gadswoons

English

Etymology

Contraction of God's wounds; see zounds.

Interjection

gadswoons

  1. (archaic) Synonym of zounds
    • 1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock:
      Well, I thought that, gadswoons, I would have a peep at his Infernal Majesty.
    • 1961, Rosser Evans, A Feast of Friends, page 106:
      Gadswoons! I muttered, could it be that the Young Mistress herself would finally take dinner with us?
    • 2017, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Pirates of the Levant: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste:
      Gadswoons I will. I swear on myself and on Satan and on the mother who bore me that I'll hang twelve of you today from one yard-arm if someone doesn't own up.
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