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单词 wasteheart
释义

wasteheartint.

Forms:

α. 1600s wee'st heart, 1700s wa-ist heart, 1700s wae'st heart, 1700s–1800s waste heart, 1800s waast-heart, 1800s waasteheart, 1800s waestart, 1800s wast-heart, 1800s wasteheart, 1800s–1900s wae's t'heart.

β. 1700s–1800s wae's-heart, 1800s waes heart, 1800s–1900s wae's heart.

γ. 1700s wazistheart, 1800s waesis t'heart, 1800s weeas is t'heart, 1800s–1900s waes is t'heart.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: English wae is (the) heart.
Etymology: < wae is (the) heart; compare similar expressions at woe adj. 1a.
English regional (chiefly Yorkshire) and Scottish. Obsolete.
Used to express grief, pity, regret, disappointment, or concern: ‘alas!’ ‘woe is me!’ Also wasteheart-a-day, wasteheart of me.
ΘΚΠ
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
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love ii. i. 18 Fore. Nurse, Where's your young Mistress? Nurse. Wee'st heart, I know not, they're none of 'em come home yet.
1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 430 Wae'st heart, a condolence to the same purport with wae's me, woe is the heart, &c.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 141 'Mang men, wae's-heart! we aften find The brawest drest want peace o' mind.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Wa-ist heart, woe is me. N.
1827 C. I. Johnstone Elizabeth De Bruce III. ii. 25 Waes heart! waes heart!
1829 J. Hunter Hallamshire Gloss. Wast-heart-a-day, an expression of grief or of commiseration.
1835 E. Strutt Chances & Changes II. xvii. 308 Wae's-heart—it's a vexatious world we have to go through.
1854 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 9 349/2 Waestart, a common expression of sorrow or condolence among the lower classes..around Leeds.
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 445Wāasteheart barns! ye knawn't what's let on yuh, God help yuh!’ ‘How are yuh to-dāay then like?’ ‘Noa better, thenk yuh.’ ‘Ah, wāasteheart! wāasteheart!’
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Weeas is t'heart!, I am heartily sorry for it.
a1912 W. W. Skeat & A. L. Mayhew Gloss. Tudor & Stuart Words (1914) 445Wae's t'heart’, ‘Wae's heart of me’, are Yorks. exclamations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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