Mavrone

Pronunciation

• IPA: /məˈvɹəʊn/

Origin

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

Full definition of mavrone

Interjection

1. (Ireland) An expression of sorrow; alas.
• 1893: ‘Mavrone, mavrone! the man has died
  While I slept in the chair’ — WB Yeats, ‘The Ballad of Father Gilligan’
• 1922: 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. — James Joyce, Ulysses

Anagrams