begob

B3E1G2O1B3

interjection

By God.

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Meanings

interjection
  1. IrelanddateddialectalBy God.

    Begob he was what you might call flabbergasted.

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[12]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
    2 more examples

    I spake to the polis, an' they laff at me, begob.

    1894, Arthur Morrison, Martin Hewitt, Investigator

    Two Irishmen, Pat and Mike, were walking along Broadway, and one said to the other, 'Begorrah, the race is not always to the swift,' and the other replied, 'Faith and begob, education is a drawing out, not a putting in.'"

    1934 October 5, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC, page 217
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