Cat

n.

Heard in Wicklow, Armagh, Donegal, Waterford, Antrim, Wexford, Tipperary, Cork and Dublin

Unpleasant, useless or of poor quality.

In use

The dinner looked and smelled lovely but tasted cat.

Posh English

The dinner appeared and smelled quite magnificent, yet it tasted perfectly dreadful.

Same phrase, other counties

  • Cat malojanHaving undesirable or negative qualities. Cat is also used in Armagh / Sligo and other…
  • Cat melodeonAwful, terrible, very bad. Often just left as 'cat'. Sounds like 'melojen'.
  • Cat melojenDescribing something utterly atrocious, ancient, or of dreadfully poor quality. Melojen…
  • Pure catExtremely poor quality, dreadful, or awful.
  • Black cat black kittenTo behave according to type, a chip off the old block.
  • Cat malogenTerrible, awful, or disastrous.