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morto

American  
[mawr-toh] / ˈmɔr toʊ /

adjective

  1. Slang. (in Ireland) mortified or mortifying; extremely embarrassed or embarrassing.


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Las carreros diouyon gemi, Tan belo morto bay sourti!

From Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Samuel Smiles

We rang the bell, and the woman answered; she recognised us, and, without any preliminary greetings, by an association of ideas, exclaimed at once, "Il cane e morto."

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare

Il diavolo e morto: Now, I think I have tickled it; this discovery has reinstated me into the empire of my wit again.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott

And all around toward Mestre and Treviso and Torcello; to San Pietro di Castello and the grim walls of the arsenal, the mare morto heaved gently and sighed.

From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick

Then, from the raised dais, he descried the tumult at the choir gates, whilst cries of "Il Giuliano e morto" reached his ears!

From The Tragedies of the Medici by Edgcumbe Staley

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