o'hopes
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Yola[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Contraction[edit]
o'hopes
- of hopes
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 2-4:
- ye wake o'hopes ee-blighte, stampe na yer zwae be rare an lightzom.
- the consequence of disappointed hopes, confirms your rule to be rare and enlightened.
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 116