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bedad

bedad interjection: by God.

Interjection

  1. (Ireland, dated) by God
    • 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.1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
    • But as for the party, bedad, it's rotten to the core, and won't stand another session.1867, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn

bedad meaning in Tamil

bedad in Tamil

கடவுள் ஆணையாக

Origin of bedad

From by dad, euphemistic form of by God.

Questions about bedad

What does bedad mean?
Bedad means by God.
What is bedad in Tamil?
Bedad in Tamil is கடவுள் ஆணையாக. See Bedad meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bedad?
Bedad is an interjection.

Words near bedad in the dictionary

  1. Beda
  2. bedabble
  3. bedabbled
  4. bedabbles
  5. bedabbling
  6. bedad
  7. bedaff
  8. bedaffled
  9. bedaft
  10. bedag
  11. bedagged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedad (page history and authors); bedad (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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