avick

Meanings

noun

IrelandA form of address to a male friend or young man.
"Why, thin, Paddy, avick, it isn't your airly risin', anyhow that 'ill do you any harm this mornin'." "It's thrue enough for you, Thady Byrne," answered Paddy casting a look up at the sky; "for I b'leeve it's purty late in the day."
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 514
Synonyms: buddy, mate, my boy, my son

nounA form of address to a male friend or young man.

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Borrowed from Irish a mhic (“literally, my son”), from a (“vocative marker”) + mhic (“lenited form of mic”), variant of mac (“son”).

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