ochone
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ochone
- Expresses regret or sorrow.
- Highland Lament
- Oh I am come to the low countrie, ochone, ochone, ochrie. Without a penny in my purse. Tae buy a meal tae me.
Quotations[edit]
- 1908, Edwin Emmanuel Bradford, Sonnets, Songs and Ballads[1], page 111:
- What to do with a boy like young Paddy Maloy / Is a problem to puzzle a sage; / I’m thinking, ochone! we must leave him alone, / For it’s too late to change at his age.
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ochone
- ouch
- 1927, “LAMENT OF A WIDOW”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 130, line 1:
- Ochone! to fo shul Ich maak mee moan,
- Ochone, to whom shall I make my moan,
- 1927, “LAMENT OF A WIDOW”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 130, line 4:
- Ochone! Jone, thee yart deed.
- Ochone, John, you are dead.
References[edit]
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 130