Cat mologen

n.

Heard in Tipperary and Cork

Utterly terrible or appalling.

In use

My god that dinner was cat Mologen. He must have used spuds from the famine.

Posh English

Good heavens, that dinner was perfectly appalling. The fellow must surely have sourced potatoes dating from the famine.

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