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Czech
Pronunciation
Participle
zut
- masculine singular passive participle of zout
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From 1813. Origin disputed:.
- Combination of zest and flûte ;
- Formed from a linking z and ut/hut, attested 1791:
- Allons, allons, hut! pas de ça:Le Véritable P. Duchesne f., Grand compliment
- qu'il aille à Charenton, et hut. Martainville, Une Demi-heure de cabaret, 1804
- Sais-tu la musique ? eh bien ut. Ut, zut may be a corruption of the Latin ut, a word used in typographers' jargon: Ut C'est le premier mot du souhait que se faisoient en buvant les anciens imprimeurs : Ut tibi prosit meri potio (« Que grand bien vous fasse ce bon vin pur »). Par abréviation l'on se contenta ensuite du mot ut. Gattel, 1797
- From an older word, zot, which is found in diablezot
- It may be purely onomatopoeic, as pft, pfuit; see zou
Pronunciation
Interjection
zut
- damn, shoot, dang, cripes, rats, "dash it!", "hang it all!"
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