ochone

Scots

Alternative forms

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

    • 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

Borrowed from Irish ochón.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔˈxoːn/

Interjection

ochone

  1. alas
    • 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 ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎[2], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 130