Pleb

n.

Heard in Sligo, Mayo and Roscommon

Short for plebeian, now meaning an ignorant person. Also used as a casual, somewhat camp term for boy. Frequently employed between Sligo youths with little specific meaning.

Yer wan is some pleb" "Ya wee pleb

Posh English

That young lady is a remarkably ignorant person. You absurd little fellow.

Same phrase, other counties

• Mayo
• Roscommon

Related terms

• She's a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic!To be somewhat lacking in intelligence or quite scatterbrained.
• Nothing between the earsA person of little intelligence; a fool.
• UsThe objective pronoun me, frequently employed where standard English uses my or I.
• HiA common emphatic particle with no specific semantic content, used frequently for rhythm…
• A rattle of the ceann between the suileA headbutt.
• Between hoppin' and trottin'Amid all the toing and froing.