Jabers

or jabez. BE (or BY) JABERS (or JABEZ), intj. (common).—An oath.

  1821.  D. HAGGART, Life, 118. BY JAPPERS! we were tould he was the boy.

  1890.  HUME NISBET, Bail Up! p. 265. A head wind, BE JABBERS!

  1892.  HUME NISBET, The Bushranger’s Sweetheart, p. 152. Arrah, BE JABBERS! but that’s the foinest song I have listened to since I left Ould Oirland.