Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
zounds .
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Whilst personally uncertain about DC and the rest of the "oons" I think can say: -
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(REE-oons) They are characterized by cat-like ears, bushy tails, and a star-mark on their foreheads.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Trollitrade’s Review Forum 2009
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But, as "Midnite Movies" go, even the pirattiest among you must admit, these are some pretty dull double-oons.
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But, as "Midnite Movies" go, even the pirattiest among you must admit, these are some pretty dull double-oons.
Archive 2006-06-04 2006
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Blood and oons, answered Breton, I was there, and can prove it easily; nay, even where you, my lord, dared not have been.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Blood and oons, answered Breton, I was there, and can prove it easily; nay, even where you, my lord, dared not have been.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The bluff dragoons swore blood and oons they'd mak 'the rebels run man
Tranent Muir 1997
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"Splutter and oons!" cried the man, interrupting me, "who be you a-calling swab, I'd like to know!"
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang
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Od's 'oons, I drank deep last night, and yet it is clear that I could not have drunk enough, for I was as dry as a concordance when I awoke.'
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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"O! blur 'an' oons, boys, if here isn't Mr. Power!"
Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. Tyrone Power 1818
minerva commented on the word oons
Wounds, i.e. God's wounds (see also Zounds):
Sheridan, The School for Scandal:
"Oons, haven’t you got enough of them?"
October 9, 2007