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Word of the day: Waesucks. interjection: means alas. Waesucks or waesuck, “alas, woe (is me),” is a Scots word composed of wae, the Scots form of woe, and suck or sucks, Scots variants of the noun sake, now used only in the expression “for the sake of X, for X’s sake.” But Robert Burns uses waesucks in The Holy Fair (1786), which makes waesucks a keeper. Example: "Waesucks! For him that gets nae lass, / Or lasses that hae naething!" Robert Burns, "The Holy Fair," Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1786