ochone

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.xo.nə/

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.

1. • 1908, Edwin Emmanuel Bradford, Sonnets, Songs and Ballads, 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.

• ohone

ochone

1. ouch
   • 1927, “LAMENT OF A WIDOW”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 1:

     Ochone! to fo shul Ich maak mee moan,

     Ochone, to whom shall I make my moan,

• 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