wounds! excl.
a euph. excl., lit. ‘God’s wounds!’.
![]() | Trial of Treasure Aiiii: Woundes and hartes who can abyde this. [...] Woundes and fleshe, I was almost down on my back. | |
![]() | Long Meg of Westminster 6: If any stale Cutter comes in and thinks to pay the shot with swearing, hey! gogs! wounds! | |
![]() | London Spy X 245: Wounds, my Lady [...] have a care you don no fall. | |
![]() | ‘Helter Skelter’ in | Poems on Divers Subjects (1706) 176: Wouns, hold your Popish tittle-tattle.|
![]() | Recruiting Officer II iii: Wauns, I have a month’s mind to go with him! | |
![]() | Gotham Election I i: Wounds, play what I bad ye. | |
![]() | Provoked Husband IV i: Waunds! Lad, I shall ha’ noa Stomach at this Rate! | |
![]() | Laugh and Be Fat 5: Are these his Tricks, with a Pox to him? Wounds! | |
![]() | Roderick Random (1979) 48: Waunds, captain! whay woan’t yau sooffer the poor waggoneer to meake a penny? | |
![]() | Englishman in Paris in Works (1799) I 35: Wounds! how the powder flew about, and the Monsieurs scour’d. | |
![]() | Lottery Jest-Book 16: ‘Wounds,’ answered he, ‘for all she looks so plaguy fine.’. | |
![]() | Collection of Songs II 12: [song title] . | ‘Wounds, Here’s Such a Coil’|
![]() | Poor Gentleman I i: Wauns! let me come at him. | |
![]() | Men of Character I 58: ‘Wounds!’ roared the waggoner. |