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!" }}

Interjection

(en interjection)

(archaic) An expression of surprise, shock etc.

* {{quote-book

, year=1922 , author=Jeffery Farnol , title= Peregrine's Progress , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=439 , passage=Begad', Perry, old fellow, all's well at last, eh?" exclaimed Anthony, grasping my hand. "What I mean to say is — will ye look at 'em, ' begad !.}}