mavrone

English

Etymology

Anglo-Irish, from Irish mo bhrón, from mo (“my”) + brón (“grief”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈvɹəʊn/

Interjection

mavrone

1. (Ireland) An expression of sorrow; alas.
   • 1893, WB Yeats, The Ballad of Father Gilligan:

     ‘Mavrone, mavrone! the man has died / While I slept in the chair’

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     And we to be there, mavrone, and you to be unbeknownst sending us your conglomerations the way we to have our tongues out a yard long like the drouthy clerics do be fainting for a pussfull.

Anagrams

• Overman, overman