int. Obs. or arch. exc. dial. Also 7 zwookers. [Short for gadswookers (GAD sb.5 3), GODSOOKERS.] = next.
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.’
1922. C. D. Fraser, M’lord o’ the White Road, xiii. 137. How often have I told you not to say zookers to me?
