or Lawks! intj. (colloquial).—An exclamation of surprise.

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  1836.  DICKENS, Pickwick Papers, xxxix. LAWK, Mr. Weller … how you do frighten me.

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  c. 1845.  HOOD, The Lost Heir, l. 25. LAWK help me, I don’t know where to look.

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  1860.  G. ELIOT, The Mill on the Floss, Bk. I. ch. vii. ‘LAWKS! what have you been a-doing? I niver see such a fright.’

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  1886.  BARING-GOULD, Golden Feather, p. 27 (S.P.C.K.). ‘Going to remain here?’ he asked. ‘LAWK, no! only come over with the ’oss,’ replied Joe Marriage.

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  1886.  Pioneer (N.Y.), Oct. ‘LAWKS!’ exclaimed Mrs. Partington.

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