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gob·shite [gob-shahyt] Pronunciation Key
–noun Chiefly Irish Slang: Vulgar.
1.a mean and contemptible person, esp. a braggart.
2.a stupid and incompetent person.
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gob·shite       (gŏb'shīt')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Chiefly British Slang
A person regarded as mean or contemptible.


[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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