ouch

Meanings

Interjection

• An expression of one's own physical pain.
• An expression in sympathy at another's pain.
• A reply to an insult seen as savage (frequently one that is tongue-in-cheek or joking).
• An expression of disappointment.
• Expressing surprise at the high price of something.

Noun

• Alternative of ouche

Related

Similar words

• ow, owie, youch, yow, yowch

Origin

• Uncertain. Some sources say the interjection is attested since 1838 (and specifically in American English) and derives ultimately from German autsch, perhaps specifically via Pennsylvania German outch ("cry of pain"), as early attestations of the interjection are from Pennsylvania. or "natural" exclamation attested since the mid 1600s, and the 1933 OED
• Variant forms.