Jehosaphat

biblical name (II Samuel viii.16), used as a mild expletive in American English from 1857; presumably another euphemistic substitution for Jesus.

adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams are probably unreliable.

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updated on October 10, 2017

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