bedad, int. Irish.
(bɪˈdæd)
[= By dad, or by God (cf. begad).]
An asseveration.
| 1710 Swift Lett. (1768) III. 25 Only because it is Tuesday, a Monday bedad. 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair II. iv. 39 ‘Bedad it's him,’ said Mrs. O'Dowd. 1871 J. Young Mem. C.M. Young 324, Standing where, bedad, I'm standing now. |