o'

See also: Appendix:Variations of “o”

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə/
  • (US, deliberate) IPA^(key): /oʊ/
• Homophone: a
• Rhymes: -ə, -oʊ

Preposition

o’

1. (unstressed) Contraction of of..

   Gimme two o’ those ones.

   from two o’clock until closing time

   top o’ the mornin to ye

2. (obsolete, unstressed) Contraction of on.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

Alternative forms

• o, a

Derived terms

Derived terms

• back o’ Bourke
• cat-o’-nine-tails
• jack-o’-lantern
• John o’ Groats
• man-o’-war
• o’clock
• run-o’-the-mill
• will-o’-the-wisp

Acehnese

Noun

o'

1. hair

Yola

Etymology 1

Conjunction

o'

1. Alternative form of ar (“or”)
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     O hardïshe o' anoor.

     One thing or another.

Etymology 2

Preposition

o'

1. Alternative form of af (“of”)

Etymology 3

Adjective

o'

1. Alternative form of o (“one”)
   • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3:

     Shoo zent him o' die.

     She sent him one day.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 45, 60 & 108