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Zounds vs Pounds - What's the difference?

zounds | pounds |

As an interjection zounds

is expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc.

As a noun pounds is

.

As a verb pounds is

(pound).

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

    • pounds

    English

    Noun

    (head) (p)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (pound)

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