eejit, n. dial. (chiefly Anglo-Irish).
(ˈiːdʒɪt)
Also eediot, eegit, etc.
[Repr. regional pronunc.: cf. nidget n.1]
= idiot n.
| 1897 R. L. Stevenson St. Ives x. 66 And diagnosed me for a ‘gesterin' eediot’. 1919 Dialect Notes V. 39 Eegit,..idiot. ‘He's a plum eegit.’ 1955 J. P. Donleavy Ginger Man xv. 155 Nine years in the textile trade taking guff from these awful eejits and not even a raise. 1964 E. O'Brien Girls in Married Bliss x. 143 The eejit doesn't know Greeks from Blacks. 1977 Transatlantic Rev. LX. 165 ‘You're the right eejit,’ my father would say to him. ‘And the right bloody hypocrite.’ 1990 Independent 7 June (World Cup Suppl.) p. i/2 Father's decision is final. Yup, that's him, slumped in front of the telly like an eejit. |
Hence ˈeejity a., idiotic.
| 1964 E. O'Brien Girls in Married Bliss vii. 85 One of those eejity coats with a flared skirt and fur collar. 1982 M. Binchy Light Penny Candle ii. xii. 271, I said there was nothing in it, I was only repeating eejity old things. |