mavrone

English

Etymology

Anglo-Irish, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Irish mo bhrón, from mo (“my”) + brón (“grief”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈvɹəʊn/

Interjection

mavrone

1. (Ireland) An expression of sorrow; alas.
   • 1893: ‘Mavrone, mavrone! the man has died / While I slept in the chair’ — WB Yeats, ‘The Ballad of Father Gilligan’
   • 1922: 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. — James Joyce, Ulysses

Anagrams

• Overman, overman