asthore

English

Etymology

From Irish Gaelic a ("oh") + stór ("treasure").

Noun

asthore (plural asthores)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• earshot, haroset, soareth, toshear