zounds
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /zaʊndz/, /zuːndz/
- (mostly dated) Expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc.
- 1597, Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"
- 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death!
- 1870, R.M. Ballantyne, "The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands"
- Bounds, mounds, lounds, founds, kounds, downds, rounds, pounds, zounds! — hounds — ha! hounds — I have it.
- 1900, J.C. Hutcheson, "Bob Strong's Holidays"
- "Zounds!" he exclaimed. "What the dickens is that?"
- 1597, Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"
- 'swounds
- 'dswounds
- zooterkins
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