Gadzooks

American  

[gad-zooks] / ˌgædˈzuks /

Also Odzookers.

interjection

Archaic.

1. (used as a mild oath.)

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gadzooks British  

/ ɡædˈzuːks /

interjection

1. archaic a mild oath

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Etymology

Origin of Gadzooks

1645–55; perhaps representing God's hooks (i.e., the nails of Christ's Cross); Gad

Example Sentences

She’s just as comfortable with language that dates from the ’50s, peppering her speech with words like “gadzooks” and “egad.”

From New York Times

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 Literature

Choosing to forgive strange smells or choosing that Gadzooks is not the only place that boyfriends can shop.

From Literature

He wrote his new album “Gadzooks Vol. 1,” for instance, while in Albuquerque shooting “Finch,” the upcoming post-apocalyptic drama in which he stars alongside Tom Hanks as the android creation of Hanks’s inventor character.

From Washington Post

Jones video-chats with The Post in late August from outside a house he is renting in Los Angeles, where he is already in the midst of finishing a follow-up to “Gadzooks,” released Friday by Sacred Bones.

From Washington Post