gobshite
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Ireland/ˈɡɒbˌʃaɪt/
gobshite noun: one who engages in nonsensical chatter or unwanted conversation.
Noun
gobshite (plural gobshites)
- One who engages in nonsensical chatter or unwanted conversation.
- 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, […]1596, Thomas Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden, page 14
- A person of very poor judgment and unpleasant character.
- LaTisha […] left school a head-banging argumentative gobshite with no qualifications who wouldnʼt take no orders from no one.2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books, published 2020, page 191
- “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...2022 July 26, William Meny, Paul Simms, “The Night Market” (23:43 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 4, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou)
- Nonsense; speech or writing that is untrue, meaningless, or otherwise unwelcome.
- “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.2013 July 12, Wow [username], “How Einstein’s most famous equation affects you”, in Science blogs, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2023, comments - 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.2015 July 6, Macart [username], “The belated truth”, in Wings over Scotland, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2023, comments
- “You do work on the brick when you raise it. The Earth doesn’t do work on the brick as it falls.”
Examples of gobshite in a sentence
- And it is said that those little gobshites will do anything for it.”2022 July 26, William Meny, Paul Simms, “The Night Market” (23:43 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 4...
- Well, we have to start with Aleksandr Dugin, ideologue and genocide-inciting gobshite.2025 August 15th, Jonathan Fink, “Alaska Summit Dilemma: Z-Patriots, Putin, and Trump’s Tactical Dance”, in Silicon Curtain, Silicon Bites...
Forms of gobshite
| plural | gobshites |
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Origin of gobshite
From gob (“mouth”) + shite (“excrement”).
Questions about gobshite
- What does gobshite mean?
- Gobshite means one who engages in nonsensical chatter or unwanted conversation.
- How do you use gobshite in a sentence?
- And it is said that those little gobshites will do anything for it.”
- What part of speech is gobshite?
- Gobshite is a noun.
- How do you pronounce gobshite?
- Gobshite is pronounced /ˈɡɒbˌʃaɪt/ (Ireland).
- What is the plural of gobshite?
- The plural of gobshite is gobshites.
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