honour bright

interjection

A minor oath of, or appeal to, honour or sincerity.

First used 18th c.
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Meanings

interjection

alternative honor bright

  1. archaiccolloquialA minor oath of, or appeal to, honour or sincerity.First known use 18th c.

    —I didn’t mean to, honour bright. It was only for cod. I’m sorry.

    1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
    1 more example

    The phrase of the lowest of the people is ‘honor-bright,’ and their vulgar praise, ‘his word is as good as his bond’.

    1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits
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