Word.ws English Dictionary

asthore

asthore noun: treasure (as a term of endearment).

Noun

asthore (plural asthores)

  1. treasure (as a term of endearment)
    • "Ah, then, Jack asthore," says he [the ass].1866, Patrick Kennedy, “Jack and His Comrades”, in Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts
    • And there she was right enough, that lovely sight enough, the girleen bawn asthore, as for days galore, of planxty Gregory.1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC

Forms of asthore

pluralasthores

Origin of asthore

From Irish Gaelic a ("oh") + stór ("treasure").

Questions about asthore

What does asthore mean?
Asthore means treasure (as a term of endearment).
What part of speech is asthore?
Asthore is a noun.
What is the plural of asthore?
The plural of asthore is asthores.

Words near asthore in the dictionary

  1. asthmatics
  2. asthmatoid
  3. asthmaweed
  4. asthmogenesis
  5. asthmogenic
  6. asthore
  7. asthores
  8. Asti
  9. ASTIA
  10. astichous
  11. Astigarraga

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: asthore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “asthore.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/asthore. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.