intg. (common).—‘God’s truth!’

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  1892.  KIPLING, Barrack-Room Ballads, ‘Cells.’

        Mad drunk and resistin’ the Guard—
’STREWTH! but I socked it them hard!

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  1897.  MARSHALL, Pomes, 7. ’Strewth! I’ll have a drink, And wish all pals a prosperous New Year.

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