gobshite
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From gob (“mouth”) + shite (“excrement”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈɡɒbˌʃaɪt/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun[edit]
gobshite (plural gobshites)
- (Ireland, British, slang, offensive, vulgar) One who engages in nonsensical chatter or unwanted conversation.
- What's that gobshite talking about now?
- (Ireland, British, slang, offensive, vulgar) A person of very poor judgment and unpleasant character.
- 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 191:
- LaTisha [...] left school a head-banging argumentative gobshite with no qualifications who wouldnʼt take no orders from no one
- (Ireland, British, slang, offensive, vulgar) Nonsense; speech or writing that is untrue, meaningless, or otherwise unwelcome.
- 2013 July 12, Wow [username], “How Einstein's most famous equation affects you”, in Science blogs[1], archived from the original on 2023-11-29, comments:
- "You do work on the brick when you raise it. The Earth doesn’t do work on the brick as it falls."
With all due respect, that's a load of gobshite, John.
- 2015 July 6, Macart [username], “The belated truth”, in Wings over Scotland[2], archived from the original on 2023-12-24, comments:
- Aw they were always talking gobshite as far as I was concerned, but for most bods, if it was in black and white it was true.
Usage notes[edit]
- The collective expression shower of gobshites ("group of idiots") is quite common in Ireland.
Translations[edit]
one who engages in nonsensical chatter
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