'dswounds en · INTJ
Pronunciation
- /dzwundz/ (General-American)
- /dzwuːndz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Contraction of God's wounds; see zounds.
Meanings
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(archaic) Synonym of zounds.
’Dſvvounds! vvhy doſt thou not lay out thy Money to purchaſe a Place at Court, of honeſt Iſrael?
1733, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], Alexander Pope, compiler, “Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, The History of John Bull. […]. The Second Part. Chapter IX. A Copy of Nic. Frog’s letter to John Bull.”, in Miscellanies, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] Benjamin Motte, […], →OCLC, page 107: