le sigh
n.— «Also any other exciting stuff i might of missed in the last week or two’d be appreciated as well (but I can’t read gifs! grumble grumble grumble). Le sigh. (sorry Fifi & Hepzibah!)» —“Tiny Toons references” by Baron M. Usenet: alt.tv.tiny-toon Mar. 9, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A Kentucky listener says her father often prefaced statements with the phrase I tell you what’s the truth. This regionalism appears in the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English (Bookshop|Amazon). A shorter version is I’ll tell you...
In the 15th century, the word respair meant “to have hope again.” Although this word fell out of use, it’s among dozens collected in a new book of soothing vocabulary for troubled times. Plus, baseball slang: If a batter...