Pure cat

n.

Heard in Meath and Sligo

Extremely poor quality, dreadful, or awful.

In use

Don't bother goin' to see that film, it's pure cat!

Posh English

Do not trouble yourself attending that motion picture, for it is thoroughly appalling.

Same phrase, other counties

  • CatOf extremely poor quality, dreadful, or thoroughly awful.
  • Cat melodeonAwful, terrible, very bad. Often just left as 'cat'. Sounds like 'melojen'.
  • Cat malojanHaving undesirable or negative qualities. Cat is also used in Armagh / Sligo and other…
  • Pure stinkSomething that is thoroughly unpleasant or of very poor quality.
  • Cat melojenDescribing something utterly atrocious, ancient, or of dreadfully poor quality. Melojen…
  • Cat malogenTerrible, awful, or disastrous.