blood and ouns

noun

The blood and wounds of Christ on the cross.

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Meanings

nounblood and ouns pl (plural only)
  1. archaicdialectalpluralplural onlyThe 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
interjection
  1. archaicdialectalmildly blasphemousExpression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, frustration.

    Blood an 'ouns can't you say something.

    1833, The New Theatrical Observer and Censor of the Stage, page 70
    2 more examples

    Och, blood an ouns! what can the matter be !

    1807, Colman Jr., The Mountaineers, in The English and American Stage - Volume 13, page 36

    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
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