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English
Etymology
Contraction of God's wounds; see zounds.
Pronunciation
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?