o'hopes

Yola

Etymology

o' +‎ hopes

Contraction

o'hopes

  1. of hopes
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 3:
      albiet 'constitutional agitation', ye wake o'hopes ee-blighte,
      but that constitutional agitation, the consequence of disappointed hopes,

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 116
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