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Betekenis

Used to express astonishment or incredulity, as a question or questioning of the situation at hand, without requiring any specific vulgarity as intensifier.

Etimologie

From various expressions such as what the sam hill, what the hey, what the heck, what the hell and what the fuck by aposiopesis.

Sinne

What the flaming .

But he kept quiet , because he had heard what the alchemist said to the monk .