begad
Britishinterjection
Etymology
Origin of begad
C18: euphemistic alteration of by God!
Example Sentences
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With all this, there was a running fire of questions, replies, and recognitions, from every one you passed— 'That's it, Captain: push along! begad, you're doing it well!'—
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever
Thank you, Harry; begad that is a famous pudden; but blood an' turnips, what's this for?'
From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Er— Well, then, ’twas a Welsh widow they fought about—name of Gwynne 105 and rich as Crœsus—old enough to be a grandmother of either of ’em, begad!
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
But Dunbar sees it, and so does the British public, begad.
From The Message by H. M. (Henry Matthew) Brock
Yes, yes, begad, of course, you go out with him.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
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