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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ih-gad, ee-gad |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈgæd, iˈgæd |
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Définition of egad
Origin :- 1670s, I gad, a softened oath, second element God, first uncertain; perhaps it represents exclamation ah.
- As in interjection : noun emphatic exclamation
- Egad, there is more fall than rise, and it is anything but gentle.'
- Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- This post I held until I grew out of it, when I withdrew from town, but egad!
- Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Fly, my sweetest, move those dainty feet of thine, for egad!
- Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Egad, I forget what you said to me, or whether you said anything.
- Extract from : « The Macdermots of Ballycloran » by Anthony Trollope
- "Egad, I scarcely fancy trusting you," said he, half peevishly.
- Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
- Egad, I think I 'd have done it, even though I might have made a blunder.
- Extract from : « That Boy Of Norcott's » by Charles James Lever
- "Egad, I've tried it for some years without discovering it," said Skeffy, gravely.
- Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
- We have only to stretch out our hands to gather it in—more than we want, egad!
- Extract from : « Four Years in Rebel Capitals » by T. C. DeLeon
- Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
- Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett
- “Egad, there might as well have been no rebellion at all,” said Beauclerc dryly.
- Extract from : « A Daughter of Raasay » by William MacLeod Raine
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