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A comment on Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems. Parent comment

Re:Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems by djur on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @04:01PM (#31912305)
"Gadzooks" is similarly a corruption of "God's hooks", referring to the nails on the cross. "(Cor) blimey" = "God blind me", "strewth" = "God's truth", and so on. Lots of garbled/minced profanities of this nature.
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Re:Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems by AlbertCory on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @06:50PM (#31914115)
I'd never heard that about Gadzooks.

It was probably beyond the pale to say "Jesus Christ!" back then like we do now.

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