A humorous or dialectal variant of begorra; a light oath expressing surprise or amazement.
Variant spelling of begorra with -y ending substitution, possibly influenced by words like 'sorry' or 'worry.' From the same Irish English oath tradition.
The -y ending variant suggests how these oaths evolved through different regions and speech communities—'begorry' may represent how some speakers pronounced or spelled the exclamation differently, creating natural variation in folk etymologies.
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