mavourneen

/məˈvʊɹniːn/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

""Ay, Paddy, mavourneen; I'll be bail they didn't skit and laugh the way some people would be doin'." "Laugh! not thimsilves, indeed.""
"1850 (approx.), Anonymous, Finnegan's Wake Biddy O'Brien began to cry "Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see? "Arrah, Tim, mavourneen, why did you die?" "Ah, shut your gob," said Paddy McGee!"

Hiberno-English, from Irish mo mhuirnín (“my darling”) (diminutive of muirn (“affection”)).

mavourneens (plural)

avourneen

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How do you pronounce mavourneen?

The recorded pronunciation is /məˈvʊɹniːn/.

What does mavourneen mean?

darling, sweetheart

Where does mavourneen come from?

Hiberno-English, from Irish mo mhuirnín (“my darling”) (diminutive of muirn (“affection”)).

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