bog-brained

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English

Adjective

bog-brained (comparative more bog-brained, superlative most bog-brained)

  1. (Ireland, derogatory) Stupid.
    • 1990, Chris Fish, “The Jazz Butcher”, in Far Out And Fishy‎, number 4:
      To tar a chap of intelligence, wit and insight (and a cobbler-togetherer of exceedingly good popular musical tunes to boot) with the same mucky brush as the likes of Half Man Half Biscuit (who have just reformed. I think the question here is 'why, exactly?') will mark you out for life as a cauliflower-eared, bog-brained dolt, so there.
    • 1997 March 5, Chris Morris, “Decline”, in Brass Eye:
      But try telling these bog-brained murphies.
    • 1998, Marina Carr, By the Bog of Cats, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
      It gives me an edge over all of yees around here, allows me see yees for the inbred, underbred, bog-brained shower yees are.
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