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Examples
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– For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul and blood and ouns.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Blasphemy Made a Crime in Ireland: 2009
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– For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul and blood and ouns.
Miguel Cohen’s “Ulysses,” Part 1 : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2004
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At the same time he inwardly chuckled over his gentle repartee to the blood and ouns champion about his god being a jew.
Ulysses 2003
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For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul and blood and ouns.
Ulysses 2003
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"Tare an 'ouns! he must be monstrous well-pleased over something!" he marvelled.
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"Tare an 'ouns, Tracy! but an that is the tone you take with her, she'll have none of you!"
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"Tare an 'ouns! you must like someone else in the world besides me?"
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-- For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul and blood and ouns.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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At the same time he inwardly chuckled over his gentle repartee to the blood and ouns champion about his god being a jew.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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"Blood and 'ouns, ye've the door taken away again."
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895
goodday commented on the word ouns
ouns means wounds. "Tare an 'ouns!" is "Tears and wounds of Christ, " a mild interjection. Like "Zounds" is a contraction of "God's wounds."
June 23, 2013