tear and ages

interjection

An expression of surprise, shock, or dismay.

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Meanings

interjection
  1. obsoleteAn expression of surprise, shock, or dismay.

    "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
    1 more example

    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
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