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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compare cat (“terrible”) and cat's melody.
Ciaran Carson suggests influence of Irish cat marbh/cat mara; literally "dead cat"/"sea cat", figuratively "calamity".
Adjective
cat melodeon
- (Ireland, informal) terrible, appalling; of very poor quality
1997, Michael Coady, “The Longest Puck”, in All Souls, Gallery Press, →ISBN, page 65:We're fed up of
festivals and funerals
and Munster Finals
with backs that were
cat melodeon.
2016 April 18, “Broadband service is ‘cat melodeon'”, in The Southern Star:Cllr Danny Collins (Ind) pointed out that half of West Cork doesn’t have phone coverage either, and that the situation with broadband was ‘cat melodeon’.
2019, Conor Bowman, chapter 11, in Hughie Mittman's Fear of Lawnmowers, Hachette UK, →ISBN:I'm going to do something cat-melodeon wrong and say you did it and everyone will believe me.
- (Ireland, informal) cacophonous; raucous
- 2021 Christy Moore and Wally Page, "Zozimus & Zimmerman"
- The lights went down and the crowd went cat melodeon
- We were all revved up and ready to engage
- Having hitch hiked all the way from Minnesota
- Zimmerman was there before us on the stage
References
- ^ Carson, Ciaran (1996) Last Night's Fun: A Book about Irish Traditional Music, Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 123