blood and ouns
English edit
Noun edit
blood and ouns pl (plural only)
- (archaic, dialectal) The blood and wounds of Christ on the cross.
- 1996, Harry Blamires, The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses, →ISBN, page 3:
- Stephen watches Mulligan from the staircase as he mockingly blesses his surroundings and offers to an imaginary congregation the "body and soul and blood and ouns" (wounds) of a female Christ, "christine", […]
Interjection edit
- (archaic, dialectal, mildly blasphemous) Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, frustration.
- 1807, Colman Jr., The Mountaineers, in The English and American Stage - Volume 13, page 36:
- Och, blood an ouns! what can the matter be !
- 1833, The New Theatrical Observer and Censor of the Stage, page 70:
- Blood an 'ouns can't you say something.
- 1840, Margaret Baron-Wilson, Chronicles of life, page 77:
- She laughed, and blood and ouns ! I heard the expression and kissed them all round, ay, the heiress herself!