adzooks

Meanings

1. 1
   intj

   an archaic exclamation of surprise or annoyance

   Adzooks! he cried, dropping the candle in fright.

A variant of gadzooks, a minced oath of the 17th century, probably an alteration of an exclamation such as 'God's hooks' (a euphemistic reference to the nails of the Crucifixion), with the divine name disguised to avoid blasphemy.

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