'sdeath
Americaninterjection
Etymology
Origin of 'sdeath
Euphemistic shortening of God's death; 's 3
Example Sentences
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In drat, formerly 'od rot, zounds for God's wounds, 'sdeath, odsbodikins, etc., there is probably a deliberate avoidance of profanity.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
For that matter, I'd have noticed it when I looked back at the Ghostgirls—if it worked as Sid claimed, and he said he had never seen it in operation, just read in the manual—oh, 'sdeath!
From The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
Sure I was born with budding antlers like a young satyr, or a citizen's child, 'sdeath, to be out-witted, to be out-jilted, out-matrimonied.
From The Way of the World by William Congreve
"But 'sdeath, Tim, I thought not to see you here!"
From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton
Because your brother is the corpulent duke, That is, the great duke, 'sdeath, I shall not shortly Racket away five hundred crowns at tennis, But it shall rest 'pon record!
From The White Devil by John Webster
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