gobshite

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  • "You have no right to treat these people this way Get out of my way, gobshite," O'Connor said, let-ting go of Malachy and stepping toward Alex menacingly. —  Celtic Riddle
  • You see, I'm trying to figure out what goes on in the mind of a seventeen-year-old gobshite from Newry who enters a religious order, becomes a priest, eventually gets a job as private secretary to a Pope who is then murdered by the Vatican Bank, and finally ends up as a bishop in Ireland. —  Irish Blogs
  • Most expensive record shop in Dublin by a mile with the kind of surly gobshite staff (bar Gerry - who is surly but in a nice way) who make some of the eejits who've worked in Freebird down thru the years look like the staff of Are You Being Served? —  Irish Blogs
  • Remove drogs and any other gobshite and bring in some class. —  Chelsea Blog
  • Stephen 'dogshit' Green faces bankruptcy Litigious christian wingnut and gobshite Stephen 'dogshit' Green of Christian Voice faces possible bankruptcy after failing to pay the costs ... —  nullifidian
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  1. Perhaps ultimately from obsolete gobshite, wad of expectorated chewing tobacco or tobacco juice : gob2 + dialectal shite, excrement (from Middle English shiten, to defecate, from Old English *scītan; see skei- in Indo-European roots).
 

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