thunder! excl.
a euph. for hell! excl. or damn! excl.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Tatler No. 33: Thunder, Furies, and Damnation! I’ll cut your Ears of [sic] you Fellow. | |
| Wife of Bath (rev. edn) V iii: Gone! escap’d! Plague, thunder and combustion! | |
| Ninth Statue II ii: Och, thunder! | |
| Leicester Jrnl 6 Mar. 4/4: Thunder an’ ages! An’ what’s that? | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Westward Ho! II 61: O thunder! a ring! | |
| Odd Fellow 4 May 4/1: Oh! thunder an ages, thinks I. | |
| Era (London) 21 Nov. 2/1: ‘Thunder and ages!’ exclaimed Mick. | |
| Stray Subjects (1848) 57: -’od rot him! Oh – th-thunder! | |
| Biglow Papers (1880) 58: Here we stan’ on the Constitution, by thunder! | |
| G’hals of N.Y. 40: ‘Thunder!’ exclaimed the youth [...] ‘Wot am I to do then?’. | |
| Moby Dick (1907) 114: Why thunder alive, man, his stern was stuck full of marlin-spikes. | |
| Life in the Saddle 75: Thunder, what is that! | |
| Kendal Mercury 28 Apr. 4/2: ‘Och, thunder and ages,’ shouted Terry. | |
| Armagh Guardian 26 Nov. 7/1: By thunder, he’s the coolest card, just about! | |
| Bushrangers 86: Your diamonds are out of the country long before this. [...] Thunder! it makes me feel like a poor man every time I think of the matter. | |
| Big Bonanza (1947) 57: ‘Skunk, by thunder!’ howled all the rest in chorus. | |
| Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1887) 70: O, thunder, didn’t Pa tell you about the comet exploding and burning us all? | |
| Admiral Guinea I viii: You? Reading, by thunder! | |
 | Buffalo Bill 14: ‘Thundr and whip-stalks, but you hit hard!’. | |
| Whitstable Times 18 Jan. 4/1: Thunder and darnation! | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Truth (Sydney) 11 Feb. 7/1: By thunder, I say, Landlord, where the Dickens is my horse? | |
| Red Badge of Courage (1964) 21: ‘Thunder!’ said the youth. | |
| Hebrew Yarns and Dialect Humor 81/1: One tells you a tale you can’t ‘swaller,’ / He tells you ‘by thunder,’ ’tis true. | |
| Gem 7 Oct. 13: Thunder! Who’s that! | |
| Senior 44: Wainwright. Thunder, what a lot of time we’ve wasted. | |
| Marvel 3 July 8: Thunder! Put the key in the lock first! [Ibid.] 12: By thunder, here it is! | |
| Babbitt (1974) 120: By thunder, I will, too. | |
| Busman’s Honeymoon (1974) 109: Skipped, by thunder! | |
| Sudden Takes the Trail 135: The marshal, by thunder! |
In exclamations
a general excl. of fury, surprise, indignation etc .
| Roderick Random (1979) 48: Blood and thunder! where’s my sword? | |
| Peregrine Pickle (1964) 379: Blood and thunder! meaning me, Sir? | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | ‘Teague’ Dublin Comic Songster 179: Oh, blood and thunder! how we’ll curse and swear. |
see separate entry.
(Irish) a mild excl.
| Oxonian in Town I ii: Tunder [sic] and oons! what’s the matter now, honey? | |
| 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! | |
| Sporting Mag. Apr. XX 55/2: Why oons and tunder, how can I kill a man that never dies. | |
| ‘Paddy Blake’s Echo’ in Bentley’s Misc. Feb. 187: Oh! tundher-a-nouns! | |
| ‘Paddy Miles’s Boy’ in Irish Songster 13: Thunder and ounds, here’s the divil coming. | |
| (ed.) ‘Irish Compliments’ in World of Wit and Humour 208/1: The’'ll [i.e. game birds] pray never to see your honour agin on this side of tho country." Shot 3rd (birds all off again)—Thunder an’ ouns! but they’ve cotched it! | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | ‘Paddy Blake’s Echo’ in Laughing Songster 158: Oh! tundher-a-nouns! |
a general excl. of fury, surprise, indignation etc.
| John Bull I i: Tunder and turf! didn’t yourself advise me to take this public house? | |
| Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome I 30: ‘Thunder and turf! are those your tricks?’ said Teague. | |
| ‘Thinks I To Myself, Thinks I’ Universal Songster I 25/2: Thunder and turf! can’t you be after believing the man? | |
| ‘The Hedge School’ in Traits and Stories of Irish Peasantry I (1868) 292: Tundher-an’-turf! is there no wather to be had? | |
| Comic Almanack Aug. 25: ‘Och! thunder and praties!’ said he. | |
| True Colonist 17 Apr. 7/1: ‘Tunder and turf, man alive I if you don't understand, me, can’t you send me the man I saw when I was here last?’. | |
| Sixteen-String Jack 161: Thunder and turf! Death and the devil! | |
| Huddersfield Chron. 2 Aug. 3/3: ‘Thunder and turf,’ says he. | |
| ‘Rafferty’s Party’ in Donnybrook-Fair Comic Songster 51: Blood and thunder and turf! | |
| Knocknagow 212: ‘Tundher an’ turf, Mrs. Nugent,’ exclaimed Mat Donovan. | |
| Dundee Wkly News 7 Dec. 3/4: ‘Och, thunder and praties!’ he said. |