"Odd's Fish!"

"Odd's Fish!"

“Odd’s Fish” was the favourite exclamation of King Charles II. It also featured in the play ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ and was said by Captain Hook (a character who based his image on King Charles) in the 1953 Disney version of 'Peter Pan’.

It is what is known as a 'Minced Oath’ a specific kind of euphemism or disguise mechanism, whereby an offending term or taboo phrase is distorted or “minced” so that it no longer offends. (We still have the idiom “not to mince one’s words” meaning to speak frankly.)

Other examples are, God’s truth becoming strewth!, by God! becoming egad or plain Gad !, Jee whiz for Jesus, Crickey for Christ, Lummey! for Lord love me!, tarnation for damnation, heck for Hell, Deuce for the Devil.

In the late sixteenth century there were increasing Puritan injunctions against the use of profanity on the stage, so that there is no doubt that the response was the great number of minced oaths. Consequently, the name of God was either distorted to gad or abbreviated to od , producing curious forms like ’od’s my will for “as God is my will” and ’od’s me for “God save me.”

The minced oaths caught on in their own right and were still used after the Restoration.

Odd’s fish is a minced oath for “God’s face.”

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