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Etymology

Possibly a minced version of the oath "(Oh) God!" (pronounced by Londoners to sound more like "gawd"). Possibly inspired by the famous American newspaperman James Gordon Bennett, Jr., a New York newspaper proprietor and playboy during the late nineteenth and early twentiethth centuries who became widely known for his extravagant lifestyle and shocking behaviour.

Interjection

Gordon Bennett

  1. (British) expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, frustration.

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