ads n.
God’s, used in various excl. oaths, the major ones being listed below (cf. adzooks! excl.; ods n.).
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sir Patient Fancy I: If I can purchase him, and my own Dog prove right, I’ll be Duke of Ducking-Pond, ads zoz. | |
| Lucky Chance III vi: We’ll give young wenches leave to whine and blush, And fly those blessings which, ads bobs, they wish. | |
| Humours of a Coffee-House 20 Aug. 7: Adsdeath, Sir. | |
| Rambling Fuddle-Caps 8: Can’t a Man tumble down in a Pudding, Ads fish. | |
| ‘O Let No Eyes Be Dry’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) V 131: May never Pence nor Pounds / Come more within the Bounds, / Of her Pocket Ad-sounds. | |
| Pamela I 89: Ads-bobbers! said Mr. Longman. | |
| Sir Launcelot Greaves II 7: Adds-buntlines! — I did’n’t go to give you the lie, brother. | |
| Friar and Boy 34: Her husband [...] cry’d, ads-foot wife, hast thou got / A clapper at thy nose? | |
| ‘Aunt Fanny’ Ingoldsby Legends (1842) 141: Here unlucky Janet / Took her needle and ran it / Right into her thumb, and cried loudly, ‘Ads cuss it!’. | |
| Man of Pleasure’s Illus. Pocket-book n.p.: ’Ads bods, she’s wondrous pretty! |
In exclamations
God’s blood!
| Old Bachelor III ii: Adsbud, who’s in fault, mistress of mine? | |
| London Spy VII 174: Adsblood [...] you look as Ugly in those black Vizards as my Toad here. [Ibid.] XI 257: Ads-bleed, I waant gooe in among so many vine Vouk, not I. | |
| Bickerstaff’s Burying Act III: Adsbud, who do you think to chouse? | |
| Artifice Act II: Ads-budikins, ne’er a Coxcomb in the Kingdom shall plant as much as a Primrose in my Ground. |
God’s heart!
| Rover IV:iii: Blunt. Cruel, adsheartlikins as a Gally-slave, or a Spanish Whore. | |
| Rover I:i: Blunt. Why, ’dsheartlikins, I love a frank Soul—When did you ever hear of an honest Woman that took a Man’s Mony? | |
| ‘The Countryman’s Ramble thro’ Bartholemew Fair’ in Bagford Ballads (1878) I 23: They brought me Cans, which cost a penny apiece, ads heart. | |
| London Spy V 106: Ads-heart! It’s more by half like a Goose-Pye I have seen at my landlord’s. | |
| Hudibras Redivivus II:4 4: Ads Heart! how prettily they talk? | |
| Bickerstaff’s Burying Act III: Adsheart, I shall be left ashoar. | |
| Penkethman’s Jests 56: Adsheart! says he, where is this Blockhead? | |
| Laugh and Be Fat 28: Adsheart, says his Majesty’s Representative. | |
| Sir Charles Grandison (1812) VI 529: ‘Ads-heart,’ said my uncle. |
God’s (heart’s) wounds!
| ‘The Countryman’s Ramble thro’ Bartholemew Fair’ in Bagford Ballads (1878) I 23: Ads wounds, Ralph, did ever zee such Rogues and Whores? | |
| ‘Debauchery Scared’ in Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 161: He [...] bid her rise before daylight, and go, / or Ad-swounds! he would heartily thump her. | |
| ‘Poet’s Ramble after Riches’ Writings (1704) 16: Ads-wounds, said I, you Rogue, you Dog, / Why, what dost take me for a Hog. [Ibid.] 19: A glander’d, tir’d, founder’d Horse, / Ads-heartly-wounds, ’tis worse and worse. | |
| ‘The Country-Man’s Ramble through Bartholomew Fair’ in Pills to Purge Melancholy I 56: Adswounds, Ralph, did ever see zuch Rogues & Whores. | |
| ‘Humours of a Coffee-House’ Writings (1704) 308: Tell! Adsheartlikins! If I should not tell, who should! | |
| Provoked Husband I i: Ad’s waunds, and heart! Master Manly! [Ibid.] IV i: ’Ads wauntlikins! as soft and plump as a Marrow-Pudding. | |
| Laugh and Be Fat 71: Adsheartliwounds, cries Roger, none of mine, you wicked Baggage you whose is she then? | |
| Account of the Malefactors executed at Tyburn 18th Mar. 1740 part II 10: Ads Waudds, Madam, that Ise do thof it was as deep as the Sea. | |
| Honest Fellow 92: ‘Ads wounds and heart!’. |
God’s life!
| Old Bachelor IV iv: Adslidikins, bully, we’ll wallow in wine and women! | |
| London Spy XI 257: Ads, my Loif, says he. | |
| Twin-Rivals I ii: Truman! ads my life, he’s one of my babies! | |
| in Pills to Purge Melancholy II 345: Well I’ll be again to School, Ads life a Player — Yet be such a Fool. | |
| Sir Charles Grandison (1812) I 13: Ad’s-my-life, I like your answer! | |
| Rejected Addrresses (1873) 94: I 'm sure it cannot be a hum; I’ll catch at the handle, add’s life! |
a mild excl.
| Match in Newgate IV i: Ads nigs, because you have read St. George for England [...] forsooth. | |
| Round-heads IV i: Ads nigs, what a Change is here like to be. | |
| in Pills to Purge Melancholy I 39: Ads niggs cries Sir Domini, Gemini Gomini . | |
| in Pills to Purge Melancholy VI 335: I swear adsnigs, the Canting Whigs, / Have run their Knavish Race. | |
 | ‘song’ in Bullfinch 238: Add sniggers! go talk to your parrot / [...] / I know a sheep’s head from a carrot. |
God’s oath!
| Twin-Rivals IV i: ’Tis my brother [...] ’adso, get into the closet till he be gone. | |
| Clarissa V 181: Ad-so, he did not think of that. |
see adzooks! excl.