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zounds

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6 lettersPronunciation /zuːndz/Sorted dnosuzStarts with ZEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc.

Word origin

Minced form of God's wounds, with reference to the wounds from Christ's crucifixion. Compare strewth, blimey, gadzooks, 'sblood, crikey.

Used in a sentence

  • 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death!
  • Bounds, mounds, lounds, founds, kounds, downds, rounds, pounds, zounds! — hounds — ha! hounds — I have it.
  • "Zounds!" he exclaimed. "What the dickens is that?"

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