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Aug 7, 2006 16:59
18 yrs ago
English term

gobshite

May offend English to Russian Art/Literary Slang
Slang term - originally Irish - for someone who talks a lot of nonsense.

Discussion

Libero_Lang_Lab (asker) Aug 7, 2006:
register it's highly colloquial, is not too polite given the semantic derivation (gob = mouth, shite = shit... hence it basically means shitmouth... someone who talks a lot of shit, in fact), and is fairly regionally marked as it is most likely to be heard in ireland or scotland.

Proposed translations

+4
11 mins
Selected

варианты ->

балабол -> болтун -> трепло -> брехло -> пи**юк -> пи**обол -> троцкий
Peer comment(s):

agree Kirill Semenov : Логический ряд сомнителен, мягко говоря. А Троцкий-то чем виноват? ;-)
4 mins
Спасибо:) "Пи**ит, как Троцкий"
agree Nik-On/Off : я - за предпоследний "термин" :)
29 mins
Спасибо:)
agree Sergei Tumanov
36 mins
Спасибо:)
agree Sabina Metcalf : Стоит отдать должное отвечающему за подборку столь разных вариантов. А выбор наиболее приемлемого зависит от контекста, наверно. Вариант "троцкий" и иже с ним значительно расширили мой словарный запас.
48 mins
Спасибо:)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+2
4 mins

трепач

Словарь Ушакова
ТРЕПАЧ
2. Тот, кто треплется (см. трепаться в 6 знач.; простореч. вульг. презрит.). Стану я с таким трепачом разговаривать!
http://ushdict.narod.ru/230/w69123.htm
Peer comment(s):

agree Alexander Onishko : "трепло" ;)
2 mins
Thank you
agree Natalie Lyssova : трепло
15 hrs
also possible, thanks Natalie
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+3
6 mins

пустобрёх

Following you description of the meaning, but I don't feel the `register' of the source English without more context.
Peer comment(s):

agree Marina Aleyeva : a more classical-sounding version, along the lines of пустозвон, пустомеля
7 mins
отличные варианты, "пустомеля" особенно.
agree erika rubinstein
40 mins
agree Sabina Metcalf : пустомеля хорош, ага.
49 mins
весьма-с :)
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+1
2 hrs

мудозвон

It's more offensive than пустомеля, пустозвон and трепло, but a lot more acceptable than пи**юк that a colleague suggested. It's rather ironic (literally, the one who rings one's private parts), a little bit archaic (as a compensation for not being regionally marked), both colloquial and largely used in all kinds of literature. Means a person talking bullshit on a permanent basis.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2006-08-07 19:37:45 GMT)
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Словарь русского арго has this to say:
http://slovari.gramota.ru/portal_sl.html?d=elistratov&s=��������
Peer comment(s):

agree tanyazst
13 hrs
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