Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a mild oath, lit. blood and wounds!, i.e. of Christ.

1562		W. Bullein Bk of Simples fol. 28: What a sweete heauen is this? Haue at all, kockes woundes, blood and nayles, caste the house out at the window, and let the Diuell pay the Malte man.
[1568		U. Fulwell Like Will to Like 12: Blood, wounds, and nails! it will make a man mad].
1692		C. Gildon Dialogue from Hell of Cuckoldom 12: They were deaf to Reason here [...] and one swore D---me, Bl--d and Z--ns, another Oaths all around the Compass.
1706		R. Estcourt Fair Example III ii: Blood and Thunder! I’ll broil ye, you Limb of Satan.
1707		Humours of a Coffee-House 24 Oct. 43: Blood and Gunpowder, what would you have one do?
1728		Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband V iii: Blood and Thunder!
1731		Fielding Letter Writers III vii: Blood and Furies, I shall become the Jest of the Town.
1749		Smollett (trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas I 13: Blood and oons! I am robbed of one hundred pistoles.
1759–67		Sterne Tristram Shandy (1949) 368: Blood an’ ounds, shouted the corporal.
1760		B. Weatherby Great News from Hell 14: O, ’sblood and Ownds, says one of the, you are not at W-th-rby’s now.
1762		Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 93: But he, of no one soul afraid, / swore blood and oons, he’d keep the maid.
1776		in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 142: They’ll fight like devils – blood and ’oons.
1788		‘The Proker’ Whiskey Friskey Songs 7: Then Pat, he roar’d out, Blood an’ouns, do you take me for a Stoker.
1793		Sporting Mag. May II 97/2: The amiable Hibernian captain, who ‘blood and ’ounds’ was so anxious for a ‘little tilting bout in the field of honour’.
1796		Chester Courant 17 June 1/2: Cornelius O’Crotchet’s Description of Longman and Broderip’s Music Manufactory in Cheapside, London. Having heard a great buzz about Longman and Brod’rip, / [...] / Just only to take a slight squint at their shop: / But, oh! thunder and ’ounds, / What a bodd’ring of sounds, / Echo’d thro’ the whole building. / Blood and turf! he’d look back, / One of Longman’s grand forte-pianos to hear. / [...] / And suppose we should sup where we dine, / Why, ’tis all by the way of Cheapside!
1800		G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law I i: Why, blood and thunder!
1801		Sporting Mag. Jan. XVII 204/1: Och, blood and ’ounds – cried Darby.
1812		W. Combe Doctor Syntax, Picturesque (1868) 72/1: I’ll give the coin: – Why, blood and ’ounds! / I wish ’twere for five hundred pounds!
1812		Spirit of Irish Wit 100: Blur an ounds, when did you hear of a robbery?
1815		‘The Irishman’s Theatrical Description’ in Vocal Mag. 2 Jan. 33: Like a bear with head sore, blood and turf! how he’d roar.
1821		‘An Amateur’ Real Life in London I 123: Blood an owns, boderation and blarney (said an Irishman).
1822		Tom and Jerry; Musical Extravaganza II iv: O blur an’ oons!
1822		C. Dibdin Yngr Larks of Logic, Tom and Jerry III ii: Blood and turf! somebody’s picked my pocket.
1826		Portfolio (London) 12 Nov. 39/1: Arrah, blood and thunder! luke at that fellow [...] did you ever see such a jackdaw?
1830		Lytton Paul Clifford I 215: ‘Thunder and oons, Old Bags!’ quoth mine host of the Jolly Angler, ‘this will never do.’.
1831		Satirist (London) 12 June 74/2: ‘I — och! blood-and-oons [...] it’s no use to consale it, I married one of ’em next morning.
1838		‘The Dock-Yard Ghost’ Bentley’s Misc. Mar. 288: Oh! blood and ’ounds! what will I do, anyhow?
1838		Crim.-Con. Gaz. 17 Nov. 100/3: ‘Arrah, blood and oons [...] what religion are you following?’.
1839		(con. 1715) W.H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard (1917) 117: Blood-an’-’ouns!
1841		‘The New Policeman’ Dublin Comic Songster 132: Blood and ouns, faith, and why do you laugh?
1846		D. Corcoran Pickings from N.O. Picayune 118: Blood-an’-turf! to be sure I saw it [...] glistenin’ like a cat’s eye.
1850		Life in Boston & N.Y. (Boston, MA) 27 Apr. n.p.: The theatrical Irishman, who [...] utters the phrase — ‘Och, blood-an-’ouns,’ at least twice in every sentence.
1855		T. Haliburton Nature and Human Nature I 302: Blood and ounds! you cowardly furrin rascal.
1858		‘Shadow’ Midnight Scenes 92: ‘Oh, thunderin’ blud-enouns — I tho’t it was the police!’.
1860		R. Nicholson Rogue’s Progress (1966) 170: Blood and zounds, sir! you may wound the feelings of the noble lord.
1865		‘Tim Finigan’s Wake’ in I. Beadle Comic and Sentimental Song Bk 60: Whack, hurra, blood and ’ounds, ye sowl ye.
1873		J. O’Connor Wanderings of a Vagabond 282: Blood-an-ouns! Can’t you untherstand a gintleman when he spakes English. I want the money an’ must have it.
1879		C.J. Kickham Knocknagow 137: ‘Blood-an-ounkers, Mat,’ he exclaimed.
1884		R.C. Hartranft Journal of Solomon Sidesplitter 28: Blood an’ ounds! my dear fellow.
1908		L. Doyle Ballygullion 182: ‘Blood an’ ouns!’ sez James, ‘what’s that?’.
1908		Aberdeen People’s Jrnl 15 Aug. 5/4: ‘Blood and thunder!’ he growled.
1920		S. O’Kelly Leprechaun of Kilmeen n.p.: Blood an’ ’ounds, Kelleher, but you’re beaten at last! [BS].
1939		P. Gallagher My Story 50: Blood an’ ’ounds, is that you, Paddy?
1950		L.O’Flaherty Insurrection 65: ‘Blood in ounce!’ he muttered hoarsely.