单词 | agra |
释义 | agran. Irish English. As a term of endearment: ‘my love’; ‘dear’. ΚΠ 1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. ii. 8 I am always happy when you are spaiking, whether I'm asleep or awake a gra. 1825 Dublin & London Mag. Oct. 353/1 ‘Why, what happened your eyes, agrah?’ axed the ould woman. 1847 A. Trollope Macdermots I. ix. 213 Kathleen, agra,..bring me a glass of sperrits, will you? 1912 ‘G. A. Birmingham’ Lighter Side of Irish Life viii. 173 A child is addressed as ‘agra’ or in the case of a boy ‘avic’. The words are pure Gaelic, and mean ‘my dear’ and ‘my son’. 1998 W. Keady Mary McGreevy (1999) x. 111 The grin came off his gob when he spotted the thunder on her face. ‘What's the matter, Kitty, a ghradh?’ 2009 Roscommon (Ireland) Herald (Nexis) 9 June ‘Seáneen, a ghrá,’ she said, ‘it's an awful pity you never played a biteen of football.’ This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1757 |
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