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Definition of Begorrah
1. begorra [interj] - See also: begorra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Begorrah
Literary usage of Begorrah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Exhibition and Parlor Dramas: Containing the Following Plays: Odds with the by Thomas Stewart Denison (1879)
"begorrah, they'll not be expectin' to find us all ready for entertainin' company.
It was a bit of a surprise party they were plannin', the rascals. ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
""Then, begorrah, we'll wear him down. Two or three times more and he won't have
a breath left in his miserable body. Throw on the brakes again. ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"It was a sore day when I left Limerick, and when I get back, begorrah, I '11 go
no more a visiting the gentry." Business done. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"Don't you think your brother could lend me a hand 1" Charles Doot stopped as he
slapped his thigh, and then exclaimed, " begorrah ! if I could be sent ..."
5. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue by Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomass William Hazen Rolleston (1900)
"Yet, begorrah ! 'twould be the quare weather entirely, as some of us said, That 'ud
put Misther Denis off aught that he'd fairly tuk into his head. ..."
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