oons

Expressing anger, surprise etc.

Interjection

  1. Expressing anger, surprise etc.
    • Oons, woman, said I, the lady may be in a fit: the lady may be dying—Let me go up. - 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCCXXXIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to...
    • [H]e no sooner comprehended the nature of this shower, which in a twinkling bedewed him from head to foot, than he exclaimed, “Blood and oons! I'm afloat?” - 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle...

Origin

Alteration of wounds.

Noun

  1. plural of oon