英和和英

名詞

heart-ache (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 heart-aches)

1. Archaic form of heartache.
   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 23–24:

     So Dangerfield’s little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of the heart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to.

   • 1900 April, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Introduction”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., published 17 May 1900, →OCLC:

     It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out.

   • 1931, Emma Goldman, Living My Life, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1934, page 316:

     Every day brought more disappointment and heart-ache.