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Word: ochs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auld Hornie, nae sooner is the lad in Oban than he spies a paughty lass wi' a weel-rounded doup. Och. but when he attempts to hae a crack wi' her, she snashes him back an' ca's him nae mair than a bluntie blellum. The neist lass he meets is a scroggie auld scaul' that snowks him out for a slidd'ry jaukiner from Ireland bent on houghmagandie (or waur), an' she gaes scraichin' to the bobbie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Blype o' Clishmaclaver | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...agitators collected 150,000 signatures asking her to stay away. In Nigeria, without blinking, she watched the fiery charge of thousands of spear-waving warriors and accepted the homage of such local chieftains as the Rwang Pam of Birom, the Atta of Igala, the Tor of Tiv and the Och of Idoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Redeemed Empire | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...Och, Weel." Dr. Ritchie's research started in the early 19305, when clerks in his health department pestered him for a vaccine against their recurrent colds. Glasgow-born Dr. Ritchie harrumphed that he would have no truck with such nonsense. But, says he: "One woman kept nattering at me so long that eventually I said 'Och, weel.' and decided to give her a vaccine to keep her quiet." He had a vaccine prepared from her saliva, told her it was being given only to prove its uselessness. Yet on weekly injections all one winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Common Cold: New Attack | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

Nonetheless, the Old Cambridge Hands are apt to be a bit snippy about what they consider an invasion of their private club. These OCH's, many of whom have no visible connection with Harvard, look askance at short pants on females and knee socks on men. They will sniff if you continue to dress as you did at your Old School, and will snicker if you adopt an Ivy League clothing. Intellectually, too, you will be damned if you do and damned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'To Thine Own Self Be True' | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...more dashing than the one before, they marched and charged before the royal box, where their leaders paused to salute, then move on. From a raised pavilion, the Queen accepted the homage of, among others, the Rwang Pam of Birom, the Atta of Igala, the Tor of Tiv, the Och of Idoma and the Etsu Nupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: The Queen's Durbar | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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