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English
Etymology
Anglo-Irish, from Irish mo bhrón, from mo (“my”) + brón (“grief”).
Pronunciation
Interjection
mavrone
- (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.
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