bog Irish

English

Etymology

From bog +‎ Irish.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪəɹɪʃ

Noun

bog Irish pl (plural only)

1. (derogatory) People of low-class Irish ancestry.
   • 2010, Andrew M. Greeley, Irish Crystal: A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel, →ISBN, page 165:

     My friends dismissed him as a Kerry sheep thief and a bog Irish gombeen man.

   • 2013, Patrick Taylor, Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor: An Irish Country Novel, →ISBN, page 42:

     “Ye stupid, stupid, bloody woman,” he said. “I'd forgive ye if it was the first time and put it down to pure, unadulterated, bog Irish buck ignorance, but it's not bloody well the first time, and ye knew exactly what ye were up to. Didn't ye? Didn't ye?"

   • 2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 35:

     'Your fucking Jocky ancestors were forming a football team in Glasgow around that time,' he said. 'God bless them. They were bog Irish like my own, with hardly a kilo of potatoes between the lot of them.'.