Odzooks

[ od-zooks, -zooks ]

interjection

1. Gadzooks.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Odzooks¹

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

However, after sitting patiently for an hour, as if on a monument, I could not succeed in catching the eye of any passing fish, and so, severely disheartened by my ill-luck, I was strolling on, shouldering my rod, when—odzooks! whom should I encounter but Mister Bagshot and a party of friends, who were watching his keepers capture salmons from a boat by means of a large net, a far more practical and effectual method than the cumbersome and unreliable device of a meretricious fly with a very visible hook!

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Who believes me shall behold The Little Girl, tricked out with ringolet, Or fringe, or pompadour, or what you will, Switch, bang, rat, puff—odzooks, man!

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Odzooks, it matters not a whit—     They all are good to use!

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Odzooks, it matters not a whit—   They all are good to use!

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Odzooks! my wide-extended realm, Knows not a name so glorious as Tom Thumb.

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