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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
tear and ages en · INTJ
Meanings
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(obsolete) An expression of surprise, shock, or dismay.
Tear and ages! excuse my vehaymence,
But can't the spalpeens understand,
That some bastes loike to take to the wather,
Tho' some choose to stay upon land.
1860 October 4, Melbourne Punch, page 83, column 2:"By the powers o' dilph! Paddy, ahaygar, an' it was a grand sight shure enough. Tare an' ayjirs! what ill loock I had not to be in the work this year!"
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 515: