Definition of gobshite

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gob·shite    (gbsht) KEY 

NOUN:
Chiefly British Slang

A person regarded as mean or contemptible.

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ETYMOLOGY:
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 *sctan; see skei- in Indo-European roots)