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▪ I. wirra, int. Irish.|ˈwɪrə|
Also wurrah, whirra.
[Preceded by oh, = Ir. a muire.]
An exclamation of sorrow or lament.
1829G. Griffin Collegians I. vii. 153 O, wirra, Eily! this is the black day to your ould father. 1839Carleton Fardorougha xii, Oh, wurrah, wurrah, this night! 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xxii, And what was it at all? an upset, was it? oh, wirra! and wasn't it lucky he wasn't killed? 1908S. Weyman Wild Geese xxiii. 366 ‘Oh, whirra, whirra, what'll I do?’ the Irishman exclaimed, helplessly wringing his hands.
So wirrasthru |wɪrəsˈθruː| [Ir. a muire is truaige].
c1874D. Boucicault in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1969) II. 190 Ses he, ‘You won't see home for six months.’ Then I set up a wierasthru. Ibid. 214 Oh, weir asthru! What'll I do! 1892T. E. Brown Lett. (1900) I. 158 He..rushed forth to catch the train,..with some wild wirrasthru of farewell.
▪ II. wirra, n. Austral.|ˈwɪrə|
[Aboriginal.]
1. A species of acacia, Acacia salicina, burnt by Aborigines for its ash; = couba.
1906J. H. Maiden Wattles & Wattle-Barter (ed. 3) 90 A. salicina, Lindl... Following are some additional aboriginal names..‘Wirrha’, Cooper's Creek, near Lake Eyre. 1941I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang xiv. 102 Burned leaves of the wirra (a species of acacia, the leaves of which when burned yield a powder of potash).
2. A shallow wooden scoop used by Aborigines.
1935H. H. Finlayson Red Centre vii. 74 A hunting party may decide suddenly to move on to another ground. Without more ado, the men reach for their spears and walk away, and their women follow, carrying no more than a yamstick, a wirra, and their youngest child. 1956Landfall June 99 She carried two large pitchi, her four-foot-long mulga digging-stick, which she had freshly sharpened..by charring..; and her wirra, a shallow wood scoop. |