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bejesus; bejasus noun used as a mild expletive US, 1908 An ameliorated “Jesus”, originally recorded in 1908 but not widely used until the 1930s.- I interviewed Garbo three times, and I will slap the bejesus out of anybody who says I didn’t. — Earl Wilson, I am Gazing Into My 8-Ball, p. 63, 1945
- Becos by this time there’s the carptender and he’s by this time got a kind of crowbar and he tearing the bejeezus out of the back of the newstand. — John McNulty, Third Avenue, New York, p. 39, 1946
- But stories about dykes bore the bejesus out of me. I just can’t put myself in their shoes. — Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, p. 21, 1958
- Did you know he got four purple hearts in Vietnam? Did he? Bejesus. — Doug Lang, Freaks, p. 21, 1973
- There we were, Tom, in the pool in Leisureland, down in your part of the world, playing, you know, trying to drown the bejayzus out of each other... — Joseph O’Connor, Red Roses and Petrol, p. 70, 1995
- That Saturday morning, April Fool’s Day, one of the lifeguards was impressing the bejesus out of a ride-along female citizen by whipping his boat into 180s on Fiesta Bay... — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 22, 1996
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