Gadzooks and “Zounds” being from the same expression, ‘God’s wounds’; in that a perfect infinite being wouldn’t get injured. So something unbelievable, something impossible.
Which was disappointing to me as reading it in comic books, I always heard it my head as “zounds” rhyming with “sounds”, but it tain’t so.
Sacre bleu!
I always wondered why the blue was sacred, never realizing it was a minced oath of “sacré Dieu!” or “holy god!”
Another of my favorites is “gadzooks”
You clearly haven’t tasted a good blue cheese.
You are most likely right!
dag nabbit
Gadzooks and “Zounds” being from the same expression, ‘God’s wounds’; in that a perfect infinite being wouldn’t get injured. So something unbelievable, something impossible.
Which was disappointing to me as reading it in comic books, I always heard it my head as “zounds” rhyming with “sounds”, but it tain’t so.
Gadzooks is supposedly “gods hooks” (nails from the crucifixion) rather than the wounds.
Hm!