Founds vs Zounds - What's the difference?
founds | zounds |
(found)
Food and lodging, board.
(find)
To begin building.
To start some type of organization or company.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
* Milton
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 verb founds
is (found).As an interjection zounds is
expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc.founds
English
Verb
(head)found
English
Etymology 1
see find.Noun
- {{quote-book
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* found footage * lost and foundEtymology 2
From (etyl) founder (French: fonder), from (etyl) fundare.Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=“… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded . …”}}
Synonyms
* (to start organization) establishAntonyms
* (to begin building) ruin * (to start organization) dissolve, abolishReferences
* Oxford Online Dictionary, found * WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton UniversityEtymology 3
From (etyl) fondre.Verb
(en verb)- Whereof to found their engines.