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mavrone

/məˈvɹəʊn/

mavrone interjection: an expression of sorrow; alas.

Interjection

  1. (Ireland) An expression of sorrow; alas.
    • ‘Mavrone, mavrone! the man has died / While I slept in the chair’1893, WB Yeats, The Ballad of Father Gilligan
    • 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.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Origin of mavrone

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

Questions about mavrone

What does mavrone mean?
Mavrone means an expression of sorrow; alas.
What part of speech is mavrone?
Mavrone is an interjection.
How do you pronounce mavrone?
Mavrone is pronounced /məˈvɹəʊn/.

Words near mavrone in the dictionary

  1. mavournins
  2. Mavridis
  3. mavrilimumab
  4. mavrodaphne
  5. mavrodaphnes
  6. mavrone
  7. Mavrud
  8. Mavruds
  9. MAVs
  10. maw
  11. maw shot

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