Definition of "acushla" [acushla]

• Darling (noun)

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• "Irish side when courting her as a humorous short cut to a quasi familiarity, for you may call a girl "acushla" and "Ellin darlint" when otherwise you are fully aware, but for the Irish of it, she would have to be referred to as Miss Dodworth."
• "But, sure, you wouldn't know what that is, acushla, nor what it may mean to the likes of me."
• "Did you dream you were ating your own tripe, acushla, that you tied yourself up that wrynecky fix? —"