What's the difference between golly and gosh?

Golly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Golly; so riled is Abrams that he has committed a Hollywood solecism – you never tell anyone not to come.
  • (2) Helena Bonham Carter, one of the stars of the film, was seen to mouth “Oh golly” as the protesters jumped the barrier as she was walking the red carpet.
  • (3) The vote on Europe might not have been binding, but by golly it was important.
  • (4) As a general spirit, I'd accept the term "rock and roll" – but if we're talking about Good Golly Miss Molly then it couldn't possibly be further from us.
  • (5) It looks like the Starship Enterprise and costs an eye-watering £299, but by golly, it juices them brassicas good.
  • (6) When these books were published, 'jeepers' and 'golly gosh' was modern slang.
  • (7) You know, it wasn't, 'Golly, gee, them Commies are bad.'
  • (8) I remember after that thinking, 'Golly, how can I keep raising the game?'"
  • (9) "By golly, I just hate these unamerican [sic] shoes!"
  • (10) The first is this, the sort of companies that I understand don't sit there saying, 'by golly, we've got to be able to get rid of people, so therefore we mustn't invest because the risks are too high.'
  • (11) The New Vic continued the tradition of staging new work, including Chris Martin's 1988 adaptation of Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha and Bob Eaton's musical Good Golly Miss Molly (1989), as well as classic repertory.
  • (12) Ordinarily I'd be elated – I'd been determined to find Hugh the perfect present, and, by golly, I had done it – but instead I felt unhinged, not by the things I had seen so much as by the taxidermist.

Gosh


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Karen I'm an English graduate and I went to work for a tech company, and they thought: "Gosh, we'll teach her to code."
  • (2) To non-artists, there may not seem to be anything original or provocative about love, death, loneliness or cheese, either – yet gosh-darned artists keep finding new ways for humanity to look at them.
  • (3) "I said: 'Well, gosh, can't we find some women that are also qualified?'
  • (4) Gosh, it’s nice at parties when everyone already knows each other.)
  • (5) What you would expect is the whole world wakes up and goes: ‘Oh my gosh, this is a terrible problem, we have to deploy additional people and send money,’” he said.
  • (6) This is just such a pathetically stupid ... gosh, I didn’t mean to be that strong because I actually like Tony Abbott very much.
  • (7) "Oh gosh, totally, because that's another measure of what the customers are doing.
  • (8) … Everything … Gosh I gotta get me one of those."
  • (9) "And I said: "Well, gosh, can't we – can't we find some – some women that are also qualified?"
  • (10) "Gosh, I'm feeling really inflated today, watch out," she says.
  • (11) "It was definitely an 'oh my gosh moment'," Famiglietti said.
  • (12) I think that was badly explained because people thought 'gosh, they're going to put tax up for the low paid'.
  • (13) I look at pictures of that time - because my mum saves stuff - and I think: Oh gosh, I actually gained weight, which is not what people would normally do if they knew they had to appear naked every night."
  • (14) Pure glucosamine synthetase did not exhibit detectable NH3-dependent activity and did not catalyze the reverse reaction, as reported for more impure preparations [Gosh, S., Blumenthal, H. J., Davidson, E., & Roseman, S. (1960) J. Biol.
  • (15) (“Gosh,” murmurs Roy, as he gazes at a menagerie of living puppets and dolls, “you’ve really got nice toys here.”) It’s as children that we perhaps learn to warm to them, for all their chilling potentiality for violence.
  • (16) I thought after [I'd played the character], I'll reveal I'd researched it, and people would say gosh, you've taken this really difficult subject and done something amazing.
  • (17) For an instant, stepping out on to the roof, there was an, "Oh my gosh, we're actually doing this" moment, a split-second of terror, and then we got the momentum.
  • (18) "Oh my gosh," she says, in her rich, dewy Kentucky accent, and holds out a perfectly manicured hand.
  • (19) I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, how is this going to work?’” Newland said.
  • (20) Or is it gosh to think that the World's Highest-Paid Player, a four-time Ballon d'Or recipient, should actually show up and contribute something - anything?

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