mavrone

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/məˈvɹəʊn/

interjection

An expression of sorrow; alas.

OriginIrish mo bhrón →
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Meanings

interjection
  1. IrelandAn expression of sorrow; alas.

    ‘Mavrone, mavrone! the man has died / While I slept in the chair’

    1893, WB Yeats, The Ballad of Father Gilligan
    1 more example

    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

  1. Irishmo bhrón
  2. Englishmavrone

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

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APA

mavrone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mavrone

MLA

“mavrone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mavrone. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mavrone,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mavrone.

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