gadswoons
English edit
Etymology edit
Contraction of God's wounds; see zounds.
Interjection edit
gadswoons
- (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.