Green’s Dictionary of Slang

ods n.

also odds
[od n.]

a mild euph. for God’s, used in comb. in various excl. oaths; the major ones being listed below (cf. ads n.).

[UK]Jonson Case Is Altered I i: Od’slid, man, service is ready to go up. [Ibid.] III i: Rachel! odslight, come to me.
[UK]Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour II i: Ods ’slid, an I could compass it.
[UK]N. Field Woman is a Weathercock III iii: Od’s will, have you nobody to put your gulls upon but knights?
[UK]Jonson Bartholomew Fair IV v: Od’s foot, you bawd in grease, are you talking?
[UK]Jonson, Fletcher & Middleton Widdow II ii: ’Odds light is he come too?
[UK]Laughing Mercury 22-29 Sept. 197: ’Zudsfutt, quoth Dick.
[UK]Motteux (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk V 554: Odd’s belly, it is not in my nature to lie idle.
[UK]Cibber She Would and She Would Not V i: If she does not give me a hearty Smack too, Odds-Winds and Thunder, she is not the good-humour’d Girl I take her for.
[UK]S. Centlivre Wonder! I i: Ods, if I had you alone, housewife, I’d show you how fond I could be.
[UK]S. Centlivre Artifice Act III: Odsave me!
[UK]Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband I i: Ods wookers! [...] Ods Guts and Gizards, Madam!
[US]P. Freneau ‘Political Balance’ in Prescott & Sanders Intro. to Amer. Poetry (1932) 83: Old Vulcan replied ‘Odds splutter a nails!’.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Odd’s plut and her nails, a Welch oath.
[Ire]M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals I ii: Married!— Odd’s wucks and tar! no, no.
[UK]‘Peter Pindar’ ‘Farewell Odes’ Works (1794) I 163: ‘Ods curse it!’ cried the other, ‘’tis no joke.’.
[UK]‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 92: Odds lickens, there are eyes as black as any foot, cheeks as red as hung beef, and bubbies as plump and zoft as good vat bacon.
[UK]‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 22: ‘Odsheft! We all know Skipper Clark’.
[UK]T. Morton Speed the Plough I i: Odds dickens and daizeys!
[UK]J. Churchill ‘Friend Hodge’ in Poems II 135: All breathless with haste, to the ’Squire did Hodge run , / ‘Ods-bud, plaize yor Worshep, chill zhow ye zuch vun’.
[UK]R. Anderson ‘Nichol the Newsmonger’ Cumberland Ballads (1805) 6: Odswinge, lad, there will be rare drinking!
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
[UK]J. Bell Jr. (ed.) Rhymes of Northern Bards 26: Odds marcy! Wye, marrows, becrike it’s Lord ’Size.
[UK]J. Bell Jr. (ed.) Rhymes of Northern Bards 32: Odds heft! my pit claes [i.e. clothes] [...] Are waurse o’ wear.
[[UK]‘Splutter Hur Nails! Heigho!’ in Vocal Mag. 1 June 178: Shenkin-ap-Morgan fell in love, / Splutter hur nails! heigho!].
[UK] ‘Roger of Taunton Dean’ Goldfinch Song Bk 11: Odsucks says he, I’ve a sack o’ wheat.
[UK]J. Kenney Spring and Autumn II i: Such noises! odds dickens! such uproars!
[UK]Navy at Home II 130: Odds fidikins! [...] This is rascally!
[US]Ely’s Hawk & Buzzard (NY) Sept. 1 n.p.: [chorus] Od Zooks &c.
[Ire]Kerry Eve. Post 21 Mar. 4/2: ‘Odds, flints and triggers! What will the world come to?’.
[UK]Comic Almanack May 54: And then, odds wigs! / How very great he felt!
[Ire]W.H. Maxwell Rambling Recollections of a Soldier of Fortune 222: Odds wrinkles! here was a confession!
[UK]W.L. Rede Our Village I i: So if you’re for cutting of capers, / Odds hang it, ma’am, cut ’em with me!
[UK]J. Lindridge Sixteen-String Jack 261: Odd’s daisy, mun.
[US]Orleans Indep. Standard (Irasbrugh, VT) 24 July 1: ‘Odds splutterface!’ he said.
[US]‘Cad McBallastir’ Society as I Have Foundered It 39: Odds daggers and blades!
[UK]Punch 13 June 288: Odsfakins! a stately procession, which ought to have been set in the centre of an admiring multitude.
Leeds Dly Call (SD) 13 Dec. 7/1: Ods daggers! there was sport for him.
[UK]A. Binstead Mop Fair 56: And your phrases! odds [...] your phrases!
[UK]Comic Life 13 Feb. 1: Odds, cough-drops! You’ve done something now boys!

In exclamations

odsbobs! (also guds bobs! odds bob! odds bobs! odds bodikins! odsbodlikins! odsbud!)

a general oath, lit. ‘God’s body!’ and vars.

[UK]Beaumont & Fletcher Wild-Goose-Chase I iii: Od’s-bobs, yu are angry, Lady.
[UK]Laughing Mercury 22-29 Sept. 197: Guds bobs (quoth Dick).
[UK]Mennis & Smith ‘To the Tune of Beginning of the World’ Wit Restor’d (1817) 291: Ods, bodikins nay fy away, I prethee son do not so.
[UK]Dryden Sir Martin Mar-all IV i: Ods Bobs this is very pretty. [...] Bodikins I like not that so well.
[UK]Behn Lucky Chance I iii: Odsbobs, sweetheart, thy health.
[UK]Congreve Love for Love II i: Odsbud, I would my son were an Egyptian mummy for thy sake.
[UK]D. Manley Lost Lover I i: Ods-bobs thou wilt not do that, I hope.
[UK]S. Centlivre Gamester Act V: Odsbud, sir, go to Angelica, this minute.
[UK]R. Steele Tatler No. 33 n.p.: He may run into Passion, and cry, Odsbodikins, you do not say right.
[UK]‘Nickydemus Ninnyhammer’ Homer in a nut-shell 8: But out he drew his Ponyard quickly, / Thought he, Odsbodlikins I’ll tickle ye.
[UK]Cibber Refusal 43: Odsbodlikins, Mr. Frankly, you are an ingenious Gentleman.
[UK]C. Coffey Devil to Pay II i: Odsbobs! what a Clap was there! it shook up the very House.
[UK]Fielding Don Quixote II viii: Odsbodlikins! Mrs. Dorothea, you have a very strange Sort of a Taste, I can tell you that.
[UK]Smollett Roderick Random (1979) 13: Odds bob! I’d desire no better news. [Ibid.] 343: Odds bobs! I wish you would hold discourse with her.
[UK]Smollett (trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas I 72: ‘Odsbodikins!’ cried he.
[UK]A. Murphy Upholsterer I ii: S’bodikins!
[Ire]K. O’Hara Midas I iv: Odsbobs – I’ll force her.
[Ire]J. O’Keeffe Farmer 17: Just as your Country Folks [swear] ‘Odibodikins’.
[UK]York Dialogue Between Ned and Harry 21: Odds bud, a third will say.
[UK]‘Brother Rook’ Willy Wood & Greedy Grizzle 11: ‘Odsbobs!’ cry’d Willy — ‘why the deuce / Give me sic scandal and abuse!’.
[UK]G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law I i: Odsbobs, my lady!
[UK]C. Dibdin Yngr Village Fete 22: Odds, – bobs – how fresh and nice you look to-day!
[UK]D. Humphreys Yankey in England 86: I’ll knock him down, flat as a flounder! Odds bodikins!
[Scot]Life and Trial of James Mackcoull 11: ‘Odd’s bodikins!’ cried Drake, ‘Here’s the old raven I told you of.’.
[Scot]Scots Mag. 1 Nov. 100/2: Such a one as he — odsbobs, Sir!
[US]J. Neal Down-Easters I 197: I’ll – odds bobbs! I’ll beat you to death.
[UK](con. 1737–9) W.H. Ainsworth Rookwood (1857) 60: Odsbodikins! [...] a noble reward!
[UK]Marryat Snarleyyow I 105: Odds bobs, hammer and tongs, as long as I’m at sea.
[UK](con. 1715) W.H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard (1917) 88: ‘Odd’s boddikins!’ cried Jack.
[UK]R. Barham ‘Lay of St. Cuthbert’ Ingoldsby Legends (1842) 235: And as for the shocking bad habit of swearing [...] Eschew it! – and leave it to dust-men and mobs, / Nor commit yourself much beyond ‘Zooks!’ or ‘Odsbobs!’.
[UK]Hereford Jrnl 5 June 4/1: Though ‘Od,’ thus writ, pronounced maybe, / ‘Odsbobs’ a genuine oddity!
[UK](con. 15C) C. Reade Cloister and Hearth (1864) I 276: Ods bodikins! what, have you dug him up.
[UK]Pall Mall Gaz. 7 June 11/1: ‘Oddsbobs!’ cries Jerry [...] ‘there is a fine plum-pudding’.
[UK]G.A. Sala in Living London (1883) Apr. 122: I dread, ere long, the onslaughts of questioners concerning the origin of [...] ‘ods-bobs’.
[UK]Lichfield Mercury 14 Dec. 6/3: Is he going to join those lispers now? Marry, go to! Ods bodkins! I’fackins and the rest — he cannot.
[UK]P. M’Neill Blawearie 85: ‘Ods bods,’ ejaculated Will Hood, ‘here comes that great grumpus crying like a wane.’.
[UK]Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 15 Feb. 5/1: Odds bodkins! likewise gadsooks! How the time does fly along.
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Nov. 32/3: His wife said, ‘Grammercy, my lord! How fare ye?’ as if he were a tram-conductor instead of being merely a temporary arsenal, and he replied, ‘Odds bodikins,’ or words to that effect.
[UK]K. Grahame Wind in the Willows (1995) 136: ‘Oddsbodikins!’ said the sergeant of police.
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Dec. 14/4: He has great gobs of humor, i’ faith, and also oddsbodikins, in his mental and moral make-up.
[UK]Yorks. Eve. Post 16 Feb. 4/1: Gadzooks! Odds Bodikins! [...] Straight as a falcon [...] flies Panshine after every speck of rust and tarnish.
[US] ‘Miscellaneous Notes’ in AS III:3 259: Such terms as ‘gadzooks,’ ‘zounds,’ ‘marry come up,’ and ‘Odd’s bodikins,’ were slang.
[UK]Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 143: I had always thought it was just a thing you read in books. Like ‘Quotha!’ I mean to say, or ‘Odds bodikins!’.
ods blood! (also odd’s bud! odd’s but!)

a general oath, lit. ‘God’s blood!’.

[UK]D’Urfey ‘The New-Market Song’ in Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads (1885) V:1 144: ‘Ods but!’ cries my Country-man John, ‘was ever the like before seen?’.
[UK]Cibber Woman’s Wit I i: Odsbud, I lose time, I must ferret the Dog.
[UK] in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 332: Ods Bud you’d do rarely well.
[UK]Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband I i: Ods-bud! Master, you’re a wise Mon.
[UK]N. Hooke Sarah-Ad 14: H--de and Mary swore od’s Blood! / They’d make her do’t; ay they would.
[Ire]Spirit of Irish Wit 127: ‘Odds blood, my good friend,’ answered the Hibernian.
[UK]J. Lindridge Sixteen-String Jack 125: Crissy odsbuds, I’ll on with my duds .
[UK]W.H. Smyth Sailor’s Word-Bk (1991) 181: Cheating the Devil. [...] hard swearing as od’s blood.
[UK]C.S. Calverley ‘The Cock & The Bull’ Works (1901) 111: I flopp’d forth, ’sbuddikins! on my own ten toes.
[Can]R. Service ‘The Dreamer’ Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 144: Od’s blood! but he was tired.
[US] ‘Miscellaneous Notes’ in AS III:3 259: Such terms as ‘gadzooks,’ ‘zounds,’ ‘marry come up,’ and ‘Odd’s bodikins,’ were slang.
od’s fish! (also odds fish!) [lit. ‘God’s flesh!’, with overtones of the miracle of the loaves and fishes]

a general oath, one of many ways of euphemizing God.

[UK]Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: Odd’s fish, I have a peep-hole for thee.
[UK]Cibber Womans Wit IV i: Don’t it make your Nose tingle! Odsfish! he is gone away with my Mother too!
[UK]S. Centlivre Bickerstaff’s Burying Act I: Odsfish! do you think I’d leave a first Rate for a Frigate; forsake a fine Lady for a Nell?
[UK]Smollett Roderick Random (1979) 13: Odd’s fish! now my dream is out for all the world.
[Ire]K. O’Hara Midas I iv: Odsfish! th’old Trot is, more than usual, testy.
[UK]‘Peter Pindar’ ‘The Lousiad’ Works (1794) I 302: Who knows the varmine is n’t your own, odsfish!
[UK]Sporting Mag. Dec. VII 166/1: ‘Ods fish,’ cries the king, ‘has old Hyde serv’d thee so?’.
[UK]W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I i: Landlord! Waiter! Boots! oddsfish / You Job himself would vex.
[UK]I. Pocock Woodstock IV iii: Oddsfish, this must not be.
[UK] ‘Epigram’ Bentley’s Misc. May 508: But if the tale be true, odsfish! / Fanny has never tried the dish.
J.B. Buckstone Maid with the Milking Pail n.p.: Lord P. Ods fish, why this interest in poor Lady Lucy? [F&H].
[UK]‘Cuthbert Bede’ Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 2: Vavasour Verdant Green [...] allowed that monarch in his merriness to borrow his purse, with the simple IOU of ‘Odd’s fish! you shall take mine to-morrow!’.
[Aus]Examiner 14 Dec. 4/3: His constant ejaculations of ‘Ods fish’.
[Scot]Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 11 Mar. 4/1: The Earl; of Rochester is said to have exclaimed, ‘Ods fish, Lory, your chaplain must be a bishop’.
Lloyd`s Wkly Newspaper 31 May 11/4: If this is like me, Riley, then ods fish! I am an ugly fellow.
[Aus]Gadfly (Adelaide, NZ) 12 Dec. 847/1: Odds fish, [...] it is not ye fatted calfe, but ye olde castle itself which burneth.
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 21 July 10/1: Odds fish! These fellows hitherto / Wore no demeanor critical; / But, cap in hand, have saught my view / On all affairs political.
odsflesh! (also odds flesh!)

a mild euph. excl., lit. ‘God’s flesh!’.

[UK]T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia I i: Ods-flesh, where is the money for aw this?
[UK]S. Centlivre Beau’s Duel IV i: Odsflesh, had I been there, this had not happened.
[UK]Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband V i: Ods-flesh! Cousin, what! and leave a thousand Pounds a Year behind me?
[UK]Foote Lame Lover in Works (1799) II 60: Odds flesh, she’s a delicate wench!
[UK]G. Colman Yngr Heir at Law II ii: Ods flesh! — gi’ us your fist, Dick!
[UK]C. Dibdin Yngr Village Fete 12: Odds Flesh, why does the wench so follow me.
[UK]Leeeds Mercury 12 Dec. 7/2: ’Ods flesh, George Ash, come no more to Beeston.
ods heart! (also odds heart! odds heartlikins!)

a general oath, lit. ‘God’s heart!’.

[UK]Congreve Way of the World IV ii: Odds heart, where’s Tony?
[UK]S. Centlivre Wonder! III iii: Was ever man thus plagued? Odsheart, I could swallow my dagger for madness.
[UK]Smollett Peregrine Pickle (1964) 156: A sufficient man! Odds heart! [Ibid.] 360: Odds heartlikins! had I known the young woman was Ned Gauntlet’s daughter, I shou’dn’t have thrown out signal for leaving off chace.
[UK]A. Murphy Upholsterer II iii: Odsheart Man be of good chear.
[UK]G. Colman Yngr John Bull III ii: Ods, my little heart!
ods my life! (also odds life! odds my life! ods life!)

a general oath, lit. ‘God’s life!’.

[UK]Jonson Cynthia’s Revels IV i: Ods my life, how he does all to be-qualify her!
[UK]R. Brome Jovial Crew IV i: Ods my life!
[UK]A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-street (1721) 755: Mine! Od’s my Life! here she is already!
[UK]Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: Odd’s life! I’ll say no more.
[UK]Farquhar Beaux’ Strategem I i: Ods my life, sir, we’ll drink her health.
[UK]J. Gay Wife of Bath I i: Ods-my-life, a downright Miracle of a Hand.
[UK]S. Centlivre Wonder! II i: Balls, Madam! Odslife, I ask your pardon, Madam!
[UK]J. Miller Humours of Oxford IV i: Od’s my Life! ’tis impossible to have too much of a good Thing.
[UK]Smollett Roderick Random (1979) 140: Know lieutenant Bowling (said he) – odd’s my life! and that I do.
[UK]W. Toldervy Hist. of the Two Orphans II 151: Ods my life, Sir, continued he.
[UK]Sheridan Rivals (1776) I i: Hey! – Odd’s life! – Mr. Fag!
[UK]F. Burney Evelina (1861) 454: Odds my life, cried the Captain, I wish I’d been near you!
[UK]J. Poole Hamlet Travestie II ii: Od’s life, D’ye think I’m easier play’d on than a fife?
[US]R.M. Bird City Looking Glass III i: Odds my life! I think he has been guzzling porter.
[UK](con. 1715) W.H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard (1917) 84: Odds-my-life! what’s this?
[Ire] ‘Kind-Hearted Man’ Dublin Comic Songster 77: Making free with my spousey – odds life!
[UK]Newcastle Courant 23 June 6/4: That economical gentleman was sighing over what he deemed a sinful waste of money, and saying to himself, ‘Ods my life, who could imagine such a thing’.
[UK]S.O. Addy Sheffield Gloss. 162: Ods My Life, an oath.
[UK]Bucks Herald 23 Dec. 7/6: Ods my life. I think she means to tangle my eyes too.
ods nigs! (also odd’s niggers! ods niggers!) [lit. ety. unknown]

a general oath.

[UK]W. Cartwright Ordinary II iv: ’Odsnigs I guess’d so.
[UK]Smollett (trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas I 85: Odd’s niggers! this smells strong of intrigue.
[UK]Smollett Peregrine Pickle (1964) 7: Odd’s niggers! there is the commodore with his company, as sure as I live!
[WI]T. Chatterton Revenge I vi: Odsniggers, t’other draught, ’tis dev’lish heady.
[UK]‘Peter Pindar’ More Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians V 14: Odsniggers! how scarlet dyers, And gaping dames from Crutched Fryers, Slabber your tawdry misses.
[UK]Sporting Mag. Jan. XXIII 228/1: Odsniggers! I do love thee.
odso! (also oddso! ods so! od zaws! udso!)

a mild euph. excl., lit. ‘God’s oath!’.

[UK]Jonson Case Is Altered I i: Od’s so, hear, man! a pox on you!
[UK]Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour IV iv: Ods so, look here, man.
[UK]Jonson Cynthia’s Revels IV i: Ods so, was this the design you travail’d with?
[UK]Jonson Staple of News I i: Ods so, some ale and sugar for my founder!
[UK]R. Brome Damoiselle IV ii: Ods so, / There’ll be a show indeed.
[UK]J. Tatham Rump I i: Oddso they are here, I cry Mum—.
[UK]Otway Soldier’s Fortune I i: Odds so, odds so, well remembered!
[UK]Congreve Love for Love II i: Odso, let me see; Let me see the Paper.
[UK]Cibber Rival Fools I i: Odso! here comes my Father.
[UK]S. Centlivre Wonder! II i: Odso, Madam, I ask your pardon, is it to me, or to the ring, you direct your discourse, Madam?
[UK]Swift Polite Conversation 12: Ods so, I have cut my Thumb with this cursed Knife.
[UK]J. Townley High Life Below Stairs I ii: Odso, here is Mr. Freeman, my Master’s intimate Friend; he is a dry one.
[UK]Foote The Commissary 16: Odso! a qualification for a canon of Strasbourg.
[UK]Sheridan Rivals (1776) II i: Od’so! she and your father can be but just arrived before me.
[Ire]M. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals II i: Od zaws! I div’n’t ken.
[UK]Prince Hoare Prize I i: Odso! ask pardon, sir.
[UK]G. Colman Yngr Blue Devils 33: Odso! here’s the bailiff.
[UK]W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I i: But odso, here he comes!
[UK]D. Jerrold Golden Calf II i: Od’s-so! ’tis just one.
ods pity! (also ods pittikins!)

a general oath, lit. ‘God’s pity!’.

[UK]Jonson Case Is Altered III i: Od’s pity, here’s another.
[UK]Shakespeare Cymbeline IV ii: ’Ods pittikins! can it be six mile yet?
[UK]R. Brome Damoiselle I ii: Ods pity!
ods precious!

a general oath, lit. ‘God’s precious (life)!’.

[UK]Jonson Every Man Out of his Humour I i: Od’s precious, come away, man .
[UK]Jonson Alchemist I i: Dorothy, mistress Dorothy, ’Ods precious, I’ll do anything.
[UK]Fletcher Women Pleased II vi: There is no pittying of ye, od’s precious, Mistris.
[UK]R. Brome City Wit IV ii: Ods my precious —.
[UK]S. Centlivre Busy Body Act V: Ods precious, I am happier than the Great Mogul.
odzooks! (also odsooks! odzookers! oddzooks! oddzookers!)

a general oath, lit. ‘God’s hooks!’.

[UK]Congreve Love for Love V i : Odzooks, I’m a young man.
[UK]Cibber She Would and She Would Not III i: Odzooks, he has the Courage of a Cock.
[UK]Vanbrugh & Cibber Provoked Husband I i: Odszooks! [...] Ods Guts and Gizards, Madam.
[UK]Witchcraft of Love 30: Who comes here tho’, Odzooks, ’tis they.
[UK]Fielding Tom Jones (1959) 405: Odsooks! should I not be a blockhead to lend my money to I know not who. [Ibid.] 618: Odzookers! neighbour Allworthy, you dont know what it is to govern a daughter.
[UK]Oxford Jrnl 9 Feb. 3/2: Odzooks, cries a Wag, Master Haines is not right.
[Scot]Gentleman’s Bottle-Companion 2: And when the little mouse crept out, / Od’zooks it caus’d a woundy laughter.
[UK]Leeds Intelligencer 15 Aug. 3/1: Odzookers, in every station / They all Politicians would be.
[UK]Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 29: Each to the other cries, Odzooks!
[UK]Morris et al. ‘Knowing Joe’ Festival of Anacreon (1810) 51: But, odzookers! they were all so drollish.
[UK]Morn. Post (London) 25 Nov. 1/3: Quoth Jobson, while drinking his nappy with glea, / We’ve a son, Nell, odzooks, let’s send him to sea.
[UK]Hants Chron. 6 Feb. 2/5: Odzooks! [...] why sure you know / The Prophet Samuel can’t oppose the Gospel of St John.
‘Knowing Joe’ in Vocal Mag. 1 Feb. 68: Odzookers, they all were so drollish.
[UK]T. Hood ‘Tylney Hall’ Works (1862) III 247: ‘Odd zookers!’ cried Bob.
[UK]J. Labern ‘The Stunning Meat Pie’ Comic Songs 7: They finished the filling up, odd’zooks / With a ton of Kidney Taters.
[UK]Regiment 27 June 199/3: Perchance he has gone unto Pluto, / Where it’s not wet but hotte. / Odzooks he must have — .
od zounds! (also ods hartly wounds! ods nouns! ods swoons! ods wounds! odd(s)...!)

a general oath, lit. ‘God’s wounds!’.

[UK]Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor IV i: They say, ‘Od’s nouns’.
[UK] ‘The West-Countryman’s Song on a Wedding’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) III 57: Od’s hartly wounds, I’ze not to Plowing, not I Sir.
[UK] ‘Song’ in Playford Pills to Purge Melancholy I 88: Odszounds, was ever such Fortune?
[UK] ‘The West-Countryman’s Song on a Wedding’ in Playford Pills to Purge Melancholy I 295: Ods hartly wounds, Ize not to plowing, not I, Sir.
[UK] in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy I 127: Oh Mary, she swore, Odswoons y’re a Whore. [Ibid.] I 333: Odszounds, was ever such Fortune.
[UK]Progress of a Rake 19: Ods Wounds, said Dick, Blood where’s your manners.
[Ire]C. Macklin Man of the World Act II: Odzucks, Charles, you shou’d administer a torrent of adu’ation to her. [Ibid.] Act IV: Odds wounds and deeth, Plausible—ye are cleever—deevilish cleever.
[Scot]Caledonian Mercury 31 Dec. 3/3: Odds zounds! Ma’am where are you going? Don’t you perceive this is the male coach? It carries nobody but Gentlemen.
[UK]C. Dibdin ‘What thof I be a Country Clown’ in Collection of Songs I 223: As for doctors and their pill, / Odds wounds I can’t endure them.
[UK] ‘The Young King of Rome’ in Holloway & Black II (1979) 196: ‘Odd zounds,’ cries the Empress the fault is with you.
[UK]W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry II iii: I must brazen it out; I must decline now, odds nouns, though I have never declined a noun in my life.
[UK] ‘Father and I’ in Holloway & Black (1979) II 69: ‘Odds wounds!’ cried out father.
[UK] ‘Laundress & Her Ass’ in Rambler’s Flash Songster 5: Said his worship, odd zounds, ’twill cost him some pounds.
E. Peacock Ralph Skirlaugh 275: Od zounds, Howell, we’ve caught him. He’s in the kitchen now!
[UK]Norfolk Chron. 26 Mar. 2/2: Odds Zounds [...] What’s here?