See zounds on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Minced form of God's wounds, with reference to the wounds from Christ's crucifixion. Compare strewth, blimey, gadzooks, 'sblood, crikey.",
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"text": "'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death!",
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"ref": "1870, R.M. Ballantyne, The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands:",
"text": "Bounds, mounds, lounds, founds, kounds, downds, rounds, pounds, zounds! — hounds — ha! hounds — I have it.",
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"ref": "1900, J.C. Hutcheson, Bob Strong's Holidays:",
"text": "\"Zounds!\" he exclaimed. \"What the dickens is that?\"",
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"(chiefly dated, minced oath) Expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc."
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"word": "zooterkins"
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