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ochone

ochone interjection: expresses woe or sorrow.

Interjection

ochone

  1. (Ireland, Scotland) Expresses woe or sorrow.
    • 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.1908, Edwin Emmanuel Bradford, Sonnets, Songs and Ballads, page 111
    • Ochone, the days that are over!1901, Katharine Tynan, “Green Bushes”, in Poems, page 79

Origin of ochone

Inherited from Middle English oghane, from Scottish Gaelic ochóin and Irish ochón. Cognate with Scots ochone.

Questions about ochone

What does ochone mean?
Ochone means expresses woe or sorrow.
What part of speech is ochone?
Ochone is an interjection.

Words near ochone in the dictionary

  1. Ochoan
  2. Ochoas
  3. ochodaeid
  4. ochodaeids
  5. ochoko
  6. ochone
  7. ochorina
  8. ochorinas
  9. ochotonid
  10. ochotonids
  11. OCHR

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