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Bedaw vs Bedad - What's the difference?

bedaw | bedad |

As a verb bedaw

is to awake.

As an interjection bedad is

(dated|chiefly|irish) by god.

bedaw

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To awake.
  • *1980 , John Gower, Confessio Amantis, or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins :
    • That on hald and that other draweth, Ther is no day which hem bedaweth , […]

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    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!" }}