int. Sc. [f. wae, Sc. form of WOE; the ending app. represents sake(s: see SAKE sb.] Expressing commiseration: Woe is me! Alas!
a. 1774. Fergusson, Braid Claith, 13. Waesucks for him wha has nae feck o’t.
1786. Burns, Holy Fair, xxv. Waesucks! for him that gets nae lass, Or lasses that hae naething.
1806. [J. Black], Falls of Clyde, 133. Ye trust, waesucks! in works.
1867. J. K. Hunter, Retrosp. Artist’s Life, xxviii. (1912), 291. The working man’s home in Glasgow was visible, but waesucks for the back places about London.
