Div ye no ken that ye've a titch o' the rose (erysipelas), and ocht tae be in the hoose?
Aiblins some people are cuttin' grass wha ocht to be under it, because they don't know they're alive, eh what?
The old woman heard her too, for she said: "Dae ye ken ocht aboot kye?
He speired whether we had seen ocht o' a young man in a trooper's uniform wanderin' aboot the moors.
If ye had been whaur ye ocht to hae been, and that was in the kirk, last Sunday, ye wad hae found me at my place," said Erchie.
They ocht to have made the Freemason's bazaar a man's yin, seein' the Freemasons 'll no tell the weemen their secrets nor let them into their lodges.
Gyf that my mynd can ocht ymagn rycht, I weyn that he suld be the sammyn knycht, 10 And glaidly wald, with al my hartis desire, The werdys tharto callit that rial syre.
I haue alsso a schort comment compyld To expon strange historeis and termys wild; And gif ocht lakis mar, quhen that is doyn, At ȝour desyre it salbe writtyn soyn.
Tharfor desist of thi strenth to haue dreid, Or me to pray in ocht at thou hes neyd; For in sic cacis thar nedis na request: 5 Am I nocht reddy to fulfill thy behest?
Ye ken, sir, there are some fouk that'll no' gi'e in when ocht ails them.
But, Maister Weelum, if it's ocht ye want to ken, ye maunna ask him questions.
What struck me mair than ocht else,' she continued, 'was her couthie, affable mainner.
Puir sowl, he's quite pleased when I ask him to do ocht for you,' she continued.
Can I help ye, Maister Weelum, or is there ocht I can do to mak' ye comfortable?
Your bellys sall ryng, for ocht at ye do may, “Quhen thai hym sla, halff an hour off that day.
Stedfast he red, for ochtthai did him thar: Feyll Sotheroun said, at Wallace feld na sayr.
It wald on him, for ocht thai cuth dewyss, 385 Continualy, quhill thai had castyn thryss.
Than said thai all, Wallace mycht nocht away, He suld be tharis forocht at he do may.
Apon him self he tuk full gret trawaill To fend his men, gyff that mycht ocht awaill.
Or if no that Scotland ocht to brink Her music-maister too, Wi' bagpipe and Scotch fiddle We'll find him wark to do.
Say there's a keeper o' the swans Whose office ocht to cease, Or Scotland behoves a keeper too, To keep her Solan geese.
An' ye'll be for no letting on ye ken ocht about it!
An' what for suldna we ca' him to adveese wi' us what ocht to be dune?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ocht" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
