Bejabbers
(used as a mild oath expressing astonishment, dismay, disbelief, or the like).
Informal. dickens; devil:
The fighter’s left uppercut knocked the bejabbers out of his opponent.
Historical Examples
bejabbers then, we won’t be afther murtherin’ him outright; we’ll jest let him go back to the river an’ dhrown hisself!
Down the Yellowstone Lewis R. Freeman
The latter looked long and carefully at the thing and muttered, “bejabbers, I never saw one like that before!”
Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Daniel Turner Holmes
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