Cat melodeon

exp.

Heard in Roscommon and Cork

Awful, terrible, very bad. Often just left as 'cat'. Sounds like 'melojen'.

In use

Roscommon were cat today in the football." "The weather is cat melodeon altogether.

Posh English

The county team was truly dreadful at the association football today.

Same phrase, other counties

  • CatCat means bad, but append melodeon (pronounced malojan) and it means something is…
  • Cat melojenDescribing something utterly atrocious, ancient, or of dreadfully poor quality. Melojen…
  • Cat malojanHaving undesirable or negative qualities. Cat is also used in Armagh / Sligo and other…
  • Cat malogenTerrible, awful, or disastrous.
  • Pure catTerrible or awful.
  • That's catTerrible, awful or catastrophic in nature.