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  • interjection dated, dialectal, Ireland by God

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Examples

  • There's more than phlegm in his aim, for when it hits the shovel it peels out a ring, rrnnnyyyrrnnn,  and begob I heard the same sound when they hit the tower in Samarra and sent the summit trembling.

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  • But begob, it made me want to go back to Nepal, expecially now in Interesting Times.

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  • "D'ye know it's St. Patty's Day, begob," I drooled in a horrible Irish brogue to anyone who would listen.

    Eric Broder: The Consumption of Alcohol on St. Patrick's Day: A Drip Goes Dry after Drunken Humiliation in Local Establishment 2008

  • There once was a vicar in Galway, caught floggin his dolphin in a hallway ... begob I don't recall the rest of it.

    Eric Broder: The Consumption of Alcohol on St. Patrick's Day: A Drip Goes Dry after Drunken Humiliation in Local Establishment 2008

  • My observation is that Catholic profanity seems to be very Catholic, but euphemized "'Sblood", "zounds", "begob", and things I can't remember from Rabelais', Rimbaud's and Canadian French.

    languagehat.com: TRANSLATING CURSES. 2004

  • So anyhow Terry brought the three pints Joe was standing and begob the sight nearly left my eyes when I saw him land out a quid

    Ulysses 2003

  • And begob what was it only that bloody old pantaloon Denis Breen in his bathslippers with two bloody big books tucked under his oxter and the wife hotfoot after him, unfortunate wretched woman, trotting like a poodle.

    Ulysses 2003

  • And, begob, I saw his physog do a peep in and then slidder off again.

    Ulysses 2003

  • And begob he got as far as the door and they holding him and he bawls out of him: —

    Ulysses 2003

  • Where? says Alf. And begob there he was passing the door with his books under his oxter and the wife beside him and Corny Kelleher with his wall eye looking in as they went past, talking to him like a father, trying to sell him a secondhand coffin. —

    Ulysses 2003

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  • Begob, ma'am, says Mrs Cahill, God send you don't make them in the one pot.

    Joyce, Ulysses, 1

    December 29, 2006