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Bedad vs Bedid - What's the difference?

bedad | bedid |

As an interjection bedad

is by God.

As a verb bedid is

simple past of bedo.

bedad

English

Interjection

(bedad)
  • (dated, chiefly, Irish) by God
  • * {{quote-book, year=1848, author=William Makepeace Thackeray, title=Vanity Fair, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Lady O'Dowd is also so attached to it that, she says, if anything were to happen to Mick, bedad she'd come back and marry some of 'em. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1867, author=Anthony Trollope, title=Phineas Finn, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But as for the party, bedad , it's rotten to the core, and won't stand another session. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1875, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=Sketches New and Old, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Ah, bedad , ye can finish it yourself--it's too expansive for me!" }}

    bedid

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bedo)

    • bedo

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To shut; make or put to.
  • (obsolete) To befoul; defile with ordure.
  • (obsolete) To adorn; ornament; garnish.
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