wurraint.
/ˈwʌrə/, U.S. /ˈwərə/, Irish English /ˈwʌrə/ Anglo-Irish.
An exclamation of grief or despair.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [interjection] > specific cry of grief
woeeOE
wellawayeOE
weilac1000
wellawayOE
wellaOE
woe is meOE
wummec1175
wia1200
outa1225
alas?c1225
walec1275
ac1300
whilec1402
ochonea1425
wellesay?1440
wannowec1450
helas1484
ah1509
ocha1522
ah me!a1547
wougha1556
eh1569
welladay1570
how1575
wellanear1581
ay me!1591
lasa1593
wella, welladay1601
good lack!1638
oime1660
pillaloo1663
wellanearing1683
lack-a-day1695
wasteheart1695
walya1724
lackadaisy1748
ochree1748
waesucks1773
well-a-winsa1774
ullagone1819
wirra1825
mavrone1827
wirrasthru1827
ototoi1877
wurra1898
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > exclamation of despair [interjection]
wurra1936
1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 21 Oh! wurra, wurra, that I should live to see him stiff and cowld.
1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind x. 206 He groaned. ‘Wurra the day!’
1952 E. O'Neill Moon for Misbegotten ii. 91 I'm not like you, owning up I'm beaten and crying wurra wurra like a coward.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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