Guff

v.

Heard in Donegal, Kilkenny, Galway and Tipperary

To be cheeky or to answer someone back.

In use

Th'on youngfilla is givin his aulfilla wile guff

Posh English

That young fellow is giving his father an awful lot of cheek.

Same phrase, other counties

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