'Sbloodn.
/zblʌd/ Obsolete exc. archaic.
= God's blood! at blood n. 6, used as an oath or asseveration.
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(by) Gog's arms, blood, body?1520
'Sblood1598
od's blood1773
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 73 Zbloud I am as melancholy as a gyb Cat. View more context for this quotation
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 367 S'bloud.
1606 G. Chapman Gentleman Vsher i. sig. A2 Slud Aunt, what if my dreame had beene true.
1606 G. Chapman Gentleman Vsher ii. sig. Cv Slood me thinks a man Should not of meere necessitie be an Asse.
1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe v. sig. I4v Sblood what is learning? An artificiall cobwebbe to catch flies.
1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. v. sig. I4 Sloud tis all false.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. viii. 10 'Sblud, an arrant Traytor. View more context for this quotation
1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) iv. iii, in Wks. I. 223 S'lud, I neuer saw him till this morning.
1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) iv. iii, in Wks. I. 228 S'lood, what haue you to doe?
1620 I. C. Two Merry Milke-maids iv. iii. sig. M2 Zbloud I heard otherwise.
1715 J. Vanbrugh tr. F. C. Dancourt Country House ii. 21 A parcel of Fellows swear they'll have our Venison, and s'blead I swear they shall have none on't.
1737 H. Fielding Hist. Reg. 1736 i. 6 'Sblood, Sir, would it be in the Character of a Politician to make him a Conjurer?
1737 R. Drury Rival Milliners ii. xii S'blud and Thunder, Give me the Settlement again.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvii. iii. 101 Slud! then..I tell you I have Power, and I will fulfil it.
1848 G. H. Boker Calaynos v. ii, in Poems (1857) I. 102 'Sblood! but they'd make you caper!
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