musha, int.
(ˈmʌʃə)
[a. Irish maiseadh, lit. ‘if it is so’.]
An exclamation of surprise used by Irish speakers.
| 1831 S. Lover Leg. & Stor. Irel. 3 Musha, thin, do you tell me so? 1837 ― Rory O'More xlvi, Musha! but you're the very sowl of good nature. 1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 15 Oh, musha! the divil a drown ye'll drown, Murty Hooligan, while there's hemp for the sowing. 1933 Davies & Thomson tr. O'Sullivan's Twenty Years A-Growing i. 7 Ah, musha, youth is a queer thing. |