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zut.

damn, shoot, dang, cripes, rats, "dash it!", "hang it all!"

3 characters1 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

intj/zyt/
  1. damn, shoot, dang, cripes, rats, "dash it!", "hang it all!"

Where this word comes from

From 1813. Origin disputed:. * Combination of zest and flûte ; * Formed from a linking z and ut/hut, attested 1791: :* Allons, allons, hut! pas de ça:Le Véritable P. Duchesne f., Grand compliment :* qu'il aille à Charenton, et hut. Martainville, Une Demi-heure de cabaret, 1804 :* Sais-tu la musique ? eh bien ut. Ut, zut may be a corruption of the Latin ut, a word used in typographers' jargon: Ut […] C'est le premier mot du souhait que se faisoient en buvant les anciens imprimeurs […] : Ut tibi prosit meri potio (« Que grand bien vous fasse ce bon vin pur »). Par abréviation l'on se contenta ensuite du mot ut. Gattel, 1797 * From an older word, zot, which is found in diablezot * It may be purely onomatopoeic, as pft, pfuit; see zou

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