help ma boab in Scots

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  "etymology_text": "Possibly a minced oath.",
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      "expansion": "help ma boab",
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  "lang": "Scots",
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      "glosses": [
        "expressing frustration, amazement, etc.; ≈ crikey, goodness gracious me"
      ],
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        [
          "goodness gracious me",
          "goodness gracious me"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "help ma boab"
}

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{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly a minced oath.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "help ma boab",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scots",
  "lang_code": "sco",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Scots entries with incorrect language header",
        "Scots lemmas",
        "Scots multiword terms",
        "Scots phrases"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "expressing frustration, amazement, etc.; ≈ crikey, goodness gracious me"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "crikey",
          "crikey"
        ],
        [
          "goodness gracious me",
          "goodness gracious me"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "help ma boab"
}

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"help ma boab" meaning in Scots

Phrase