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
Random Words:
1.
One who randomly posts on an Internet Forum Thread without knowing the Thread subject.
Derivation - Duck Nugget are two random words pl..
1.
A kingdom in Cyprus having a city-state like structure. If indeed the rebegining of humanity is sourced back to Noa, Aradhippou is where..
1.
It's nothing personal just business. Commonly said in response when someone tries to extremely haggle with the price of something o..
