lorks
English
editEtymology
editInterjection
editlorks
- (UK, euphemistic, dated) oh dear, oh my God.
- 1849, E. P. Roswell, “A Story about an Execution”, in Ainsworth's Magazine, volume 16, page 31:
- [...] immediately upon his entrance, they straightway rose, to a woman, and each, with alarm in her countenance, ejaculated, " Oh lorks!"