ouch
/aʊtʃ
/exclamation
Used to express pain: Ouch! I’ve trodden on a thistle...
- Suppose I have to go through the pain before things get better but ouch!
- I had a tiff with someone very dear to me the other day, and at some point during the argument I was hit with, ‘don't analyse me, leave it to the experts’ - ouch!
- A pencil eyeliner is also effective but make sure it's of a creamy texture as there's nothing worse than pulling a hard pencil across the tender skin of the eyelid - ouch!
Origin
Natural exclamation: first recorded in English in the mid 17th century.
Rhymes
- acoustical guitar
- acoustical guitarist
- acoustically
- acoustic coupler
- acoustic guitar
- acoustic guitarist
- acoustic hood
- acoustician
- acoustic impedance
- acoustic microscope
- acoustic mine
- acoustic nerve
- acousticolateral
- acousticolateralis
- acousticon
- acoustic phonetic
- acoustic phonetics
- acoustic shock
- acoustoelectric
- acoustoelectricity
- acoustoelectronic
- acoustoelectronics
- acousto-optic
- acousto-optical
- acousto-optically