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ach

nouninterjectionattested in dialogue

  • //æt͡ʃ//
  • //æx//
  • //ɑx//
  • //əx//

An expression of annoyance.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteAny of several species of plants, such as smallage, wild celery, parsley.

Etymology

From Middle English ache, from Old French ache, from Latin apium (“parsley”).

interjection

  1. 1

    An expression of annoyance.

    "Ach." Auntie frowned hugely. "That is all nonsense."

  2. 2

    An expression of woe or regret.

  3. 3

    Variant of ochAlternative form of och.

Forms

plural
aches
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).