Ouch vs Ouche - What's the difference?

Ouch is an alternative form of ouche.

As nouns the difference between ouch and ouche

is that ouch is while ouche is (poetic) a brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when valuable or set with jewels.

As an interjection ouch

is an expression of one's own physical pain.

ouch

English

Etymology 1

Interjection

(en interjection)

An expression of one's own physical pain.

Ouch ! You stepped on my toe! That hurt!

An expression in sympathy at another's pain.

Ouch ! Her sunburn looks awful.

A reply to an insult (frequently one that is tongue-in-cheek or joking).

Ouch . How could you say that?

An expression of disappointment.

Ouch , I really wanted to do that.

(slang) Expressing surprise at the high price of something.

''Ouch , one hundred thousand dollars for a car! I could never afford that!

Synonyms

* (in all of the above senses) ow, owie, youch, yow, yowch

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

(es)

English onomatopoeias

ouche

English

Alternative forms

* nouch * ouch * owch

Noun

(en noun)

(poetic) A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when valuable or set with jewels.

* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XX:

and the horse [was] trapped in the same wyse, down to the helys, wyth many owchys , i-sette with stonys and perelys in golde, to the numbir of a thousande.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ii:

a Persian mitre on her hed / She wore, with crownes and owches garnished [...].

* 1611 , Bible , Authorized Version, Exodus XXVIII.11:

With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

* 1896 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Story of Ung’, Seven Seas :

There would be no pelts of the reindeer, flung down at thy cave for a gift, / Nor dole of the oily timber that strands with the Baltic drift; / No store of well-drilled needles, nor ouches of amber pale; / No new-cut tongues of the bison, nor meat of the stranded whale.