Zookers, int. Obs. or arch. exc. dial.
(ˈzʊkəz)
Also 7 zwookers.
[Short for gadswookers (Gad n.5 3), Godsookers.]
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| 1620 Shelton Quix. ii. xxv. 166 Zwookers (quoth Sancho) Ile not giue a farthing to know what is past. 1631 Massinger Emperor East iv. i, Zookers had I one of you zingle with this twigge, I would so veeze you! 1753 Scots Mag. Oct. 491/1, I had proceeded by Fegs, 'Faith, Pox, Plague, 'pon my life, 'pon my soul, Rat it, and Zookers, to Zauns, and the divill. 1761 A. Murphy Way to keep Him v. i. (1765) 101 Zookers, that money—Oh! I am going to blab—. a 1814 Sixteen & Sixty ii. ii. in New Brit. Theatre IV. 387 Zookers! if measter Bore'em were to pop in! 1854 Ainsworth Flitch of Bacon iv, ‘I've..Seen him make love to another woman.’ ‘To Mrs. Nettlebed?’ ‘Zookers! no.’ |