"begob" meaning in All languages combined

See begob on Wiktionary

Interjection [English]

Head templates: {{en-interj}} begob
  1. (dated, dialectal, Ireland) by God Tags: Ireland, dated, dialectal Categories (topical): English minced oaths
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "begob",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English minced oaths",
          "parents": [
            "Minced oaths",
            "Euphemisms",
            "Figures of speech",
            "Rhetoric",
            "Language",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894, Arthur Morrison, Martin Hewitt, Investigator:",
          "text": "I spake to the polis, an' they laff at me, begob.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:",
          "text": "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.'\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops\nSo 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 O, as true as I'm telling you"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "by God"
      ],
      "id": "en-begob-en-intj-uwG1IBzS",
      "links": [
        [
          "by God",
          "by God"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, dialectal, Ireland) by God"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "dated",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "begob"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "begob",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English dated terms",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English interjections",
        "English lemmas",
        "English minced oaths",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894, Arthur Morrison, Martin Hewitt, Investigator:",
          "text": "I spake to the polis, an' they laff at me, begob.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:",
          "text": "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.'\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops\nSo 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 O, as true as I'm telling you"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "by God"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "by God",
          "by God"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, dialectal, Ireland) by God"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "dated",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "begob"
}

Download raw JSONL data for begob meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (bb46d54 and 0c3c9f6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.