18 August 2015

Gadzooks

[gad-zooks]

interjection, Archaic.

1. (used as a mild oath.)

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Also, Odzooks, Odzookers.

Origin of Gadzooks
1645-1655; perhaps representing God’s hooks (i.e., the nails of Christ’s Cross); cf. Gad

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Examples from the Web for Gadzooks

Historical Examples

Well, this Mr. Summerfield is a brave Fellow, Gadzooks he is.
The City Bride (1696)
Joseph Harris

Gadzooks, Jenny, will I never get sense or liberality into your head?
The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector
William Carleton

The poor fish claps his hand to his forehead and cries ‘ Gadzooks !
The Adventures of Sally
P. G. Wodehouse

Today’s quote

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

– Carl Bard

On this day

18 August – Vietnam Veterans’ Day. The day was originally Long Tan Day, which commemorated the anniversary of the Australian Army’s victory in the Battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam War on this day in 1966. During the battle, 108 Australian and New Zealand soldiers fought against 2,000 North Vietnamese and Viet-Cong troops. Eighteen Australian and New Zealand soldiers were killed and 24 wounded, while there were hundreds of North Vietnamese and Viet-Cong deaths.

18 August 1931 – the flooded Yangtze River, China, peaks in what becomes the worst natural disaster of the 20th century, killing up to 3.7 million people.

18 August 1948 – Australia’s greatest cricketer, Sir Donald Bradman, plays his last game of test cricket. It was played at the Oval in Britain against the English cricket team. Bradman was bowled for a duck, which left him 4 runs short of a career average of 100 runs. Bradman’s first test was in 1928. Over his 20 year test career, he played 52 tests, scored 6,996 runs, with a top score of 334 and an average of 99.94. Throughout his first-grade career, he played 234 games, scored 28,067 runs, with a top score of 452 not out and an average of 95.14.