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Usually I can tell from their context, where the words scrawled in my notebook in need of definition come from in the text. When I can’t tell, this is the fastest place to search.
Begob only occurs once outside the Cyclops episode.
Begob means “by god” and so does begorrah.
[Telemachus] [529] —SO I DO, MRS CAHILL, says she. BEGOB, MA’AM, says Mrs Cahill, GOD SEND [Cyclops] [14398] Doing the rapparee and Rory of the hill. But, begob, Joe was equal to [Cyclops] [14404] So begob the citizen claps his paw on his knee and he says: [Cyclops] [14487] So anyhow Terry brought the three pints Joe was standing and begob [Cyclops] [14550] begob what was it only that bloody old pantaloon Denis Breen in his [Cyclops] [14681] Begob he was what you might call flabbergasted. [Cyclops] [14734] And, begob, I saw his physog do a peep in and then slidder off again. [Cyclops] [15510] Hoho begob says I to myself says I. That explains the milk in the cocoanut [Cyclops] [15606] Begob I saw there was trouble coming. And Bloom explaining he meant on [Cyclops] [15633] And begob there he was passing the door with his books under his [Cyclops] [16289] the yard to pumpship and begob (hundred shillings to five) while I was [Cyclops] [16597] But begob I was just lowering the heel of the pint when I saw the [Cyclops] [16605] And begob he got as far as the door and they holding him and he [Cyclops] [16692] Begob he drew his hand and made a swipe and let fly. Mercy of God the sun [Cyclops] [16742] he would so, but begob the citizen would have been lagged for assault
