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Egad

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Egad
    An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. egad
    An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (interj) Egad
    ē-gad′ a minced oath.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Euphemistic corruption of the oath, “by God.”

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary By God.

Usage in the news

Eager for some moisturizer, I went straight to the bathroom, where I discovered that - egad. ashingtonpost.com

Through eight games, Denver ranks dead last in the NBA in free-throw shooting (at an egads. fortmorgantimes.com

Heather Evertt, co-founder of EGAD. fit.org

Usage in scientific papers

The anti-de Sitter (AdS ) spacetime with negative cosmological constant Λ, denoted by (N , egAdS ), is a static spherically symmetric solution of the vacuum Einstein equations.
Positive energy theorem for (4+1)-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes

Let S be the spinor bundle of (N , egAdS ) and its restriction to H4 .
Positive energy theorem for (4+1)-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes

Usage in literature

Egad, you would think her a plaguy fine woman! "The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio" by Giovanni Boccaccio

Like an oyster at low ebb, egad. "The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]" by William Congreve

Egad, I would have eaten it if it had been a Newfoundland dog, and I took it, and cooked it, and ate it. "How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887" by George W. Peck

Egad, and I was just such as he is now, when I used to creep like a snail unwillingly to those scholastic shades. "Mystic London:" by Charles Maurice Davies

Aye, egad, and their heads to boot. "The Indian Princess" by James Nelson Barker

And why should she not ride with a gallant at sunrise for an early cup of coffee, egad? "The Magnificent Adventure" by Emerson Hough

Egad, I believe the boy despises me. "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson" by Robert Louis Stevenson

Egad, we've made enough noise already. "Astounding Stories, May, 1931" by Various

Egad, I remember a man in the house next door who had a little girl. "Cupid's Middleman" by Edward B. Lent

Ey God, a favorite expletive, is the original of egad, and goes back of Chaucer. "Our Southern Highlanders" by Horace Kephart

Usage in poetry
He vews with pleasant look
This pooty flower of May,
Then, says the wenarable Duke,
"Egad, it's my buthday."
"Lines On A Late Hospicious Ewent," by William Makepeace Thackeray Author object (711)
"Na, but yo shonna sheer, I think,
Unless yole giz a quart o drink.
For aw yo tauke o mending th' lad,
Yole fill yore pocket first egad."
"The Wig" by William Hutton
"A boy!" cried the Parson, "Ye pagans come down!
All Christians shall sing and be thankful.
Go fetch us the child in his christening gown;
Egad, but we'll give him a tankful!"—Chorus.
"The Christening" by John Jay Chapman Author object (381)