What's "Cor" mean

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> > Sharon:
> > it means "Wow", something that is really good and unexpected. I'm not sure of the 
> derivation but I had always thought it was one of those expressions that didn't really 
start out 
> as a word but is written as "Cor". Similar to "Ugh" I suppose.  However if anyone DOES 
know 
> its derivation (Carol??) I love to know as well.
> > 
> 
> Pippin:
> It's supposed to be a corruption of "Gore blimey" which is in turn a corruption 
> of "God blind me." It's an expression of surprise or wonder. I think it's still in use. 
> 
> Pippin
> cribbing from http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml

Geoff:
I'm coming in late because interesting threads always start when I'm 
asleep- it's that dratted time difference again!!!

Expanding on your answer, 'cor' is indeed usually associated with 
'cor blimey' and is very much a Cockney expression. Having moved 
to London at the tender age of nine and remained there until about 
thirteen years ago, I experienced a lot of Cockney slang and idiomatic 
usage.

You rarely hear 'gore blimey' although 'blimey' on its own is fairly 
common and 'cor luv a duck', mentioned in your link, is very much 
confined to elderly native Londoners.