<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up great Scott in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> <P> Great Scott! is an interjection of surprise, amazement, or dismay . As a distinctive but inoffensive exclamation, popular in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, and now considered dated . </P> <P> It originates as a minced oath, historically associated with two specific "Scotts", notably Scottish author Sir Walter Scott and somewhat later in the United States, US general Winfield Scott . </P> <P> It is frequently assumed that Great Scott! is a minced oath of some sort, Scott replacing God . The 2010 edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English labels the expression as "dated" and simply identifies it as an "arbitrary euphemism for Great God!". </P>

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