God whacked?

[Jane P Parker]

Thanks for the replys on godwhacked/gobsmacked.  I was listening to a radio
show and could easily have misheard.  I kinda liked godwhacked though.

jane P Parker

Lynne Murphy wrote:

> --On Thursday, January 18, 2001 9:43 am -0500 Jane P Parker
> <jpparker at ISERV.NET> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone heard the phrase "god whacked" before?  As in Madeline
> > Albright was god whacked when she found out about her jewish reletives.
> > I heard it used on the Todd Munt show npr by and editor for the
> > atlantic.
>
> Are you sure it wasn't 'gobsmacked'?  If not, I'd guess this is an American
> reanalysis of 'gobsmacked'.  The only 'god whacked' things I can find on
> the web are actually about God whacking somebody, or one in a sort of poem
> that refers to 'your god-whacked beliefs', which I take again to be actual
> reference to God.
>
> "Gobsmacked", as I think has been discussed here before, is a British
> expression meaning something like 'flattened by surprise'.  It's creeping
> into American English more and more.
>
> > I am not an academic person.  Is this group only for academic
> > inquiries?  The faq  did not address this.
>
> No, it's all kinds of people/inquiries.
>
> Lynne
>
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