wirrah
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of wirrah
from a native Australian language
Example Sentences
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Wirrah, my lad, my lad, ’T is fearsome strange, The hints we all have had Passing the range Of science, knowledge, law, Or what you will, Whose intangible touch of awe Makes reason nil.
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Wirrah, but 'tis herself was the glutton for coal.
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Hadji Eseb entered into conversation with him, and meanwhile Lanty broke forth, ‘O wirrah, wirrah, Master Arthur! an’ have they made a haythen Moor of ye?
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