| 释义 |
bejab(b)ers, int.|bɪˈdʒeɪbəz, -ˈæ-|
Also be (by) jappers, etc.
[Corruption of by Jesus.]
A dial. (esp. Irish) expletive.
In quot. 1962 used as a nonce-verb.
1821D. Haggart Life 118 By jappers, we were tould he was the boy. 1866Mayne Reid Headless Horseman v. 30 ‘Be japers!’ he exclaimed. 1890H. Nisbet Bail Up! xxxviii. 265 A head wind, be jabbers! 1892― Bush-ranger's Sweetheart xx. 152 Arrah, be jabbers! but that's the foinest song I have listened to since I left Ould Oirland. 1895J. Barlow Strangers at Lisconnel iv. 58 Bejabers, you've got it now. 1939Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 668/1 A Londoner who speaks nothing but cockney feels it [sc. the sentence] ought to be rounded off with ‘bejabers’. 1962Listener 9 Aug. 214/2 To live as an Irishman in England is to be forced to play a part. To begorra, to bejaper, and to be always after having a drink. |