Did you know I named a pick-up band “The Scutterin Gobshites” once? The dance master had no clue at all and kept grandly reintroducing us to everyone. He just loved saying it.
“Scutter” and “scutterin(g)” refers to projectile diarrhea. Everyone else may as well know. A gobshite? Although I have my ideas, I’m not precisely sure of the image, but it’s probabbly close in intent to the Spanish “pendejo”, or the English “total freakin’ idiot loser”. I don’t think “popinjay”, “jackanapes”, or “cad” quite convey the vitriol.
NOUN:
Chiefly British Slang
A person regarded as mean or contemptible.
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps ultimately from obsolete gobshite, wad of expectorated chewing tobacco or tobacco juice : gob 2 + dialectal shite, excrement (from Middle English shiten, to defecate, from Old English *sctan; see skei- in Indo-European roots)
Gob is also slang for mouth. I think the term makes pretty good sense if that’s what was meant. You don’t here gob much these days but it was common when I was a lad.
Fortunately, we’re not confused about you. You’re one of those Floridian “bronzed goddesses” whose windswept blonde hair shines like Aztec gold in the tropic sun.
Like, less pro-active than a corner-boy or bowsy, but not really a long gander either. There may be a reference to the type in “Songs of the Downtrodden but Immensely Quaint Iwish Cheppies” by C. Sharp in the English Folk Dance and Song Society Libwawy. To get Cecil Sharp back to a more natural condition, just keep your fingerings crossed.