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(South India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, informal) expressing distress, regret, fear quotations examples
'Are you crying for your father?' 'Aiyo, aiyo!' wailed the girl. 'I shall never see him again!'
1886, Chamber's Journal. 20 Mar. 184/1
Aiyo! aiyo! My little Podi Sinho!
1913, L. Woolf, Village in Jungle ii. 28
'Aiyo its our Kalu' they all cried.
1971, Fashion Panaroma (Ceylon) Apr. 31
Aiyo! Never thought our beloved principal will come to this end.
1982, R.K. Narayan, Tiger for Malgudi (1984) 119
Vijaya touched Rajam's forehead and exclaimed, Aiyo. She is running very high temperature.
2009, S. Manickavasagam, Power of Passion 218