asthore
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Irish Gaelic a ("oh") + stór ("treasure").
Noun
[edit]asthore (plural asthores)
- 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 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:
- And there she was right enough, that lovely sight enough, the girleen bawn asthore, as for days galore, of planxty Gregory.