Meaning of gobshite | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who engages in nonsensical chatter or unwanted conversation.
   Ireland, UK, offensive, slang, vulgar
2. A person of very poor judgment and unpleasant character.
   Ireland, UK, offensive, slang, vulgar
3. Nonsense; speech or writing that is untrue, meaningless, or otherwise unwelcome.
   Ireland, UK, offensive, slang, vulgar

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Examples

“What’s that gobshite talking about now?”

“That whereas for anie time this foure and twentie yeare they haue plaid the fantasticall gub-shites and goose-giblets in Print, […]”

“LaTisha […] left school a head-banging argumentative gobshite with no qualifications who wouldnʼt take no orders from no one.”

““Water Lily of the Nile. That is what they call it. It’s a medicinal flower. It’s a narcotic that the Egyptians used to bury with their dead in order to help ease the sufferings of the afterlife. And according to the Compendium Narcoticum, it is the only drug that helps with the pain of being a wraith. Very hard to come by. And it is said that those little gobshites will do anything for it.””

“Well, we have to start with Aleksandr Dugin, ideologue and genocide-inciting gobshite.”

““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.”

“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.”

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