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brother

/ˈbɹʌðɚ/ interjection C2
  1. Expressing exasperation. · We're being forced to work overtime? Oh, brother!
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Farewell, O brother, sister, sire!
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 13 · C1
I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!” (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, “A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!”) The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 13 · B2
Pinkney’s brother was once Minister to Bolivia.”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 5 · C1
That night came Aunt Ellen, gentle, sentimental, wrinkled, sighing, oppressed by wealth, in to Brother Anthony at his evening paper, and began discourse on the subject of lovers’ woes.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 12 · C1

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