gobshite

gobshite
gob·shite (gŏbʹshīt') 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-.]

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