(Irish, ;, British, especially, Scotland, Northumbria) Shush, silence, be quiet!.
(Irish, ;, British, especially, Scotland, Northumbria) Shush, silence, be quiet!.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(Ireland) An expression of surprise.
A British and Irish slang term used as both a noun and an exclamation, meaning excrement, rubbish, or something of very low quality. It functions as a softer-sounding regional variant of its more familiar four-letter cousin and is heard across Scotland, Northern England, and the whole of Ireland in everyday speech, in pubs, on TV, and in comedy writing. As an exclamation it expresses annoyance, frustration, or disappointment; as a noun it dismisses an object, performance, or situation as worthless. The word carries casual rather than formal vulgarity, and is so embedded in regional speech that it often appears in news copy and signage without raising eyebrows.
(Scotland) evasive indecisive speech.
(Scotland) To whisk; to fly hastily.