bog Irish en · NOUN
Etymology
From bog + Irish.
Meanings
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(derogatory, plural, plural-only) People of low-class Irish ancestry.
“Ye stupid, stupid, bloody woman,” he said. “I'd forgive ye if it was the first time and put it down to pure, unadulterated, bog Irish buck ignorance, but it's not bloody well the first time, and ye knew exactly what ye were up to. Didn't ye? Didn't ye?"
2013, Patrick Taylor, Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor: An Irish Country Novel, →ISBN, page 42:My friends dismissed him as a Kerry sheep thief and a bog Irish gombeen man.
2010, Andrew M. Greeley, Irish Crystal: A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel, →ISBN, page 165:'Your fucking Jocky ancestors were forming a football team in Glasgow around that time,' he said. 'God bless them. They were bog Irish like my own, with hardly a kilo of potatoes between the lot of them.'.
2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 35: