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Irish bull

noun

Definitions

  1. A ludicrous, incongruent or logically absurd statement.

    • Like the argot once confined to a class, some of his phrases have become part of the general idiom. A Dundrearyism can be recognized as soon as uttered, like an Irish bull.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Irish bull. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA