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Zounds vs Zowie - What's the difference?

zounds | zowie |

As interjections the difference between zounds and zowie

is that zounds is expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc while zowie is (us|slang) an indication of astonishment or admiration.

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

    • zowie

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (US, slang) An indication of astonishment or admiration.

    • Synonyms

    * wow English interjections