egad! excl.
used in mild oaths as a euph. for God! (cf. edad! excl.).
Works (1999) 52: Madam, I Gad, / Your Luck att Cards last Night was very bad. | ‘Tunbridge Wells’ in||
‘The West-Countryman’s Song on a Wedding’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) III 57: E’gad not I, let Master fret it. | ||
Old Bachelor i: But, egad, I durst not stay to give him thanks. | ||
Woman’s Wit I i: Igad I had as good show myself. | ||
Sir Harry Wildair IV ii: Egad I should think so too. | ||
Careless Husband II ii: Ha! ha! I’gad, my Lord you deserve to be ill us’d. | ||
Wonder! II i: ’Egad, methinks I have a very pretty hand, and very white, and the shape! | ||
Non-Juror I i: I-gad, this love-sick Monkey had stole it for a private Play-thing. | ||
Refusal 64: Ha! ha! I-gad this is a pleasant Question indeed. | ||
Boarding-School 39: But Ivads! my Heart goes a-pit-a-pat about it. | ||
Polite Conversation 15: I’gad I don’t know whence it comes. | ||
Roderick Random (1979) 17: Egad, I’ll play him the salt-water trick. | ||
Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 31: Egad I’ve a mind to set up some trade. | ||
Life of Richard Nash in Coll. Works (1966) III 357: Follow your prescription, cried Nash, No—Egad, if I had, I should have broke my neck. | ||
Disappointment I i: Egad! you might have said Noah’s-ark [...] for it looks old enough. | ||
Rivals (1776) III i: I’ll never forgive you if you don’t come back, stark mad with rapture and impatience – if you don’t, egad, I’ll marry the girl myself! | ||
Works (1794) I 435: So there is, egad! | ‘Ode Upon Ode’||
Irishman in London II i: Oh, charming! you make me young again—Egad I begin to think—oh dear. | ||
‘Sung in Two to One’ Songster’s Companion 64: Adzooks, old Crusty! why so rusty, Stupid, queer, and mumpy? Egad, if you don’t mend your manners, Somebody will lump you. | ||
Poor Gentleman III i: Egad so you did! | ||
Last Act in New British Theatre I iii: Egad, I think so. | ||
Bucktails (1847) III ii: Egad, admiral, this beats the Labors of Hercules put together. | ||
Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry I ii: Egad! if it didn’t savour of conceit, I should consider myself a handsome fellow. | ||
Tales of A Traveller (1850) 22: Egad, you have not given any thing a chance to happen. | ||
‘I’m One of the New Police’ in James Catnach (1878) 206: I’m one of the New Police — egad. | ||
in Bk of Sports 183: ‘Egad, you’re just right,’ says the breeches. | ||
‘The Lady’s Front’ Knowing Chaunter 6: Why, Jenny, by Jingo, betwixt your two thighs, / Egad I have found your long lost hairy front! | ||
Yellowplush Papers in Works III (1898) 373: Violet won’t know me; and, egad! I’ll run off with her. | ||
Handy Andy 15: Egad, maybe they’ll hang him for this! | ||
Mysteries of London II (2nd series 34: ‘Egad!’ said he, laughing. | ||
Southern Literary Messenger Apr. 218: Egad, if I was starving, I’d steal a calf. | ||
Trail of the Serpent 334: Egad, Peters, I think you’d make evidence, if there wasn’t any. | ||
Term of His Natural Life (1897) 23: Ask me! Egad I wish you would, you black-eyed minx! | ||
Mohawks III 148: Egad, I shall have to commit bigamy if she doesn’t. | ||
M.S. Bradford Special 53: Egad! it will only cost me a bottle of wine. | ||
Sporting Times 12 May 1/5: ‘Two months, egad,’ laughed the commander, ‘why I haven’t seen mine for nearly twelve!’. | ||
Gem 23 Jan. 27: ‘Egad!’ muttered Lord Gethlin. | ||
Marvel 5 Feb. 4: ‘Eh? Egad!’ cried the marquis. | ||
A Thousand and One Afternoons [ebook] The curtain is up. Egad, what a masterly scene. | ||
(con. 1835–40) Bold Bendigo 20: Egad! Here’s Sam Turner giving a boxing lesson. | ||
Right Ho, Jeeves 8: Egad, Jeeves! Fancy that. | ||
Aus. Vulgarisms [t/s] 6: God: gad, egad, cor, gawd, gosh, golly, gawblimey, gawstruth, good god, good grief, by ghost, goldarn it, for gorsake, for goshsake, my goodness, by gum. | ||
in By Himself (1974 261: Egad, – what a woman. | ||
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 102: ‘Egad!’ I said [...] ‘This is not so good.’. | ||
Complete Molesworth (1985) 154: Ho fie lo egad and away for it is the BELL. | ||
Proud Highway (1997) 370: Ah, yes, ah ... egad, the meaning of it. | letter 6 Apr. in||
Much Obliged, Jeeves 12: Does he, egad! | ||
Rhyme Stew (1990) 36: The brainy men all cried, ‘Egad! / Oh, Majesty, you lucky lad!’. | ||
Guardian Rev. 1 Oct. 16: Worse still, they’d want to start bands. Egad! |