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bog-brained

bog-brained adjective: stupid.

Adjective

bog-brained (comparative more bog-brained, superlative most bog-brained)

  1. (Ireland, derogatory) Stupid.
    • To tar a chap of intelligence, wit and insight (and a cobbler-togetherer of exceedingly good popular musical tunes to boot) with the same mucky brush as the likes of Half Man Half Biscuit (who have just reformed. I think the question here is 'why, exactly?') will mark you out for life as a...1990, Chris Fish, “The Jazz Butcher”, in Far Out And Fishy, number 4
    • But try telling these bog-brained murphies.1997 March 5, Chris Morris, “Decline”, in Brass Eye

Examples of bog-brained in a sentence

  • I think the question here is 'why, exactly?') will mark you out for life as a cauliflower-eared, bog-brained dolt, so there.1990, Chris Fish, “The Jazz Butcher”, in Far Out And Fishy, number 4:
  • It gives me an edge over all of yees around here, allows me see yees for the inbred, underbred, bog-brained shower yees are.1998, Marina Carr, By the Bog of Cats, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

Forms of bog-brained

comparativemore bog-brained
superlativemost bog-brained

Questions about bog-brained

What does bog-brained mean?
Bog-brained means stupid.
How do you use bog-brained in a sentence?
I think the question here is 'why, exactly?') will mark you out for life as a cauliflower-eared, bog-brained dolt, so there.
What part of speech is bog-brained?
Bog-brained is an adjective.

Words near bog-brained in the dictionary

  1. bog willow
  2. bog wood
  3. bog-bean
  4. bog-beans
  5. bog-blitter
  6. bog-brained
  7. bog-hole
  8. bog-holes
  9. bog-house
  10. bog-houses
  11. bog-myrtle

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