Zounds

When you go home tonight, roll some twenty siders with friends, use the word "zounds" in a sentence, then leaf through the 1E Dungeon Master's Guide and marvel at the breadth of the man's imagination. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2008)

Yet time was, when the innocent word "zounds" was written with the same culpatory dashes and hyphens as the "damns that have had their day;" and "pigs," we suppose, were exenterated in like manner: suggested only by their heads and tails, -- the first letter and the last. ❋ Various (N/A)

Who that utters the word "zounds," imagines that he is speaking of such awful and inconceivable things as "God's wounds," though literally he is doing so? ❋ Various (N/A)

Natalie Angier weighs in on the human proclivity for cursing in a lengthy essay in the NYT: "The Jacobean dramatist Ben Jonson peppered his plays with fackings and "peremptorie Asses," and Shakespeare could hardly quill a stanza without inserting profanities of the day like "zounds" or "sblood" ❋ Unknown (2010)

BTW, did you know that zounds! is a foreshortening of God's Wounds? ❋ Karenmiller (2008)

Labels: comics comments: annie said ... zounds! where did you meet this amazing scoundrel of graphic wonder! ❋ Heather McDougal (2008)

June 3, 2009 at 7:35 am uh ohes… parrothead starting to zounds like Igor…. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was in deep awshucks mode, even admitting twice -- zounds! ❋ Unknown (2008)

February 7, 2008 at 10:45 am fear… is zounds liek… Boing boing boing… ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hmmm…zounds liek ai hab tew draw up an action plan outline fur Nov 2. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yes | No | Report from jaja wrote 3 years 12 weeks ago zounds needs go to CENSORED. shut the CENSORED up zounds. ❋ Unknown (2006)

December 21, 2007 at 3:06 pm zounds xactlee laik meh, c b… heehee…laik chezbergr! cb! ❋ Unknown (2007)

My observation is that Catholic profanity seems to be very Catholic, but euphemized "'Sblood", "zounds", "begob", and things I can't remember from Rabelais', Rimbaud's and Canadian French. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Besides that, we would have given you to the bargain some of our grapes, but, by his zounds, you may chance to repent it, and possibly have need of us at another time, when we shall use you after the like manner, and therefore remember it. ❋ Unknown (2002)

People need to use these two words more often: bullox and zounds. ❋ Bard (2000)

Afterwards Sid had wagged a finger at me and explained that on those two nights we'd been giving performances for people who'd arranged a costume theater-party and been going to attend a masquerade ball, and 'zounds, when would I learn to guard my half-patched pate? ❋ Fritz Leiber (1951)

"'Tis true, but zounds!" replied the squire with glee, ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

'All they want then is a couple of field pieces; zounds, sir!' ❋ Various (N/A)

zounds! [I am] [undone]! ❋ Moo (2003)

!![ZOUNDS]!! ❋ Wolfnipplechips (2016)

[Sadly] I have [no example], but I read it in [Shakespeare] somewhere. ❋ Stu Savory (2003)

The Zounds could kick rock, [rap], and [emo's] ass all within one [nanosecond] of their music. ❋ Honkeytard (2006)