alannah
Britishinterjection
Etymology
Origin of alannah
from Irish Gaelic a leanbh
Example Sentences
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Oi fale so glad, alannah, Oi could dance for joy, loike the piper that played before Moses!”
From Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy by Greene, John B.
Woods: "My heart's far away with the Colleen I adore; Eileen alannah; Angus asthor."
From With Manchesters in the East by Hurst, Gerald B. (Gerald Berkeley), Sir
And now, what can I do for you, Nora alannah?
From Light O' the Morning by Meade, L. T.
God knows, Dick, you get far from fair play, acushla—far from the ating and drinking that other people's childher get, that hasn't as good a skin to put it in as you, alannah!
From The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William
Begorrah, it’s wishin’ I am, I stood in ye’r shoes, alannah, an’ I wouldn’t care for to call the Pope me ouncle, God bless him!”
From The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea by Austin, Henry
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