Gadzooks
interjection
(used as a mild oath.)
Gadzooks
American
[gad-zooks]
/ ˌgædˈzuks /
Also
Odzookers.
interjection
Archaic.
gadzooks
British
/ ɡædˈzuːks /
interjection
Etymology
Origin of Gadzooks
1645–55; perhaps representing God's hooks (i.e., the nails of Christ's Cross); cf. Gad
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Listening to "Gadzooks" feels like you're running through a fun house.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2021
Gadzooks, stay 'way from this mess if your mama wants to see you toe the straight and narrow line to normality.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2012
Week-Ending Columnist Hedda Hopper, on encountering lei-bearing greeters at Honolulu's airfield: "Gadzooks, what a reception for an old goat!"
From Time Magazine Archive
A spokesperson for Gadzooks says the offending apparel has already been cleared from the shelves.
From Time Magazine Archive
I do not have the T-shirts that she likes, because they are from a store called Gadzooks, which is in the mall of new clothes.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
Readers wary of the plush language of the "gadzooks, hussy!" school may be suspicious of the special idiom of Bring Larks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The reader may well say "gadzooks" about the first volume of the life of Churchill by his son Randolph, which goes back even farther.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Why, gadzooks, we may have him in a corner before the day is out, Mr. Bonamy," he continued.
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
Black velvet mask and gadzooks, madam—I must certainly tell Edith.
From The Range Dwellers by B. M. Bower
Is this fad of yours madness?—which would be quite to your credit,—for gadzooks, I like a lunatic!
From The Shape of Fear by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
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