gadzooks

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In a novel twist, Samsung held off announcing its new swag until the show had actually opened -- gadzooks!

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  1. interjection Used as a mild or ironic oath: "Gadzooks! Is there a panic detector, akin to a smoke detector, that sniffs anxiety in the air?” (George F. Will).

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  • Exclamations like "gadzooks," "great jehosaphat," "holy cow," "son of a gun," "wahoo,"
  • In a novel twist, Samsung held off announcing its new swag until the show had actually opened -- gadzooks! —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Just below them, put Minnesota (gadzooks, how long has it been since you could put the Gophers ahead of anybody in this conference?) and ... yeesh.
  • "Black velvet mask and gadzooks, madam--I must certainly tell Edith. —  The Range Dwellers
  • Why Stoddard, and not I From yonder wall looks Thackeray upon his poet friend, And underneath the genial face appear the lines he penned; And here, gadzooks, ben honge ye prynte of marvaillous renowne Yt shameth Chaucers gallaunt knyghtes in Canterbury towne; And still more books and pictures. —  Songs and Other Verse
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  1. Perhaps alteration of God's hooks, the nails of the crucifixion of Christ.

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  1. apparently a corruption of God's (that is, Christ's) hooks, with reference to the nails with which Christ was fixed to the cross, and which often appear in early oaths.
 

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