'swounds

What is 'swounds?

1.

A sort of abbreviative censorship (minced oath) of "God's wounds", a phrase used in cursing in shakespearean times.

It is to that phrase as "darn" is to "damn", or "fudge" to "fuck".

"'Swounds, I should take it, for it cannot be but I am pidgeon-liver'd and lack gall to make oppression bitter, or ere this I should ha' fatted all the region kites with this slave's offal." -Hamlet, Act II, scene 2, lines 580-584

See zounds, minced oath, shakespeare

Random Words:

Fartacular

1. A fart that is so heinous it results in something such as vomiting or tears. Man, Sheila ripped a fartacular one yesterday. See fartac..

2 Faced

1. A generally nasty term to describe someone who is nice to a person, perhaps a friend and then gives them abuse without that person knowi..

Oousting

1. Lurking on freshman girls who have to be no less than 3 years younger than the offending party. Derek's repeated late night journe..

'swounds Edit Meaning

1.

Random Words:

'swounds