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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