graosta

Irish

Etymology

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Adjective

graosta

1. lewd, obscene, filthy, smutty

Derived terms

• graostacht (“lewdness, obscenity, filthiness; bawdy talk”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
graosta	ghraosta	ngraosta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “graosta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN