graosta

Irish

Etymology

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Adjective

graosta

1. lewd, obscene, filthy, smutty

Derived terms

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of graosta

radical	lenition	eclipsis
graosta	ghraosta	ngraosta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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