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strewth!; struth!
used as an oath UK, 1892 A shortening of “God’s truth!”.- Gov’ struth, I thought this was a temperance hotel! — Norman Lindsay, Comic Art of Norman Lindsay, p. 115, 1905
- “Strewth!” was the reply, “it was dead lively!” — The Australian Magazine, 1 November 1908
- STRUTH–An exclamation. — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
- — J.E. MacDonnell, Don’t Gimme the Ships, p. 50, 1960
- “Struth–that was bloody close!” — W.R. Bennett, Target Turin, p. 47, 1962
- — John Wynnum, Jiggin’ in the Riggin’, p. 12, 1965
- Struth, what’s ’e doin’ ’ere? — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 13, 1982
- Struth, I should get a job writing Home and Away. — Tracks, p. 131, October 1992
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