plutteranails
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A minced pronunciation of "blood and nails".[1]
Interjection
[edit]plutteranails
- (archaic, minced oath) An expression of surprise, shock, etc.
- 1719, Thomas d’Urfey, compiler, Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive; […], volume V, London: […] W. Pearson, for J[acob] Tonson, […], published 19th century, →OCLC, page 64:
- He out his Dagger drew; / Cuts-plutter-a-nails, quoth Taffy then, / A Welchman is a Shentleman, / Come Hostess fill's the other Cann, / For Joan's Ale, &c.
References
[edit]- ^ “plutteranails, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
