a result of Puritan -influenced censorship. In 1941,

640-447: The free dictionary. Bloom or blooming may refer to: Science and technology [ edit ] Biology [ edit ] Bloom, one or more flowers on a flowering plant Algal bloom , a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in an aquatic system Jellyfish bloom , a collective noun for a large group of jellyfish Epicuticular wax bloom, a whitish haze due to small crystals of wax, occurring on

672-428: The gods, suggesting that they instead swear by the ram, the goose or the plane tree . Socrates favored the "Rhadamanthine" oath "by the dog", with "the dog" often interpreted as referring to the bright "Dog Star", i.e. , Sirius . Aristophanes mentions that people used to swear by birds instead of by the gods, adding that the soothsayer Lampon still swears by the goose "whenever he's going to cheat you". Since no god

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704-603: The historian John Hayward. Swearing on stage was officially banned by the Act to Restrain Abuses of Players in 1606, and a general ban on swearing followed in 1623. Other examples from the 1650s included 'slid for "By God's eyelid" (1598), 'sfoot for "By God's foot" (1602), and gadzooks for "By God's hooks" (referring to the nails on Christ's cross ). In the late 17th century, egad meant oh God , and ods bodikins for "By God's bodkins [i.e. nail ]s" in 1709. In some cases

736-1073: The many stage names of Dutch singer Bloem de Ligny Bloom 06 , Italian electronic duo Albums [ edit ] Bloom (Billy Pilgrim album) , 1995 Bloom (Audio Adrenaline album) , 1996 Bloom (Tasmin Archer album) , 1996 Bloom (Beach House album) , 2012 Bloom (Caligula's Horse album) , 2015 Bloom (Jeff Coffin album) , 2005 Bloom (Gabriel & Dresden album) , 2004 Bloom (Eric Johnson album) , 2005 Bloom (Lights & Motion album) , 2018 Bloom (Machine Gun Kelly album) , 2017 Bloom (The McDades album) , 2006 Bloom (Lou Rhodes album) , 2007 Bloom (RÜFÜS album) , 2016 Bloom (Troye Sivan album) , 2018 Bloom (G.NA EP) , 2012 Bloom (Of Mice & Men EP) , 2021 Bloom (Red Velvet album) , 2022 Blooming (album) , album by Ami Suzuki, 2010 Songs [ edit ] "Bloom" (The Paper Kites song) , 2010 "Bloom" (Gain song) , 2012 "Bloom" (Troye Sivan song) , 2018 "Bloom", by Between

768-510: The meaning of the two expressions is totally different. An early reference to Sir Walter Scott as the "great Scott" is found in the poem "The Wars of Bathurst 1830" published in The Sydney Monitor on 27 October 1830, still during Scott's lifetime; the pertinent line reading "Unlike great Scott, who fell at Waterloo", in reference to Scott's poorly-received The Field of Waterloo . An explicit connection of Sir Walter Scott's name with

800-497: The minced oath "fug" over his objections. Somerset Maugham referred to this problem in his novel The Moon and Sixpence (1919), in which the narrator explained that "Strickland, according to Captain Nichols, did not use exactly the words I have given, but since this book is meant for family reading, I thought it better—at the expense of truth—to put into his mouth language familiar to the domestic circle". J. R. R. Tolkien pretends

832-509: The original meanings of these minced oaths were forgotten; the oath 'struth ( By God's truth ) came to be spelled strewth . The oath Zounds and related Wounds changed pronunciation in the Great Vowel Shift , but the normal word wound did not (at least not in RP), so that they no longer sound like their original meaning of "By God's wounds". Although minced oaths are not as strong as

864-450: The song that was recorded for television series Blue Planet II "Bloom", by Scale the Summit from Carving Desert Canyons , 2009 "Bloom", by Turnover from Magnolia , 2013 "Bloom", by Twice from With You-th , 2024 "Bloom", by The Velvet Teen from Cum Laude! , 2006 "Blooming", by Band-Maid from Conqueror , 2019 Organisations [ edit ] Bloom (store) ,

896-646: The surface of many fruits Bloom syndrome , an autosomal recessive human genetic disorder that predisposes the patient to a wide variety of cancer Computing [ edit ] Bloom filter , a probabilistic method to find a subset of a given set Bloom (shader effect) , a graphics effect used in modern 3D computer games Bloom (software) , a generative music application for the iPhone and iPod Touch BLOOM (language model) , an open-source large language model Art conservation [ edit ] Wax bloom, an efflorescence of wax or stearic acid affecting oil pastels Saponification in art conservation ,

928-621: The then familiar exclamation is found in a poem published 15 August 1871, on the centenary anniversary of Scott's birth: Whose wild free charms, he chanted forth Great Scott! When shall we see thy like again? Great Scott! Mark Twain uses the phrase in some of his writing. The main character in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) repeatedly utters "great Scott" as an oath. Twain's disdain for Scott may be evident in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), where he names

960-508: The tune of " John Brown's Body ". In the July 1871 issue of The Galaxy , in the story "Overland", the expression is again used by author by J. W. DeForest: "Great—Scott!" he gasped in his stupefaction, using the name of the then commander-in-chief for an oath, as officers sometimes did in those days. A large basalt rock collected by astronaut David Scott on the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971

992-520: Was called upon, Lampon may have considered this oath safe to break. Michael V. Fox says there are minced oaths in the Bible: the Hebrew words ṣᵉba’ot 'gazelles' and ’aylot haśśadeh 'wild does' ( Sg 2:7 ) are circumlocutions for titles of God, the first for either (’elohey) ṣᵉba’ot '(God of) Hosts' or (YHWH) ṣᵉba’ot '(Yahweh is) Armies' and the second for ’el šadday ' El Shaddai '. The New English Translation footnotes dispute this interpretation of

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1024-560: Was too fat to ride a horse. A May 1861 edition of The New York Times included the sentence: These gathering hosts of loyal freemen, under the command of the great SCOTT. The phrase appears in a 3 May 1864 diary entry by Private Robert Knox Sneden (later published as Eye of the Storm: a Civil War Odyssey ): "Great Scott," who would have thought that this would be the destiny of the Union Volunteer in 1861–2 while marching down Broadway to

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