bejabbers
Americaninterjection
noun
Etymology
Origin of bejabbers
First recorded in 1815–25; alleged to be euphemistic alteration of by Jesus
Example Sentences
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“It scared the bejabbers out of me,” Bowie wrote in Vanity Fair in 2003.
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2022
On Saturday, the Yankees scared the bejabbers out of their closer, Kenley Jansen, before losing after a controversial ninth-inning call.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2019
She simply whipped the bejabbers out of gravity and seemed to make it all look easy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mico's brother, a bright one who goes to college and accepts all the bejabbers of modern science, grows up to be a dusty wielder of test tubes.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Och, bejabbers, it's a great joke they have agin me whatever," said old Patman, who was shivering much, with cold partly, and partly perhaps with amusement.
From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane
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