zounds!..とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /zuːndz/, /zaʊndz/
• 韻: -uːndz, -aʊndz

間投詞

zounds

1. (chiefly dated, minced oath) Expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death!

   • 1870, R.M. Ballantyne, The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands:

     Bounds, mounds, lounds, founds, kounds, downds, rounds, pounds, zounds! — hounds — ha! hounds — I have it.

   • 1900, J.C. Hutcheson, Bob Strong's Holidays:

     "Zounds!" he exclaimed. "What the dickens is that?"

別の表記

• 'zounds

同意語

• gadswoons
• 'swounds
• 'dswounds
• zooterkins