oons
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]oons
Etymology 2
[edit]Alteration of wounds.
Interjection
[edit]oons
- (now archaic) Expressing anger, surprise etc. [from 16th c.]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCCXXXIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
- Oons, woman, said I, the lady may be in a fit: the lady may be dying—Let me go up.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- [H]e no sooner comprehended the nature of this shower, which in a twinkling bedewed him from head to foot, than he exclaimed, “Blood and oons! I'm afloat?”