Citations:gobaloon


 * 1) an oaf or fool
 * 2) *1964 December 15, Joseph Lenehan Dáil debates Vol.213 c.1014
 * I cannot visualise he situation in which, say, a solicitor would hand over his practice to the biggest gobaloon of his family even though he never attempted to qualify as a solicitor. Yet if we are to accept what we are told here, it seems that where land, our most important asset, is concerned, the biggest fool in Europe can own it, use it, misuse it or not use it at all.
 * 1) *1972 March 21, Joseph Lenehan, Dáil debates Vol.259 c.2020:
 * I have as much right as you have. I have as much right as a big, fatheaded "gobbaloon", wherever you come from.
 * 1) *1979 May 3, Richie Ryan Dáil debates Vol.314 c.1846:
 * If they had simply voted down the vote of no confidence I would say, "So be it. We know that the figures are there". But they have the audacity to drive their 84 gobbaloons into this House asking them to express confidence in them.
 * 1) *1988 Kevin Boland, Under contract with the enemy p.73
 * This was a matter for legislators, not gobaloons.
 * 1) *2014 July 16, Paddy Finnegan, quoted in "Poet, linguist and well-known seller of the 'Big Issue'" The Irish Times:
 * I do not compete with the internal combustion engine and the other unpleasant street noises ... there are enough lunatics, winos and gobbaloons roaring and shouting to themselves. I should not like to be confused with one of those.
 * 1) *2014 Tara Flynn You're Grand: The Irishwoman's Secret Guide to Life p.76 (Hachette UK ISBN 1444797727)
 * A grumpy taxi driver will mainly say things like “This shower” or “Pile of gobballoons” in some kind of unflattering reference to the government.
 * 1) a frightening or terrible thing
 * 2) * 2003 Ray Cranley Chip Chop Cherry p.119 ISBN 1412016029
 * Jakers, wasn't that a right gobaloon of a yoke!
 * 1) insane, crazy
 * 2) * 2006 Jane Harris The Observations p.5 ISBN 0571267688
 * This way and that she went, waggling her hands in the air and every so often clapping. At first I thought she was gobaloon but then I looked over the wall and seen she was only chasing a pig.
 * 1) * 2006 ibid. p.376
 * But a growing part of me knew that she was talking nonsense. Dear God, it was gobaloon! That was the only word for it.