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Ouche vs Ouphe - What's the difference?

ouche | ouphe |

As nouns the difference between ouche and ouphe

is that ouche is a brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when valuable or set with jewels while ouphe is a small, often mischievous sprite; a fairy; a goblin; an elf.

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.

    ouphe

    English

    Alternative forms

    * aulf

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A small, often mischievous sprite; a fairy; a goblin; an elf.
  • * 1602 , '', Act 5, Scene 4, 1768, John Baskerville, Alexander Pope (editors), ''The Works of Shakespear , Volume 1, page 301,
    • Strew good luck, ouphes , on every ?acred room, / That it may ?tand 'till the perpetual Doom, / In ?tate as whol?om, as in ?tate 'tis fit; / Worthy the owner, as the owner it.
  • * 1835', , ''The Culprit Fay'', '''1899 , ''The Culprit Fa[y] , page 4,
    • For an Ouphe has broken his vestal vow; / He has loved an earthly maid, / And left for her his woodly shade;
  • * 1835 , Review of The Culprit Fay and Other Poems'' by Joseph Rodman Drake and ''Alnwick Castle'' by Fitz-Greene Halleck, ''Southern Literary Messenger , Volume 2, page 329,
    • The plot is as follows. An Ouphe , one of the race of Fairies, has "broken his vestal vow,"in short, he has broken Fairy-law in becoming enamored of a mortal.