bobbery-bob

interjection

Oh dear! Alas! Good lord!

OriginHindi बाप रे बाप →
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Meanings

interjection
  1. obsoleteOh dear! Alas! Good lord!

    ‘Would not your Royal Highness like to come into the next room and see the dancers?’ said the Major in great perplexity, forgetting all about the inflected verbs. / ‘No, Bobbery Bob! I’ll drink some more sherbet, old man’.

    1868, Out of the Meshes, volume II, page 273

Origin

  1. Hindiबाप रे बाप“Father oh father!”
  2. Englishbobbery-bob

An alteration of Hindi बाप रे बाप (bāp re bāp, “Father oh father!”).

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Chicago

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