Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as zounds.
Examples
“Whilst personally uncertain about DC and the rest of the "oons" I think can say: -”
“(REE-oons) They are characterized by cat-like ears, bushy tails, and a star-mark on their foreheads.”
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“But, as "Midnite Movies" go, even the pirattiest among you must admit, these are some pretty dull double-oons.”
“Blood and oons, answered Breton, I was there, and can prove it easily; nay, even where you, my lord, dared not have been.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“The bluff dragoons swore blood and oons they'd mak 'the rebels run man”
“Splutter and oons!" cried the man, interrupting me, "who be you a-calling swab, I'd like to know!”
“Od's 'oons, I drank deep last night, and yet it is clear that I could not have drunk enough, for I was as dry as a concordance when I awoke.”
“O! blur 'an' oons, boys, if here isn't Mr. Power!”
Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
“An I do not turn rebel when thou art king' -- oons!”
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
“Every prince of the house of Bhamenee, who possessed this throne, made a point of adding to it some rich stones; so that when in the reign of Sultan Mamood it was taken to pieces to remove some of the jewels to be set in vases and cups, the jewellers valued it at one corore of oons (nearly four millions sterling).”
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes
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minerva Wounds, i.e. God's wounds (see also Zounds):
Sheridan, The School for Scandal:
"Oons, haven’t you got enough of them?" Oct 9, 2007