'dswounds
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dzwuːndz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dzwundz/
- Rhymes: -uːndz
Interjection
'dswounds
- (archaic) Synonym of zounds.
- Synonym: 'swounds
- 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:
- ’Dſvvounds! vvhy doſt thou not lay out thy Money to purchaſe a Place at Court, of honeſt Iſrael?
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