Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Ireland UK slang moderately offensive English) One who engages in nonsensical chatter or unwanted conversation. 2 (context Ireland UK slang moderately offensive English) A person of very poor judgment and unpleasant character.
Usage examples of "gobshite".
Aloysious Crossan had made a gobshite of himself when the going had got tough.
Now are you going to sit there staring like a gobshite or are you going to offer me a thimble of tea or something?
Here I am like a gobshite giving you a pile of money so as you can piss off out from under the Egans.
Anyone who would do that is a gobshite of a lower order than the Englishman that buys him.
There was some muscle-bound gobshite leaning out of an American sports car firing off a machine gun.
No sooner had Tom arrived, complete with his rocker, cot, playpens and goodness knows what else, than Katherine announced that she too was moving back home with her baby because her gobshite of a husband had left, this time for good.
For all he cursed the big German for a fattened, drunken papist gobshite, he was a frighteningly smart man when he sobered up.
He had called him a miserable perverted gobshite cunt and trusted to the slur in his voice and speed in his delivery to obscure the meaning.
Imagine these gobshites trying to drive a wedge between me and the wife, and now me and you.
I think we ought to have compulsory education for gobshites like you who spent so much time blitzed on model airplane glue that they never set foot in school more than a couple of weeks a year.
Some gombeen with a torch stumbles onto the arsonist at work, and in the process manages to make the officer in charge--himself, as it happened--look like a totally incompetent gobshite.
Omally, Catholic, Im not letting that gobshite at the Mission get one over on the Church, I hate him!