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Wounds vs Zounds - What's the difference?

wounds | zounds |

As a noun wounds

is .

As a verb wounds

is (wound).

As an interjection zounds is

expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc.

wounds

English

Noun

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * lick one's wounds

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wound)

    • Anagrams

    *

    zounds

    English

    Alternative forms

    * 'zounds * zooterkins

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • 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