Who said egads

Whatever the origin of the term, it is a mild oath much in the same vein as "Darn! The townsfolk drag Harold in handcuffs into the meeting hall where other residents are wanting to tar-and-feather him. Marian jumps up on the platform and points out how Harold has changed River City since his arrival, changed it from a town filled with Iowa stubbornness to a proud town filled with people who would go out of their way to help others. Mayor Shinn Paul Ford , eager to get on with the tar-and-feathering, orders those who don't want to tar-and-feather Harold to stand up.

At first, no one stands up until Marian's mother Pert Kelton does. She is followed by Zaneeta Shinn Susan Luckey , then the barbershop quartet, until everyone in the room is standing, including the mayor's wife Eulalie Hermione Gingold. But he first saw life as a stop-motion animation creation who existed in a world populated with animal friends who could understand him—despite his vocabulary consisting of muffled grunts that mostly sounded like his own name.

It comes as no surprise that Arrested Development , once committed to a long-term gag, could really make it sing. Perhaps one of the most fruitful jokes from the series comes in the form of Annyong Bluth.

Which he repeated. That his actual name was Hel-loh, revealed in the same episode, made it all the more delicious. I simply chose not to employ them. There are some oddities, like 8-year-old boys dressed to the nines in suits and girls toting old-lady bags, but their overall style is realistically childlike, recalling Charles M.

Also like Charlie Brown and his friends, the earlier gang of rascals rarely interacts with adults, whereas the group is subject to interacting with Donald Trump, who plays the oil tycoon father of the new rival kid. Egadi Islands. Accessed 14 Nov. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of egad. First Known Use of egad , in the meaning defined above. Put some trousers on! Egad is a morphed form of egads.

Egads used to mean " ye gods " and now is more closely linked to "OMG" or "oh god"; Some people think there is only one god, so egad has evolved to express that idea. At the heart of it is the notion that god is a trickster who screws with us. We use it to say that something severely messed up has just happened.