Meaning of bog Irish | Babel Free

Definitions

People of low-class Irish ancestry.

derogatory, plural, plural-only

Examples

“My friends dismissed him as a Kerry sheep thief and a bog Irish gombeen man.”

““Ye stupid, stupid, bloody woman,” he said. “I'd forgive ye if it was the first time and put it down to pure, unadulterated, bog Irish buck ignorance, but it's not bloody well the first time, and ye knew exactly what ye were up to. Didn't ye? Didn't ye?"”

“'Your fucking Jocky ancestors were forming a football team in Glasgow around that time,' he said. 'God bless them. They were bog Irish like my own, with hardly a kilo of potatoes between the lot of them.'.”

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