单词 | och |
释义 | ochint. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English. 1. Originally: expressing sorrow or regret. Later: expressing annoyed dismissal or disregard, exasperation, etc. och how!: ‘alas!’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > exclamation of wonder [interjection] ahaa1400 ocha1522 heydaya1529 ah1538 ah me!a1547 fore me!a1547 o me!a1547 gossea1556 ay me!1591 o (also oh) rare!1596 law1598 strangec1670 lack-a-day1695 stap my vitals1697 alackaday1705 prodigious1707 my word1722 (by) golly1743 gosh1757 Dear me!1805 Madre de Dios1815 Great Jove!1819 I snum1825 crikey1826 my eye1826 crackey1830 snakes1839 Great Scott1852 holy mackerel!1855 whoops1870 this beats my grandmother1883 wow1892 great balls of fire1893 oo-er1909 zowiec1913 crimes1929 yowa1943 wowee1963 Madre mia!1964 yikes1971 whee1978 chingas1984 the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > exclamation of regret [interjection] alack1447 ah1509 ocha1522 alack the day1565 ay me!1591 Ichabod1702 deary me!1785 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [interjection] > specific cry of grief woeeOE wellawayeOE weilac1000 wellawayOE wellaOE woe is meOE wummec1175 wia1200 outa1225 alas?c1225 walec1275 ac1300 whilec1402 ochonea1425 wellesay?1440 wannowec1450 helas1484 ah1509 ocha1522 ah me!a1547 wougha1556 eh1569 welladay1570 how1575 wellanear1581 ay me!1591 lasa1593 wella, welladay1601 good lack!1638 oime1660 pillaloo1663 wellanearing1683 lack-a-day1695 wasteheart1695 walya1724 lackadaisy1748 ochree1748 waesucks1773 well-a-winsa1774 ullagone1819 wirra1825 mavrone1827 wirrasthru1827 ototoi1877 wurra1898 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. xii. 62 Och! [a1527 Elphinstoun Hoch, a1584 Ruthven Ocht] was this it thou fenȝeit the to do? 1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. d iii Och, there is nether duke ne barone..But they are constrayned to croutche, Before this butcherly sloutche. 1567 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 4 His sory sang was oche and wallaway! 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 82 God Iuppiter, ogh lord: Quod she, shal hee scape thus? c1600 in G. Stevenson Poems A. Montgomerie (1910) 1 Och, luif, in langour heir I ly. 1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. ii Och! the delicate creature!—she's the very moral of my own honey. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 161 But Och! that night, amang the shaws, She gat a fearfu' settlin! 1810 Mrs. S. Green Romance Readers & Romance Writers I. 151–3 Why how in the name of St. Patrick, came you here, miss? said he, and och, as sure as I'm my own mother's son, if you have not killed the titman peg. 1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xiv. 140 But, och how! this was the last happy summer that we had for many a year in the parish. 1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 338 Och! lausy me! What's in the taking now, dearie? 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iii. 184 He said Och, it must be the whisky speaking. 1965 S. T. Ollivier Petticoat Farm ii. 26 ‘Och, we're not having visitors tonight surely?’ he asked plaintively. 1990 N. Hill Death grows on You (1992) ii. 23 ‘Did they get the men who planted the bomb?’ ‘Och, they lifted a few fellows, you know the way they do.’ 2. As an intensifier in och aye: ‘oh yes’. Also in representations of Scottish speech, esp. in och aye the noo. ΚΠ 1876 W. Murdoch Discursory Ruminations v. 75 Och! aye, she's just a wisdom of a dearie. And speakit Gælic she was never weary. 1912 St. J. G. Ervine Magnanimous Lover 13 It's a queer thing when you come to think it over; but there it is. Och, aye! human beings is a funny lot, William, they are that. 1939 Times 7 Jan. 9/1 (advt.) Och aye! It's Angus MacDougall, Coaxing his cold Awa' doon the plougall. 1959 Times 5 Nov. 3/1 Och aye. It was bonny fitba; ba' on the grun; lovely passin'. 1999 F. McCourt 'Tis li.459 Quiet lad your brother Alphie. Och, aye. Quiet lad. 2002 Mirror (Nexis) 3 Aug. 4 Swing from the rafters, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival starts tomorrow. Och aye the noo! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < int.a1522 |
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