asthore
English
Etymology
From Irish Gaelic a ("oh") + stór ("treasure").
Noun
asthore
- treasure (as a term of endearment)
- 1866 Patrick Kennedy, "Jack and His Comrades" in: Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts
- "Ah, then, Jack asthore," says he [the ass].
- 1939 James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
- And there she was right enough, that lovely sight enough, the girleen bawn asthore, as for days galore, of planxty Gregory.
- 1866 Patrick Kennedy, "Jack and His Comrades" in: Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts
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