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blood and ouns en · INTJ
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(archaic, dialectal, qualifier:mildly blasphemous) Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, frustration.
She laughed, and blood and ouns ! I heard the expression and kissed them all round, ay, the heiress herself!
1840, Margaret Baron-Wilson, Chronicles of life, page 77:Och, blood an ouns! what can the matter be !
1807, Colman Jr., The Mountaineers, in The English and American Stage - Volume 13, page 36:Blood an 'ouns can't you say something.
1833, The New Theatrical Observer and Censor of the Stage, page 70:
blood and ouns en · NOUN
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(archaic, dialectal, plural, plural-only) The blood and wounds of Christ on the cross.
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", […]
1996, Harry Blamires, The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses, →ISBN, page 3: