| 释义 |
▪ I. ‖ moya Geol.|ˈmoja|
[? S. American Sp.]
A name for volcanic mud.
1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 410 Streams of water and fetid mud, called ‘moya’, poured out, overflowing and wasting everything. 1884Leisure Hour Apr. 246/2 A substance called moya, composed of augite, carbon, and infusoria.
▪ II. moya, int. Ireland.|mɔɪˈɑː|
Also maureeyah, mauryah, mor-yah, moyah, moy-yah.
[ad. Ir. mar dh'eadh, as if it were so.]
Used as an ironic interjection (see quots.).
The spelling in the head-word, which is that of James Joyce, is not otherwise authenticated.
1910P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland 296 Mor-yah; a derisive expression of dissent to drive home the untruthfulness of some assertion or supposition or pretence, something like the English ‘forsooth’, but infinitely stronger. 1911Jrnl. Co. Kildare Archæol. Soc. VI. 535 Maureeyah, this expression denotes a strong doubt as to the truthfulness of a statement. ‘That notorious poacher, Loughlin Murphy, tould the magistrates he didn't know how to set a snare, Maureeyah.’ Ibid., Moy-yah, this is much the same expression as Maureeyah... It conveys the same sense as the English saying, ‘You may tell that to the Horse Marines’. 1914Joyce Dubliners 151 And the men used to go in on Sunday morning before the houses were open to buy a waistcoat or a trousers—moya! 1922― Ulysses 327 Beggar my neighbour is his motto. Love, Moya! 1925Blackw. Mag. Dec. 784/2 'Tis a bad pair to beat we are, moyah! 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 375 The wonder of the women of the world together, moya! 1944Béaloideas XIV. 176 Mauryah. A word implying doubt and irony. |