jakers

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English

Etymology

Interjection

jakers

  1. (Ireland, colloquial, dated) An expression of surprise or emotion
    • 1838, Charles Dance, “The Irish Lion”, in The Acting National Drama, volume 4, Chapman & Hall, page 75:
      Be jakers, what are they hushing at—and staring at me as if I wor a Roschicrucian.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC:
      O jakers, Jenny, says Joe, how short your shirt is!
    • 2013, Nora Roberts, Irish Thoroughbred, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 25:
      "Jakers, but we worked." With a long breath she shut her eyes. "But it was too much for one woman and a half-grown girl [] "