ochone

Scots

Alternative forms

• ohone

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.xo.nə/

Interjection

ochone

1. 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

1. • 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.

   • 1901, Katharine Tynan, “Green Bushes”, in Poems, page 79:

     Ochone, the days that are over!

Yola

Etymology

Cognate with Scots ochone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈkɔːn/

Interjection

ochone

1. 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

• 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