'sfoot

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -en, -ÊŠt

Alternative forms

• fut

Origin

A style of oath appearing in Jacobean drama in the 17th century.

Full definition of 'sfoot

Interjection

1. (obsolete) A contraction of "God's foot"; an oath.
• 1604-1616. Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore:Again, again, as God judge me: ’sfoot, cuz, they stand thrumming here with me all day, and yet I get nothing.’Sfoot, my wit bleeds for’t, methinks.
• 1814. Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review, Page 234:“’Sfoot,” Mr. Editor, — what exquisite nonsense hast thou here suffered to pass wholly unnoticed?

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