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Irish
Etymology
Taboo deformation of Mhuire, vocative of Muire (“(the Blessed Virgin) Mary”).
Pronunciation
Interjection
mhaige
- indeed!, really!
Further reading
- “mhaige”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mhaige”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 74