begob

begob

1. (dated, dialectal, Ireland) By God.
   • 1894, Arthur Morrison, Martin Hewitt, Investigator‎^[1]:

     I spake to the polis, an' they laff at me, begob.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[12]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Begob he was what you might call flabbergasted.

   • 1934 October 5, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC, page 217:

     Two Irishmen, Pat and Mike, were walking along Broadway, and one said to the other, 'Begorrah, the race is not always to the swift,' and the other replied, 'Faith and begob, education is a drawing out, not a putting in.'"