gadzooks

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 114 words | Copyright

gadzooks (arch.) mild expletive. XVII. perh. for God's hooks, i.e. God's nails, sc. of Christ crucified; see GAD2.

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