"bad cess" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Occurs in print at least as early as 1831, when Samuel Lover used the expression as one already long-established. He unambiguously stated the derivation of cess in the malediction bad cess to be an abbreviation of success. OED speculated that it either was from success or from assessment meaning a military or governmental exaction.",
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          "ref": "1831, Samuel Lover, Legends and Stories of Ireland:",
          "text": "...and so says the king to himself, \"the divil receave the dhrop of that wine they shall get,\" says he, \"... bad cess to the dhrop,\" says he, \"my big-bellied bishop, to nourish your jolly red nose...\"",
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        {
          "ref": "1834, Samuel Lover, Legends and Stories of Ireland:",
          "text": "Bad cess to me, but it's too provokin', so it is; — and why couldn't you tell me so at wanst?",
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        {
          "ref": "1836, Philip Dixon Hardy, Legends, Tales, and Stories of Ireland:",
          "text": "Bad cess to the villains, but it's themselves that put me into the hobble, the thievin' rogues of the world.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Michael Farrell, Thy Tears Might Cease, Hutchinson:",
          "text": "Seen it with the ould Canal Company, bad cess to them, and all. People are decent enough in ones and twos, and maybe even threes, but they're worse than a lot of bad-mannered dogs when they band together into a crowd.",
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        "Bad luck, failure, or evil befalling."
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        "(British, Ireland) Bad luck, failure, or evil befalling."
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  "word": "bad cess"
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          "ref": "1831, Samuel Lover, Legends and Stories of Ireland:",
          "text": "...and so says the king to himself, \"the divil receave the dhrop of that wine they shall get,\" says he, \"... bad cess to the dhrop,\" says he, \"my big-bellied bishop, to nourish your jolly red nose...\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1834, Samuel Lover, Legends and Stories of Ireland:",
          "text": "Bad cess to me, but it's too provokin', so it is; — and why couldn't you tell me so at wanst?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1836, Philip Dixon Hardy, Legends, Tales, and Stories of Ireland:",
          "text": "Bad cess to the villains, but it's themselves that put me into the hobble, the thievin' rogues of the world.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Michael Farrell, Thy Tears Might Cease, Hutchinson:",
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