Bounds vs Zounds - What's the difference?
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Expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc.
* 'Zounds , a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! — , "Romeo and Juliet", 1597
* Bounds, mounds, lounds, founds, kounds, downds, rounds, pounds, zounds ! — hounds — ha! hounds — I have it. — , "The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands", 1870
* "Zounds! " he exclaimed. "What the dickens is that?" — , "Bob Strong's Holidays", 1900
As a noun bounds
is .As a verb bounds
is (bound).As an interjection zounds is
expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc.bounds
English
Noun
(head)citation, passage=“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]”}}