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plutteranails

plutteranails interjection: an expression of surprise, shock, etc.

Interjection

  1. (archaic, minced oath) An expression of surprise, shock, etc.
    • He out his Dagger drew; / Cuts-plutter-a-nails, quoth Taffy then, / A Welchman is a Shentleman, / Come Hostess fill's the other Cann, / For Joan's Ale, &c.1719, Thomas d’Urfey, compiler, Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive; […], volume V, London: […] W. Pearson, for J[acob] Tonson, […], published 19th century, →OCLC, page 64

Origin of plutteranails

A minced pronunciation of "blood and nails".

Questions about plutteranails

What does plutteranails mean?
Plutteranails means an expression of surprise, shock, etc.
What part of speech is plutteranails?
Plutteranails is an interjection.

Words near plutteranails in the dictionary

  1. plutophile
  2. plutophiles
  3. plutophobia
  4. plutophobic
  5. plutos
  6. plutteranails
  7. Plutus
  8. Plutynski
  9. Plutynskis
  10. pluvial
  11. pluvials

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