Meanings
- not comparableI swear
By God's teeth, I have been burned by this living devil so many times!
2000, Stephen Thomas Knight, Thomas H. Ohlgren, Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales, TEAMS, →ISBN, page 6831 more example
By God's teeth, I will not grant them liberties which will make me a slave!
1850, William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Carefully Collated and Compared with the Editions of Halliwell, Knight, Collier, and Others, with Historical and Critical Introductions and Notes to Each Play, and a Life of the Great Dramatist, Volume 1, Go W. Borland & Company, page 2
- An exclamation of surprise or amazement.
Once free his immediate reaction was to swear angrily, 'By God's teeth! I've been disgraced. I could swear I've eaten the Devil himself!'
1998, Thomas H. Ohlgren, Medieval Outlaws: Ten Tales in Modern English, Sutton, →ISBN, page 91Synonyms: God's teeth, adzooks, ay, caramba, mirabile dictu, chihuahua, begorra, bleeding heck
Synonyms & antonyms
interjectionAn exclamation of surprise or amazement.
Origin
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