Meanings

  1. colloquialAn emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with; nonsense!, come on!, come now!

  2. colloquialused as intensifier

    Hunderte, ach was - Tausende Menschen strömten auf den Festplatz.Hundreds – no, make that thousands – of people flocked to the fairground.

  3. colloquiala response to the obvious; oh really!, you don't say!