When all of us hit sth, we scream with pain: oh! aye! awe! ah! ma mamia! jesus christ! God!
But why some people shout: oupse! or ouch! what's the origin?

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When all of us hit sth, we scream with pain: oh! aye! awe! ah! ma mamia! jesus christ! God! 
 But why some people shout: oupse! or ouch! what's the origin?

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I hit my foot two weeks ago against my MEAN bed ... and you can trust me or not but you are not even close to the whole bunch of stuff I yelled ! i didn't know I knew sooo many bad expressions, but man ! my memory is good ! 
 =p

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I think ouch is just a variant on "oww" and I think "oww," to a large extent, is just an instinctual reaction, like an animal's yelp. It is the beginning sound to a cry.

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Hi,  the origin of the word 'ouch' came from America in 1830 and it is German in origin. The word 'oops' originated in 1925–30 but I can't find where it came from.

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