Odzooks
Americaninterjection
Etymology
Origin of Odzooks
First recorded in 1685–95
Example Sentences
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However, after sitting patiently for an hour, as if on a monument, I could not succeed in catching the eye of any passing fish, and so, severely disheartened by my ill-luck, I was strolling on, shouldering my rod, when—odzooks! whom should I encounter but Mister Bagshot and a party of friends, who were watching his keepers capture salmons from a boat by means of a large net, a far more practical and effectual method than the cumbersome and unreliable device of a meretricious fly with a very visible hook!
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Who believes me shall behold The Little Girl, tricked out with ringolet, Or fringe, or pompadour, or what you will, Switch, bang, rat, puff—odzooks, man!
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Odzooks, it matters not a whit— They all are good to use!
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Odzooks, it matters not a whit— They all are good to use!
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Odzooks! my wide-extended realm, Knows not a name so glorious as Tom Thumb.
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