bejabbersint.
/bɪˈdʒeɪbəz//bɪˈdʒabəz/ A dialect (esp. Irish) expletive. In quot. 1962 used as a nonce-verb.
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1821 Life D. Haggart 118 By jappers, we were tould he was the boy.
1866 M. Reid Headless Horseman v. 30 ‘Be japers!’ he exclaimed.
1890 H. Nisbet Bail Up! xxxviii. 265 A head wind, be jabbers!
1892 H. Nisbet Bushranger's Sweetheart xx. 152 Arrah, be jabbers! but that's the foinest song I have listened to since I left Ould Oirland.
1895 J. Barlow Strangers at Lisconnel iv. 58 Bejabers, you've got it now.
1939 Times 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’.
1962 Listener 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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