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My dear, in Erin
Answer for the clue "My dear, in Erin ", 7 letters:
machree
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Word definitions for machree in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Irish expression, 1829, from Irish-Gaelic mo chroidhe "(of) my heart," hence "my dear!"
Usage examples of machree.
James Bolivar diGriz and I was born a little over seventeen years ago in this very city in the Mother Machree Maternity Hospital for Unemployed Porcuswineherders.
He gets the knowledge that he has been full of brotherhood and loyalty, and he knows that Mother Machree will toss five hundred bucks into the pot for the next beer bust.
ALSOP, AT THE TIME MONK CAME TO COLLEGE, HAD BECOME A kind of Mother Machree of the campus, the brood hen of yearling innocents, the guide and mentor of a whole flock of fledgeling lives.
As he staggered from the library he was singing about Mother Machree and the dear silver he intended to kiss in her hair.