So am I. Let's bring back some of the swear words used in the good old days.
- Bloody Nora!
Consarn It!
Zooterkins!
Sard!
Gadzooks!
Zounds!
Waesucks!
Gadsbudlikins!
Potzblitz!
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Swear Words
Are you tire of all the f**king sh*t going on in today's world?
So am I. Let's bring back some of the swear words used in the good old days.
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So am I. Let's bring back some of the swear words used in the good old days.
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Yes please..
Codswallop
giving someone a 'kick up the corncake'
Randy scouse git
a bunch of fives or a knuckle sandwich...
Codswallop
giving someone a 'kick up the corncake'
Randy scouse git
a bunch of fives or a knuckle sandwich...
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I like the sound of Gadzooks!
I have no idea about its origins.
I have no idea about its origins.
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Meaning
An exclamation - a euphemistic shortening of God's hooks (the nails on the cross).
Origin
As the meaning suggests, this was originally two words - gad's zooks, which was sometimes hyphenated and now almost always spelled as a single word.
Gad was a common term used to avoid speaking the name of God - an example of a minced oath. That taboo, although still influential amongst the devout, is now much weaker and the use of gad has diminished as a consequence. In the 17th century we would have had a choice of such 'gad' words - gadsbobs, gadsbodikins, gadsbud, gadsbudlikins, gadslid, gadsniggers, gadsnigs, gadsnouns, gadsokers, gadsookers, gadsprecious, gadswookers, gadswoons - gad pretty much anything you like. These share a format with many reduplications - many of which also take an existing word and add a secondary made-up word for emphasis.
The only gad... form to have survived is gadzooks. That is still used but it has gone the same way as prithee and odd's bodkins, that is, stagey allusions to history that are wheeled out for comic effect - Gadzooks Mrs Miggins, bring me more veal pies. Use of gad with its original intent may have almost disappeared but such obvious replacements of words with similar-sounding invented words that have less risk of offending is still with us - feck being a recent example.
Gad began life in the early 17th century, for example:
Robert Armin's A nest of ninnies, 1608 - "And, gad, she will." and Beaumont & Fletcher's The knight of the burning pestle, 1609 - "By gad, if any of them all blow wind in the tail on him, I'll be hanged."
Gadzooks soon spawned a shortened form of its own - zooks. This is first recorded in Thomas Heywood's The late Lancashire witches, 1634 - "Zookes thou art so brave a fellow that I will stick to thee."
Now we know...God's hooks..
An exclamation - a euphemistic shortening of God's hooks (the nails on the cross).
Origin
As the meaning suggests, this was originally two words - gad's zooks, which was sometimes hyphenated and now almost always spelled as a single word.
Gad was a common term used to avoid speaking the name of God - an example of a minced oath. That taboo, although still influential amongst the devout, is now much weaker and the use of gad has diminished as a consequence. In the 17th century we would have had a choice of such 'gad' words - gadsbobs, gadsbodikins, gadsbud, gadsbudlikins, gadslid, gadsniggers, gadsnigs, gadsnouns, gadsokers, gadsookers, gadsprecious, gadswookers, gadswoons - gad pretty much anything you like. These share a format with many reduplications - many of which also take an existing word and add a secondary made-up word for emphasis.
The only gad... form to have survived is gadzooks. That is still used but it has gone the same way as prithee and odd's bodkins, that is, stagey allusions to history that are wheeled out for comic effect - Gadzooks Mrs Miggins, bring me more veal pies. Use of gad with its original intent may have almost disappeared but such obvious replacements of words with similar-sounding invented words that have less risk of offending is still with us - feck being a recent example.
Gad began life in the early 17th century, for example:
Robert Armin's A nest of ninnies, 1608 - "And, gad, she will." and Beaumont & Fletcher's The knight of the burning pestle, 1609 - "By gad, if any of them all blow wind in the tail on him, I'll be hanged."
Gadzooks soon spawned a shortened form of its own - zooks. This is first recorded in Thomas Heywood's The late Lancashire witches, 1634 - "Zookes thou art so brave a fellow that I will stick to thee."
Now we know...God's hooks..
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That was a brilliant etymology. Thank you for going through the trouble, Tom
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you are welcome me old mucker!
that's a London cockney phrase and nothing disrespectful!
that's a London cockney phrase and nothing disrespectful!
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I'm not your good man!
Oh 'scuse me , that was a wonderful line from the Mel Brooks film 'The Producers'
It's my last night tonight and I'm back on days from Monday...I miss Icey...I hope she is ok..xxxx
Oh 'scuse me , that was a wonderful line from the Mel Brooks film 'The Producers'
It's my last night tonight and I'm back on days from Monday...I miss Icey...I hope she is ok..xxxx
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Hopefully we will continue to see you grace our forums when you switch shifts. I worry about Icey and am not certain how that situation will turn out. 
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I say a prayer for her everyday...x
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Given the very limited number of active members, Icey's absence makes a tremendous impact on what happens here. She is a strong woman and has a positive attitude. I'm certain both of those qualities will be of help to her.
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COME ON ICEY WE LOVE YOU!!!
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It's been pretty quiet around here without her.
Are you back to working these days with the sun above the horizon
Are you back to working these days with the sun above the horizon