Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A corruption or abbreviation of
God's wounds : used as a sort of oath or confirmation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection Obs. or Archaic An exclamation contracted from
God's wounds ; -- used as an oath.
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