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单词 och
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Brit. /ɒx/, /ɒk/, U.S. /ɑk/, /ɑx/, Scottish English /ɔx/, Irish English /ɒːx/, /ɑk/
Forms: 1500s 1800s– och, 1500s (1900s– Manx English) ogh; Scottish pre-1700 hoch, pre-1700 oche, pre-1700 1700s– och, pre-1700 1900s– ocht, 1800s oich, 1800s oigh, 1800s ough, 1900s– ooch; Irish English 1700s– och, 1900s– auch (northern), 1900s– uch (northern).
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Scottish Gaelic. Partly a borrowing from Irish. Etymons: Scottish Gaelic och; Irish och.
Etymology: < Scottish Gaelic och and Irish och (Early Irish uch ), interjections expressing sorrow or regret; compare Welsh och (13th cent.). Compare similar formations in other languages, e.g. Middle Dutch, Dutch och (compare note below), Middle Low German och , Middle High German och , Russian ox . Compare ach int., ugh int. and n.An isolated earlier borrowing from Middle Dutch och is apparently shown by:1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 31 The foxe herde alle thyse wordes..yet spak he and sayde, Och dere eme, me thynkyth ye payne your self sore, for to doo to me hurte and scathe.
Chiefly Scottish and Irish English.
1. Originally: expressing sorrow or regret. Later: expressing annoyed dismissal or disregard, exasperation, etc. och how!: ‘alas!’.
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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. 26Och, 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.
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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).
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