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- interjection An expression of sorrow;
alas .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Men, teacan a tea simmering, hamo mavrone kerry O? Teapotty.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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And we to be there, mavrone, and you to be unbeknownst sending us your conglomerations the way we to have our tongues out
Ulysses 2003
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WHERE is my chief, my master, this bleak night, mavrone?
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-- 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 pussful.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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I have been discharged by the squire from his family, and -- _mavrone_, oh!
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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Had you given her less of her own way, and kept her more from dances and merry-makings, it might be better for yourselves and her today; still, I grant you, it was hard to do it -- for who, mavrone, could refuse her anything?
The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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"Sure you'll pay me! mavrone, but it's often you've said that afore, and divil a cross o 'Your coin ever we seen yet; faith, it's you that's heavily in my debt, when I think of all ever you promised to pay me."
Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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I'll never get home by myself -- that's what I won't -- mavrone, oh! what's this?
The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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-- why, then, God help us, it's we that can complain, Donnel, if there was any use in it; but, mavrone, there isn't; so all I can say is, that we're jist mixed middlin ', like the praties in
The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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"Och," said he, wiping his brow with the cuff of his coat, "_mavrone orth a muck_, * but I'm kilt wit you.
Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
brtom commented on the word mavrone
-- 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 pussful.
Joyce, Ulysses, 9
January 5, 2007
Phil-Fluther commented on the word mavrone
Hamlet Yorick to you?
Horatio Mavrone.
September 28, 2014