Pure cat

exp.

Heard in Sligo and Meath

Terrible or awful.

In use

It's bin rainin' for 3years straight." "That's pure cat.

Posh English

It has been raining incessantly for three whole years. How perfectly dreadful.

Same phrase, other counties

  • Cat melodeonAwful, terrible, very bad. Often just left as 'cat'. Sounds like 'melojen'.
  • CatCat means bad, but append melodeon (pronounced malojan) and it means something is…
  • Cat malogenTerrible, awful, or disastrous.
  • That's catTerrible, awful or catastrophic in nature.
  • Cat malojanHaving undesirable or negative qualities. Cat is also used in Armagh / Sligo and other…
  • Pure dirtUtterly useless or terrible, used to convey strong negativity.