Reagan Democrat

en-noun

Reagan Democrat (plural Reagan Democrats)

Undoubtedly, there were some who thought that the party, once defined and consolidated, would appeal to “Reagan Democrats,” but there were also many who thought that the liberal groups dominating the party could easily splinter into diverse interest groups if not afforded the opportunity to come together as one.

2020, Theodore F. Sheckels, The Rhetoric of the American Political Party Conventions, 1948–2016, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 103:

(US politics, historical) A moderate and conservative Democrat, in the south and midwest, many of whom had previously supported conservative Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace for President of the USA, who supported the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984.


Octomom

(informal) American woman Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to octuplets in 2009.


Shitler

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Shitler.wav

(informal, vulgar, derogatory, sometimes humorous) Adolf Hitler.


MTG

Magic: The Gathering
w:Magic: The Gathering

(fantasy) Initialism of Magic: The Gathering.

Marjorie Taylor Greene
w:Marjorie Taylor Greene

(politics, US politics) Initialism of Marjorie Taylor Greene.


Musketeer

This was the rock that Musk and his Musketeers planned to build their company on.

2014, Charles Morris, "The early days of Tesla", Charged: Electric Vehicles Magazine, Issue 14, June/July 2014, page 62

Mr Vance comes across as a “Musketeer”, someone who believes in Mr Musk’s power to reshape the world.

2015 July 4, “Fortune favours the brave”, in The Economist:

(informal) A fan, supporter or partisan of Elon Musk.


Obamacan

“About twice as many Democrats support McCain as Republicans support Obama, and about three times as many Democrats support McCain as Republicans support Clinton,” Rove said. “The media is all wired up about these ‘Obamacans’ … but the real story of this election is the ‘McCainocrats.’ ”

2008 April 21, John Heilemann, “Is John McCain Bob Dole?”, in New York:

However, it became increasingly bleak for Senator McCain's campaign as many of Senator Obama's endorsements came from "Obamacans."

2010, Clinton L. Sprauve, All Hail the "Messiah": Why Fox News Channel and the Conservative Clan Couldn't Crucify Him!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, pages 49–50:

To my knowledge, there were no “Obamacans” in my family; all of the Republicans were sticking with Senator John McCain.

2012, Joan Walsh, What's the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was, John Walsh, →ISBN:

(US politics, slang) A member of the U.S. Republican Party who supports or supported the election of Barack Obama as president.


Obamacon

Kmiec has drawn attention because he is one of the nation's leading "Obamacons," conservatives who find Obama's call for a new approach to politics appealing.

2008 June 3, E. J. Dionne Jr., “For an 'Obamacon,' Communion Denied”, in The Washington Post:

The rise of the Obamacons is more than a reaction against Mr Bush's remodelling of the Republican Party and Mr McCain's desperation: there were plenty of disillusioned Republicans in 2004 who did not warm to John Kerry.

2008 October 23, “The rise of the Obamacons”, in The Economist:

Even New York Times Obamacon David Brooks acknowledged ObamaCare was "stuffed. . . .with gimmicks and dodges designed to get a good score from the Congressional Budget Office but don't genuinely control runaway spending."

2010, David Limbaugh, Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama, Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 69:

(US, politics, slang) A conservative (especially a Republican) who supports or supported the election of Barack Obama as president.


Flansy

(informal) American musician John Flansburgh.


Hemingway

[…] few of these boys know how to fight alone, and hardly any without a knife or a gun. They are not to be equated with matadors or boxers or Hemingway heroes. They are dangerous pack hounds who will not even expose themselves singly in the outfield.

1962, Arthur Miller, “The Bored and the Violent”, in Herbert Gold, editor, First Person Singular: Essays for the Sixties, New York: Dial, published 1963, page 181:

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist.


Enkidu

From Akkadian 𒂗𒆠𒆕 (EN.KI.DÙ, literally “Enki's creation”).

der

Companion of Gilgamesh in the poem Epic of Gilgamesh from ancient Mesopotamia.


Hamletic

en-adj

Hamletic (comparative more Hamletic, superlative most Hamletic)

more Hamletic (comparative)
most Hamletic (superlative)

From the name of Hamlet, William Shakespeare character, + -ic.

The conventional Hamletic interpretation of Stephen's thought establishes Haines as the British master, Buck as his gay attendant, and Stephen as the jester, the docile subject to the whims of both.

1999, Gian Balsamo, Pruning the Genealogical Tree: Procreation and Lineage, in Literature, Law […] :

2008 (published), Robert B. Heilman, The Ghost on the Ramparts and Other Essays in the Humanities
Invariably anything Hamletic intimates a large world and major problems, and who could question the rightness of this suggestion for the humanities, in academe or outside?

Undecided; hesitating; uncertain; vacillating.


Sam-Cam

(informal) Samantha Cameron (born 1971), English businesswoman and wife of politician David Cameron.


K-Stew

(informal) Kristen Stewart (born 1990), American actress.


Scar-Jo

/ˈskɑː(ɹ)ˌdʒəʊ/


Li-Lo

From the first syllables of her name and surname.

(informal) Lindsay Lohan (born 1986), American actress and singer.


R-Pattz

(informal) Robert Pattinson (born 1986), English actor


J-Lo

From her first initial and the first syllable of her surname. As a noun, after the widely appealing features of Lopez's buttocks.

Nothing says J-Lo is back like a slinky, drapey dresslike garment and plenty of sideboob.

2009 January 11, “Red-hot carpet gowns”, in Metro Boston, MA:

(informal, also attributive) Jennifer Lopez (born 1969), American singer and actress.


K-Rod

(informal) Francisco Rodríguez (baseball player)


A-Rod

(informal) Alex Rodriguez (baseball player)


Su-Bo

From the first two letters of each of her first and last names.


Le-Le

From the initial syllables of her first and last names.


hopenosis

Blend of hope + hypnosis, in reference to the Barack Obama "Hope" poster.

But what should the Obama Cult do now? The man has turned off the switch on the "Hopenosis" and has revealed the "Change Brigade" for the useful idiots they were.

2009 January 22, Alex Knepper, “Obama's cabinet appointments contradict with message”, in The Mirror (Fairfield University), volume 34, number 15, page 3:

they've all by ^([sic]) hopenotized by the hopenosis of the obamanation.

2009 February 27, AllEmailDeletedImmediately [username], “Re: What's Up With Food Prices?”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, rare, derogatory) Credulous political enthusiasm for Barack Obama.


Asparukh

From Byzantine Greek Ἀσπαρούχ (Asparoúkh), from Bulgar, from Alanic Æspӕruk; see there for more.

the name of а ruler of Bulgars in the second half of the 7th century AD


Yeezy

Diminutive of the second syllable of Kanye.

(slang) Kanye West (born 1977), American rap musician.


Ney

* As an English surname, variant of Nye.
* As a Scottish Gaelic and Irish surname, from the source of McNee.
* As a north German and Jewish surname, variant of Neu. Sometimes shortened from Neuberger.

A nickname of Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, a Brazilian footballer born in 1992


Plautus

From Latin Titus Maccius Plautus, the latter two names traditionally held to be stage names, from plautus (“flat-footed, flap-eared”).

A Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) of the Old Latin period.


Lysander

Lysander
Lysander (disambiguation)
Westland Lysander

From Ancient Greek Λῠ́σᾰνδρος (Lúsandros).

A British military aircraft used during World War II


Antinous

/ænˈtɪnəʊəs/

From the Ancient Greek Ἀντίνοος (Antínoos).

(history) A Bithynian Greek youth and lover of Roman Emperor Hadrian.

(history, astronomy) A constellation created by the emperor Hadrian, now considered by astronomers to be a part of Aquila.


Antinous

/ænˈtɪnəʊəs/


J-Law

(informal) Jennifer Lawrence (born 1990), American actress.


hyperloop

Musk began developing another transportation project in 2012, something he calls the Hyperloop.

2012, Scott Griffiths, Eric Elfman, Beyond Genius, →ISBN, page 210:

Whatever – the result is the same: they usually jump in front of the nearest hyperloop shuttle.

2014, Gideon Defoe, Elite Dangerous: Docking is Difficult, →ISBN:

There is a small handful of groups working in earnest on making Elon Musk's dream of a hyperloop a reality, but none are so high profile as Hyperloop Technologies.

2015 September 16, Casey Newton, “Hyperloop Technologies has a CEO — and plans to open its test track next year”, in The Verge:

Then in 2013 we all find out who Elon Musk is, the Tesla, Space X^([sic]) and hyperloop guy.

2015, Landry Hunt, Jeremiah Nichols, The System, →ISBN:

Will the fate of the hyperloop concept be different from the maglev and be introduced quickly and successfully on the market?

2015, S. Van Themsche, The Advent of Unmanned Electric Vehicles, →ISBN, page 369:

Musk also features in the other piece of bad news for the tech enthusiasts - the effective collapse of the hyperloop, as the technical limitations of the idea have become all too apparent. [...] Firstly, in February, Virgin announced it was abandoning plans to create a passenger-carrying hyperloop system and made the 100 staff working on the project redundant. Then, early in November, it was revealed that Musk's test tube for hyperloop has been dismantled with no explanation, with the site now being used as a car park.

2022 November 30, Christian Wolmar, “The railway endures as driverless cars hit the buffers...”, in RAIL, number 971, page 57:

A theoretical high-speed transportation system, proposed by Elon Musk, in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors through reduced-pressure tubes.


Rambam

From Hebrew רַמְבַּ״ם (rambam), acronym of רַבִּי מֹשֶׁה בֶּן מַיְמוֹן (rabí moshé ben maymón, “Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon”).

Maimonides, a 12th-century Jewish philosopher.


Paxo

He's been telling his army of spinners, and DC and Boy George too, that Radio 4 is for the chattering classes, and only people like Cameron and Miliband tune in to watch Paxo on Newsnight last thing at night.

2011, Larry the Cat, The Larry Diaries: Downing Street - The First 100 Days, page 15:

(British, slang) Jeremy Paxman (born 1950), English broadcaster, journalist and author.


Kumārajīva

Buddhist monk (334–413 CE), scholar and translator from the Kingdom of Kucha, mostly remembered for translating Buddhist texts written in Sanskrit to Chinese.


Teslaphile

Teslaphiles are also eagerly awaiting the release of the Model X, which is currently teased on the manufacturer’s website.

2014 August 6, Ben Geier, “Tesla says it has resolved a Chinese trademark dispute”, in Fortune:

While we were topping off the Tesla at the Supercharger in Gilroy, California, the gathered Teslaphiles laughed at the i8’s minuscule trunk.

2014 August 11, “2014 Tesla Model S P85+ vs. 2014 BMW i8 Comparison”, in Motor Trend:

As Teslaphiles like to say: “Elon Musk didn’t set out to make the best luxury electric car, he set out to make the best car.”

2015 November 4, Henry Payne, “Payne: The Ludicrous Tesla Model S P90D”, in The Detroit News:

An aficionado or fan of Tesla, Inc. or its products, particularly the vehicles.


Cumberbatchian

Cumberbatchian (comparative more Cumberbatchian, superlative most Cumberbatchian)

more Cumberbatchian (comparative)
most Cumberbatchian (superlative)

Sherlock-the-character has a fanatic following, with fans who debate every Cumberbatchian movement and every plot twist with the fervor of grassy-knoll conspiracy buffs.

2014 March 7, Karim Sadli, “The Case of the Accidental Superstar”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine:

Alan Turing in The Imitation Game may be the actor’s oddest, fullest, most Cumberbatchian character yet.

2014 November 20, Richard Corliss, “Review: The Imitation Game: Dancing With Dr. Strange”, in Time:

(Under the name wordstrings, she also writes stories in which the Cumberbatchian Holmes experiences vivid synesthesia and other intense internal effects, some obviously due to diagnosable psychiatric disorders.)

2015, Zach Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, pages 262–263:

Of, relating to, or characteristic of English actor Benedict Cumberbatch.


Sosipater

From Ecclesiastical Latin Sōsipater, from Ancient Greek Σωσῐ́πᾰτρος (Sōsípatros), from σῴζω (sṓizō, “save”) + πᾰτήρ (patḗr, “father”), literally “savior of the father.” The second element takes its form from the native Latin pater (“father”).

compound

(Christianity) A person mentioned in Romans 16:21. Perhaps the same person as Sopater


Bagheera

Bagheera
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book

From Hindi बाघ (bāgh, “tiger”), coined by Rudyard Kipling in The Jungle Book. The scouting term and the cat-name comes from the character name.

The deputy leader of a pack of Cub Scouts.


AB language

Coined in 1929 by J. R. R. Tolkien, from the first letters of Ancrene Wisse and Bodleian Library.

(linguistics) A variety of Middle English found in the Corpus manuscript and characterized by French and Norse loanwords, colloquial expressions, conservative spelling, and similarities to Old English syntax.

AB language
Ancrene Wisse
J. R. R. Tolkien


Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.


Hypatia

From Latin Hypatia, from Ancient Greek Ὑπατία (Hupatía), from ὕπατος (húpatos, “highest, best”).

A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek]


Mercutio

One of the main characters of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.


Sanderista

From Sanders + -ista. Blend of Sanders + Sandinista. Coined in reference to the Sandinistas.

7/83 Space Wars; Micronesia vs. nukes; Green Party & Sanderistas; also Spring Books Pt. 2

1983, WIN: Peace and Freedom Through Non-violent Action, volume 19, Workshop in Nonviolence Institute, page 38:

A special approach of the Sanderista coalition has been to mobilize this complex of popular groups into an independent political force.

In other cases, groups fostered the creation of current organizations and movements, for example, PACT (tenants' rights) in Burlington, Vermont, laid the groundwork for the Sanderistas.

2012, Joan Roelofs, Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism, page 152:

Call it what you will—a Sanderista cult, a brand, a following—Vermonters responded to Sanders.

2015, Harry Jaffe, Why Bernie Sanders Matters:

During the war that continued for the rest of the 1980s, Burlington's Progressives identified strongly with the FSLN, to the point of earning for themselves the nickname "Sanderistas."

2015, Janet Biehl, Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin, page 223:

(US politics, colloquial) A supporter of Bernie Sanders or his political philosophy.


Trumpism

What is Trumpism? Or, to put it more tartly, is there a coherent political philosophy underlying his candidacy?...There can be Reaganism without Reagan. There can be no Trumpism without Trump...Trumpism is not so much a theory of government as a celebration of one individual's claimed capacity to govern.

2015 August 25, Ruth Marcus, “A look inside Trump's political philosophy”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, retrieved 2022-10-02:

Given Latin America's right-wing turn’s affinities with Trumpism, it is tempting to see it as part of the global wave of right-wing populism making its way through the United States and Western Europe.

2018 April 16, Omar G. Encarnación, “The Trumpification of the Latin American Right”, in Foreign Policy:

In fact, when you review the history of Republican climate denial, it looks a lot like Trumpism.

2018 December 3, Paul Krugman, “Climate Denial Was the Crucible for Trumpism”, in New York Times:

A mixture of isolationism, cronyism, nativist rhetoric, somewhat performative authoritarianism, corporate tax cuts and personality cult, Trumpism is what the president says it is.

2020 November 5, “Trump and Trumpism”, in The Economist, →ISSN, retrieved 2022-10-02:

Few are predicting an end to global Trumpism, the nation-first, people-dividing style of governance with a hint of authoritarianism that began to gain traction in Europe and Asia well before Trump's 2016 election.

2020 November 8, “The world's populists are losing their White House ally, but global Trumpism is far from over”, in The Washington Post:

Why Trumpism will endure...Trumpism was a long time coming, and it will be a long time going...The durability of Trump and Trumpism is bringing into harsh relief many of the deeper flaws in the U.S. political system...Emerging class differences had just as much to do with today’s political polarization as race did, and this also helps to explain the continuing populist appeal of Trumpism.

2022 September 4, Michael Hirsh, “Why Trumpism Will Endure”, in Foreign Policy, retrieved 2022-10-02:

The philosophy and politics espoused by Donald Trump.

تِرَمْبِيَّةٌ

the philosophy and politics espoused by Donald Trump


Donald Trumpish

en-adj

Donald Trumpish (comparative more Donald Trumpish, superlative most Donald Trumpish)

more Donald Trumpish (comparative)
most Donald Trumpish (superlative)


Trumpish

Trumpish (comparative more Trumpish, superlative most Trumpish)

more Trumpish (comparative)
most Trumpish (superlative)

Similar to Donald Trump in action, speech, or style.


Donald Trumpesque

Donald Trumpesque (comparative more Donald Trumpesque, superlative most Donald Trumpesque)

more Donald Trumpesque (comparative)
most Donald Trumpesque (superlative)


Trumpesque

Trumpesque (comparative more Trumpesque, superlative most Trumpesque)

more Trumpesque (comparative)
most Trumpesque (superlative)

The day before Trump was presented as an egg on legs in the New York Post, the paper celebrated the re-election of Ron DeSantis, the Trump-esque Florida governor rumored to be planning a presidential run, with a front page which declared him “DeFuture”.

2022 November 10, Adam Gabbatt, “Has ‘Trumpty Dumpty’ taken a great fall from Rupert Murdoch’s grace?”, in The Guardian:


Donald Trumpian

Donald Trumpian (comparative more Donald Trumpian, superlative most Donald Trumpian)

more Donald Trumpian (comparative)
most Donald Trumpian (superlative)

Unfortunately, frequent heartburn is a common occurrence during many pregnancies, not just for moms who give birth to babies with Donald Trumpian locks.

2006, Carley Roney, The Nest Newlywed Handbook: An Owner's Manual for Modern Married Life, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 212:

A middle-aged man with a Donald Trumpian comb-over sat at the curb in an expensive Lexus.

2008, Scott Sherman, First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery, Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 106:


Dalí

From Catalan Dalí, possibly from dalí (“stick for fording”), from Arabic دَلِيل (dalīl, “sign, guide”).


Tamerlane

From Persian تیمور لنگ (teymur-(e) lang, literally “Timur the Lame”). Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *temür (“iron”). See Turkish demir for more information.

uder

a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia


Ephialtes

From Ancient Greek Ἐφιάλτης (Ephiáltēs).

Éphialtès

either the ancient Greek statesman or a mythological Giant


Trumpist

The centrão secured the firing of the Trumpist foreign minister, Ernesto Araújo, for his failure to buy vaccines;

2021 April 10, “Brazil’s army is trying to distance itself from Jair Bolsonaro”, in The Economist:

[...] people dressed in Trumpist apparel, waving Trump flags, and chanting Trumpist slogans stormed the Capitol building.

2023 May 23, Nathan L. King, Keith D. Wyma, “Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, and Intellectual Character”, in Michael W. Austin, Gregory L. Bock, editors, QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross: Christianity and Conspiracy Theories, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

Not every right-wing judge is as blatantly ideological in their decision making as Kacsmaryk, nor is every Republican appointee a Trumpist zealot.

2024 [2023 December 5], Adam Serwer, “A MAGA Judiciary”, in The Atlantic, volume 333, number 1, →ISSN, page 41:

(politics) Pertaining to or resembling characteristics of Trumpism. Synonym of Trumpian.


Trumpist

(US politics) An admirer or fan of Donald Trump.

2016 November 18, “Neil Woodford: right-wing Trumpists could topple euro”, in CityWire (UK):

He [Scott Morrison] remains afraid of the far-right extremist fringe dwellers who make up the bedrock of his personal support and who he cultivates through the avatars of Trumpists and conspiracy theorists like Craig Kelly and George Christensen.

2021 April 10, “'PM afraid of the far-right extremists, Trumpists and conspiracy theorists': Albanese”, in Sky News Australia:

(politics) A person exhibiting characteristics of Trumpism.


Rhazes

From Latin Rhazes, from Arabic اَلرَّازِي (ar-rāzī), from Persian رازی (râzi), a surname meaning "from Ray".

An 8th/9th-century Persian polymath and physician; Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī.


Wace

A Jersey-born writer of the 12th century.


Kiplingese

Language characteristic of the writer Rudyard Kipling, characterized by realism, jingoism, etc.


putinisation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-putinisation.wav

From Putin + -ise + -ation or Putinise + -ation.

(politics, British spelling) The taking over of power utilizing allegedly undemocratic means.


Ausonius

Decimus Magnus Ausonius, a 4th-century Roman poet.


Acoetes

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) One of several mythological characters.

One of several mythological characters.
An attendant of Bacchus.


Constable

A town in Franklin County, New York; named for landowner William Constable.


Cassini

Giovanni Domenico Cassini, an Italian astronomer.


BoJo

(UK politics, slang) The British politician and journalist Boris Johnson (born 1964), Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022.


Putinian

en-adj

Putinian (comparative more Putinian, superlative most Putinian)

more Putinian (comparative)
most Putinian (superlative)

Last but not least, and in the long term, this would mean that the Kremlin eventually has to give up its Putinian delusions of rebuilding the Russian empire.

2022 March 4, Timothy Garton Ash, “In this moment of crisis, opening the door to Ukraine is one thing the EU can do”, in The Guardian:

Of or relating to Vladimir Putin (born 1952), 2nd and 4th President of Russia.


Cheggers

From Chegwin + -ers; from the BBC's Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1976–82).

Little Cheggers, his mobile henchman, laughs, gurgles and beats his tiny fists together like a baby on the old-fashioned Cow and Gate tins.

1977 December 9, Michael Church, “Multi-coloured Swap Shop”, in The Times, page 15:

(British, informal) Keith Chegwin (1957–2017), English actor and TV presenter.


Antipater

(historical) A Macedonian general in the time of Alexander the Great.


Theron

Borrowed from Latin Thērōn, in turn from Ancient Greek Θήρων (Thḗrōn).

Theron of Akragas (died 473 BC), a tyrant of Akragas in Sicily.


Theron

From Occitan toponyms derived from Latin torus, thorus (“embankment, elevation”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to extend, to stretch out”).
 Made known in the Afrikaans form by the below actress.

der

Charlize Theron (born 1975), South African actress.


Dear Abby

An advice column written under the pen name Abigail Van Buren.


Igraine

(Arthurian legend) The mother of King Arthur.


Geronimo

A prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe (1829–1909).

A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Jerome


Geronimo

Alternative letter-case form of geronimo


Bushtard

Notice Bushtards have given up on even trying to defend Bush's intelligence and just resort to mud-slinging? That debate pretty much sealed the deal on his intellectual capabilities.

2004 October 4, Tim Farrow, “Undecided voter?”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

And our life isn't exactly revered by the Bushtards.

2006 September 10, zakintosh, “They're back, with a vengenace!”, in Windmills of My Mind:

The Bushtards have gone to great lengths to change the balance of wealth in this country for a result like this to not be intentional.

2007 March 12, Robert Peard, “The Bushtard War On The Poor: Thousands Lose Medicaide.”, in The Conservatard:

Iran is nothing more than an excuse for the Bushtards to yell for another conquest.

2007 April 3, Chad Bryant, “Iran kidnaps British soldiers... and it's all the US's fault!”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

Of course, the corruption and incompetence of Bush does not justify the corruption and incompetence of Obama, but please try to acknowledge the former's failures before ripping into his successor. (This is unnecessary for me, since I freely criticized Bush and called for his impeachment, but you are a Bushtard.)

2013 April 6, Dänk 42Ø, “Re: ANOTHER Green Company Goes Down - Thanks Obama for Wasting Our Money”, in alt.society.liberalism (Usenet):

Tomorrow, Donald Trump should win Florida eliminating the last of these Bushtards (Marc-go Rubio) that irritate me so much from consideration for the Republican Party.

2016 March 16, “The Enemy of My Enemy”, in Voltaire Politics:

Liberals knew powell was full of crap WAAAAAY back in 2001, when trumptards like bigdog were bushtards and wetting their diapers over every word that came out of the texas tard's warmongering ass.

2021 October 19, Molly Bolt, “RINO Colin Powell kicks the bucket”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):

(US, slang, derogatory) A supporter of George W. Bush.


K-Mid

K-Mid’s look was completed with grey Rupert Sanderson high heels. Unusually, her hair was curled beneath the brim for the Queen’s Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey.

2016, Joely Chilcott, Fifty shades of K: Duchess shows her greys in drab hat and coat (in The Sun newspaper)

(UK, slang) Kate Middleton, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.


Zuck

And no matter whom we work for — or whether we’re employed at all — we’re generating value for Bezos and Zuck.

2022 October 28, Malcolm Harris, “Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?”, in New York Magazine:

(informal) Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984), founder of the social network Facebook


Gagarin

Transliteration of Russian Гага́рин (Gagárin).

transliteration

Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut and first man in space.

Гага́рин Гагарин#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian surname Гага́рин (Gagárin).


Godiva

Latinised from the Old English female given name Godġifu (literally “God gift”), from god + ġifu. Doublet of Goody, Goodey.

An 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode unclothed through the streets of Coventry to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation that her husband had imposed on his tenants.


(US politics, slang) Joe Biden, as the forty-sixth president of the United States.


Hypsipyle

From Latin Hypsipylē and its etymon, the Ancient Greek Ῠ̔ψῐπῠ́λη (Hupsipúlē).

(Greek mythology) The daughter of Thoas and Myrina, queen of Lemnos at the time of the curse by Aphrodite, the island’s subsequent androcide, and the Argonauts’ two-year sojourn on the island, during which time she bore Jason twin sons.


Thatcher effect

Named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), whose image was used as an example.

named-after

The phenomenon whereby it is more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside-down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face.


Thatcher illusion

Named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013).

optical illusion
optical illusion#English

The optical illusion resulting from the Thatcher effect.


Obamabot

(US politics, derogatory or humorous) A supporter of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.


Tuffers

(slang) Phil Tufnell (born 1966), English cricketer and television personality.


good night, sweet prince

From Shakespeare's Hamlet (act V scene ii), in which Horatio utters the line to his dying friend Hamlet.


Bieberish

en-adj

Bieberish (comparative more Bieberish, superlative most Bieberish)

more Bieberish (comparative)
most Bieberish (superlative)

Lots of girls in our school think he's cute because of his Bieberish hairstyle.

(informal) Similar to or resembling Justin Bieber.


Bieberism

(informal, rare) The fandom of Justin Bieber.


Bieberesque

Bieberesque (comparative more Bieberesque, superlative most Bieberesque)

more Bieberesque (comparative)
most Bieberesque (superlative)

a Bieberesque teen with bangs in his eyes and hair on his shoulders

2013, Chuck Thompson, “Religion”, in Better Off Without 'Em, pages 24–25:

[Y]ou whisper in your wristwatch receptor: "Beam me out, Justin!" (...[I]n the near future, your mate will change his name to something less Bieberesque.)

2014, Mark Brake, “Teleportation”, in Mark Brake's Space, Time, Machine, Monster, page 63:

To the tune of Bieber's 'Despacito', he criticizes Trump by singing 'Desperate Cheeto' while wearing a blond Bieberesque wig.

2020, Lyndon Way, Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture:

(informal) In the style or manner of Justin Bieber.


Belieberism

Among my faves this Christmas were two Justin Bieber tunes. Experts also found that Belieberism takes control of the subject's mind and strives to infect as many people as possible.

2012, Maria-Elana Kassab, "Treble Clef", RAGMAG, March 2012, pag e 48

Yet this no more means anti-Semitism is rampant in France than that Belieberism has infected the United States.

2014 January 3, Robert Zaretzky, “How 'Quenelle' Salute Creator Dieudonne Built Bridge to Anti-Semitic Far Fight”, in Jewish Daily Forward:

The first non-Purpose performance of the night was the Bieber classic "Boyfriend," and at this, the crowd perked up; Belieberism is strongly rooted in its original texts.

2016 March 10, Dylan Rupert, “Justin Bieber Finds New 'Purpose' at Seattle Tour Kickoff”, in Billboard:

(informal, rare) The fan phenomenon of Justin Bieber viewed as a religion or epidemic.


Trumponomics

The managerial precepts popularized by Donald Trump in the mid-2000s (decade) in his books and reality TV shows

Sure, the guy is by far the biggest employer and financial force in Atlantic City and southern New Jersey and Trumponomics is a major concern to the city and the region.

1990 April 9, Martin DeAngelis, “Don't Worry About Donald Trump's Money; Worry About Your Own”, in The Press of Atlantic City:

2005, November 14, Mary Umberger, "Trumponomics 101", Houston Chronicle

While Trump has not provided specifics much beyond the 'Make America Great Again' slogan featured on his often-present baseball cap, strands of Trumponomics have trickled out amid the stream of braggadocio and ad-hominem attacks on his critics.

2015 August 17, “Donald Trump's Economic Muddle”, in Qatar Tribune:

The trouble is, the choice is a dismal one. If you think Corbynomics is wacky, take a look at Trumponomics.

2015, December 15, Matthew Lynn, "Whoever wins the US presidency, the economy is going to be the loser", The Daily Telegraph

ONE of The Donald's trump cards, if you will forgive the pun, is the economy - what he calls Trumponomics. In the finest traditions of the Republican Party he would take an axe to tax.

2016, March 4, Chris Roycroft-Davis, "His economic plan could be a trump card for Donald", The Express (London)

Yes, I know there`s a Moody`s study claiming that Trumponomics would be a yuuge job destroyer, but I really don`t know where they got that result; the best guess seems to be that they`re assuming that former spending on imports just goes away, which is not a good assumption.

2016 April 9, awouk [username], “Paul Krugman Blog: Why Cruz Is Worse Than Trump”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):

Trumponomics consists of three main elements: big tax cuts that are skewed toward the rich; drastic immigration reform, including the deportation of millions of undocumented workers; and protectionist measures, like hefty tariffs on goods from China and Mexico.

2016 June 21, John Cassidy, “Getting Serious About Trumponomics”, in The New Yorker:

Of course, that’s what they all say. But Trumponomics goes beyond the usual Republican assertions that cutting taxes on corporations and the rich, ending environmental regulation and so on will conjure up the magic of the marketplace and make everyone prosper.

2016 July 4, Paul Krugman, “Trump, Trade and Workers”, in The New York Times:

Just like Teddy Roosevelt before them, Donald J. Trump, Lou Dobbs and other proponents of Trumponomics seem to admire the fierce economic efficiency of Wilhelmine Germany – notably the notion that only the coordinated efforts of a strong, centralized government working hand-in-hand with ‘big business’ can generate trade surpluses over a sustained period.

2017 January 26, M. Nicolas J. Firzli, “'Understanding Trumponomics'”, in Revue Analyse Financière:

The economic ideas and policies of U.S. businessman and president Donald Trump.


Uxbridge

From Wixan + Old English brycg (“bridge”), meaning, "the bridge leading to the Wixan", a Saxon tribe which settled near the Lincolnshire fens.

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, also called Earl of Uxbridge or Lord Uxbridge, British military commander.


bad quarto

The implication is that theatrical practitioners have access to the “bad quarto” that is unmediated by the history of its scholarly reception; these practitioners can therefore be depended upon to discover in their performance of the text the true nature of its origin.

1998, Laurie E. Maguire, Thomas L. Berger, editors, Textual Formations and Reformations, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 59:

A quarto-sized publication of a play, especially a Shakespearean play, that is considered spurious by virtue of having been copied down during a performance or later reconstructed from memory.


Q clearance

(US) A security clearance issued by the United States Department of Energy, allowing access to top-secret material.


Bushie

(US, politics) A political supporter or fan of U.S. President Bush (either Bush 43, or Bush 41, or both Presidents George Bush)


Trumpette

From Trump + -ette. Named after American celebrity, businessman, politician and President Donald Trump

named-after

Toward the end of dinner, my three Trumpettes and I did a "live" iPad interview with Good Morning Great Britain. We enthusiastically told all the Queen's men and women how excited we were and how we knew our man would win.

2019 January 9, Toni Holt Kramer, Unstoppable Me, Dog Ear Publishing, page 360:

Perhaps the Trumpers and Trumpettes should make new hats with MASA — Make America Sick Again.

2020 April 30, Marilyn Sisk, “Sensible steps”, in Traverse City Record Eagle, page 4:

In light of the above, it should be no surprise that white women are the backbone of today’s white nationalist movement. Tradwives, Mommy Vloggers, Trumpettes, and other white women's groups are the hidden movers of today’s white supremacist politics.

2022 May 31, Christina Cavener, “United by White Supremacy: Women's Contributions to a "Whites Only" Citizenship Across the Generations”, in JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN, page 98:

(US politics) A female supporter or fan of Donald Trump, especially during his Presidential campaign to become President of the United States of America


Trumpista

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A Trumpist.


Trumpiness

But if you put all these theories aside, and look instead at his personality, then something different emerges--not Trump, but Trumpiness.

2016, Martin Boroson, “The Rise of Trumpiness”, in Huffington Post:

2016, “The increased Trump-iness of the second debate, in 2 charts”, in Washington Post:

The overwhelming, suffocating, insurmountable Trumpiness may work at some place like Disney World, where the brand stands for decades of family-friendly, unadulterated joy.

2016, Emily Jane Fox, “Trump’S D.C. Hotel is a Frightful Dump — And A Scary Metaphor For The Trump Presidency”, in Vanity Fair:

If there were a cure for Trumpiness, the Koch brothers would be sneaking it into Trump’s soft drinks the way Russian President Vladimir Putin’s agents allegedly sneak polonium-210 into journalists’ cocktails.

2016, Jason Sattler, “Trump finds a foe he can beat in November: Trump”, in Visalia Times-Delta:

(informal) The property of being Trumpy, being like Donald Trump


Trumpy

en-adj

Trumpy (comparative Trumpier, superlative Trumpiest)

Trumpier (comparative)
Trumpiest (superlative)

Trouble was, that made him [Ron DeSantis] too Trumpy for those Republicans eager to move on, and not Trumpy enough for the Maga hardcore.

2024 January 19, Jonathan Freedland, “There is still a way to stop Donald Trump – but time is running out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(informal) Characteristic of Donald Trump.

Trump is in trouble. Trumpy Republicans want the real thing, not an imitation. Non-Trumpy Republicans just aren’t impressed.

2023 August 16, Jonathan Rauch, “Why Not Pence?”, in The Atlantic:

The Senate GOP has gotten much Trumpier in the eight years since Mr. Trump first won office.

2024 November 13, Cameron Joseph, “John Thune’s leadership win shows limits of MAGA’s reach in Senate”, in The Christian Science Monitor:


Trumpy

(informal) A political supporter of Donald Trump.


Trumper

Political observers who say that Youngkin was a Never Trumper — proving the viability of that movement — are deluding themselves. He was a Stealth Trumper and Sorta Trumper who took pains not to offend or alienate Forever Trumpers.

2021 November 3, Frank Bruni, “There’s a New Wizard of Oz. It’s Donald Trump.”, in The New York Times:

But it wasn’t just Mr. Thune’s victory but the poor showing by the MAGA favorite in the race that signaled most Senate Republicans are still a breed apart from hardcore Trumpers.

A political supporter of former president and current president-elect Donald Trump or his MAGA movement.


Trumpean

Trumpean (comparative more Trumpean, superlative most Trumpean)

more Trumpean (comparative)
most Trumpean (superlative)


Drumpf

From German Drumpf, an old form of the surname of the Trump family. Coined by British comedian John Oliver in his February 2016 segment "Donald Trump" of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The form has been confirmed by German officials.

(derogatory, US politics) Nickname for Donald Trump.

Donald Trump (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)


Suckerberg

And tell Mark Suckerberg that I will sue him if he tries to use my student’s pictures again.

2013, Herbert, “Ditch Chris”, in Random Conversations, Partridge India, →ISBN, page 87:

“Suckerberg,” a British woman wrote. “let me guess,” a woman from Washington State wrote, “you guys never really thought of how explosive free speech really was did ya??”

2019, Andrew Marantz, “Common Sense”, in Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, Viking, →ISBN, part six (A Night for Freedom), page 346:

They stopped reading poetry books during Shakespeare’s time and Suckerberg is only 32.

2019, Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, “The Poet’s Revenge To No One Who Buys Poetry Books”, in Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Jabulani Mzinyathi, editors, Zimbolicious Anthology: An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts, volume 4, Chitungwiza: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, →ISBN, page 39:

(slang, derogatory) Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984), founder of social media company Facebook


Philodemus

Borrowed from Latin Philodemus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Φιλόδημος (Philódēmos).

Philodemus of Gadara, an Epicurean philosopher and poet


Pardongate

Newly elected Senator Hillary Clinton suddenly found herself caught up in Pardongate's swirl, as prosecutors began reviewing her husband's grant of clemency for four upstate New York rabbis whose village voted for her […]

2004, Carl Limbacher, Hillary's Scheme: Inside the Next Clinton's Ruthless Agenda to Take the White House:

[…] hearings on Pardongate, Clinton's eleventh-hour clemency spree, were still under way.

2006, Lynn Vincent, Robert Stacy McCain, Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party:

Nicknamed “Elvis,” Clinton is considered a “rock star” by the left wing of the Democratic Party, perhaps because he left the White House in shambles after his presidential tour. Whitewater, Travelgate, Monicagate, and Pardongate […]

2017, BusinessNews Publishing, Summary: The Clinton Crack-Up: Review and Analysis of R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.'s Book:

(informal) The 2001 controversy around Bill Clinton's pardons of 140 people, including Patty Hearst, on his last day in office as President of the United States.


Emailgate

(informal, US politics) A 2015 controversy around Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account and server, in violation of federal security and transparency guidelines.


Debategate

(informal, US politics) A 1980s political scandal affecting the administration of Ronald Reagan, where Reagan's team somehow acquired President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers for a debate with Reagan.


Romeo and Juliet law

en-noun

Romeo and Juliet law (plural Romeo and Juliet laws)

From the names of the young lovers in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

A law that reduces the penalty for voluntary sexual intercourse that would otherwise be statutory rape, typically where the age gap between the participants is no more than a few years.


Hermia

From the character in A Midsummer Night's Dream.


Trotsky

From Russian Троцкий (Trockij), from Polish place name Troki.


Ashoka

From Sanskrit अशोक (aśoka, literally “without grief”). Doublet of Ashok and Asoka.

der

(historical) An ancient Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE.


alternative fact

en-noun

alternative fact (plural alternative facts)

This term gained prominence after it was used by Kellyanne Conway in January 2017 and widely repeated in the US media.

They are creating their own facts, but one need not be in Government to create alternative facts.

2017 February 25, R. E. Guyson Mayers, “A GUY"S VIEW: Season of discontent”, in Barbados Advocate:

According to Donald Trump we live in an era of "fake news" where his "alternative facts" should be swallowed whole, and without scrutiny.

2017 March 3, “Private Sydney: Celebrities quick to present their own 'alternative facts'”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Prime ministers have not been immune to spreading alternative facts.

2017 March 3, Chantal Hébert, “It's not just Donald Trump who shifts the truth, Canada's politicians have been using alternative facts for years”, in Toronto Star:

― Secretary: Now, I did not mislead you. That was merely an alternative fact.

2017 May 30, Moe! Ninja Girls, Japan: NTT Solmare, iOS, Android, scene: Season 6, Chapter 6:

2018 March 26, “Association of Herpes Viral Infections, Antiherpetic Therapy, and Dementia: Real or Alternative Fact?”, in Neurotherapeutics, volume 15, →DOI, pages 415–416:

(politics, media) Something presented as a fact for reasons of political expediency; a fiction, a falsehood, a lie.


Koxinga

From a Portuguese transliteration of Hokkien 國姓爺／国姓爷 (Kok-sèng-iâ).

A Chinese-Japanese Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China's southeastern coast.


Trumpification

Donald later tells me about the Trumpification of all that he surveys.

2005, Timothy L. O'Brien, TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald:

The Trumpification of Republican politics during the summer of 2015 provided gaudy confirmation that something is amiss.

2016, E. J. Dionne, Why the Right Went Wrong, page 2:

The Trumpification of the Latin American Right

2018 April 16, Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Policy:

But getting rid of Modly will only slow, not stop, the growing Trumpification of the military.

2020 April 7, Max Boot, “Capt. Crozier’s firing shows the growing Trumpification of the military”, in The Washington Post:

(US politics, neologism, originally derogatory) The implementation of Donald Trump's political ideas or influence.


Trumpmania

Even Fox News couldn't seem to make a dent in Trumpmania.

2015, McKay Coppins, The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House:

Trumpmania, on the other hand, was still going strong after five years from the time he declared his presidential candidacy in June, 2015.

2020, Michael Maccoby, Ken Fuchsman, “Conclusion”, in Psychoanalytic and Historical Perspectives on the Leadership of Donald Trump, →ISBN:

(US politics, neologism, originally derogatory) Strong attachment or commitment to Donald Trump.


TrumpCare

Blend of Trump (“Donald Trump”) + healthcare influenced by earlier ObamaCare.

blend

If he got elected, you could sign up for Trumpcare and feel manly too.

2016, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right:

(US, neologism, originally derogatory) The possible replacement of ObamaCare that would be introduced by Donald Trump.


de-Trumpification

From de- + Trumpification. In the political sense used by opponents of Trump, possibly influenced by denazification and de-Baathification.

De-Trumpification has already begun at the Taj.

2016 October 7, “Trump’s name officially exiting a beleaguered Atlantic City”, in Associated Press:

(neologism) Opposite of Trumpification.
Removing the Trump brand name.


Trumplike

en-adj

Trumplike (comparative more Trumplike, superlative most Trumplike)

more Trumplike (comparative)
most Trumplike (superlative)

Like or resembling Donald Trump; Trumpish


soft bigotry of low expectations

en-noun

soft bigotry of low expectations (uncountable)

A term used by US president George W. Bush; attributed to speechwriter Michael Gerson.

The practice of expecting less from members of a disadvantaged group and thus implicitly encouraging those people not to reach their full potential.


Roget

en-verb

Roget (third-person singular simple present Rogets, present participle Rogeting, simple past and past participle Rogeted)

Rogets (present singular third-person)
Rogeting (participle present)
Rogeted (participle past)
Rogeted (past)

Eponymous, from Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869).

In fact many times we can hear the clatter of the thesaurus Rogeting to the rescue.

1931, Joseph Daly, Mencken and Einstein look at religion, page 6:

... the deep waters of English, including 29 pages out-Rogeting Roget with synonyms for "drunk".

1983, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Mark Lemon, Punch - Volume 285, page 17:

(nonstandard) To use a thesaurus; to look for synonyms; to suggest synonyms.

Mr Sadler added that he had “seen quite a bit” of “Roget-ing”, which he described as “disguising plagiarism by substituting synonyms, one word at a time with no attempt to understand either the source or target text”.

2014 August 7, Jack Grove, “Sinister buttocks? Roget would blush at the crafty cheek”, in Times Higher Education:

Usually it's not, as it's only key words that are Rogeted, so the rest of the sentence gets flagged.

2015 February 7, Dr Pete Etchells, “Plagiarism: Copy, Paste, Thesaurus? [comment]”, in Discover Magazine: Neuroskeptic blog, archived from the original on 2017-02-21:

We discuss methods of identifying Rogeted text, concluding with practical recommendations for educators about how to better support student writers so they can avoid Rogeting in favour of developing their writing skills.

2021, Azimeh Takrimi, Sarah Elaine Eaton, “Exploring Rogeting: Implications for academic integrity”, in Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity, volume 4, →DOI, page 110:

(nonstandard) To use or to mention synonyms; (often) to replace words in a text with synonyms in order to disguise plagiarism.


Stewpot

Fuck, that is brilliant! That is inspired! What sauce! Get in! It's the economy, Stewpot!

2009 December 12, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Roger Drew, Sean Gray, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Tony Roche, Will Smith, The Thick of It, season 3, episode 8, spoken by Cal Richards (Tom Hollander), BBC Four:

(British, slang) A nickname for somebody called Stewart or Stuart (as a given name or a surname).


nature faker

(literature, derogatory) A nature writer who misrepresents animals as having thoughts and feelings similar to those of humans.


Bushitler

Blend of Bush + Hitler, in reference to Adolf Hitler.

(derogatory) A nickname for U.S. president George W. Bush, unfavorably likened to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.


Damocles

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δαμοκλῆς (Damoklês).

A courtier said to have lived at the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse.


Twitler

Blend of Twitter + Hitler, in comparison with the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and due to a tendency for former President Trump to tweet on the social media platform Twitter during his presidency.

This rule is precisely why the 68% of America who would never have voted for Resident Trump must keep a viable vigil in the streets and in the courts. “Twitler” Trump was allowed to insult, embarrass and engorge every individual and institution he wanted to for an entire campaign cycle. We taught him well.

2017 February 10, Vincent Hall, “Quit Playin': To Allow is to Teach?”, in The Dallas Weekly:

A pleasure to see that two attorneys generals, from D.C. and Maryland, just slapped Dum Dum with another emoluments lawsuit. We can’t have enough of these actions jammed up Twitler’s tailpipe.

2017 June 15, Bruce Van Dyke, “Too true to be good”, in Reno News & Review:

How long will Hair Twitler reign – And will he get out what he Putin? So now the world waits – and worries, to see What he will get up to next, the new fuhrer – A malicious clown has the nuclear codes Yet can't even acquit himself on Twitter.

[...] with posters featuring caricatures of Trump as Hitler, but that is no easy swipe at Twitler.

2018 April 12, Jack Helbig, “Hate has a home here”, in Chicago Reader, volume 47, number 27:


Traylor

(slang) The celebrity couple of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.


Tolkienology

The academic study of the works of British author J. R. R. Tolkien.


Archelaus

After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.” ¶ So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there[…].

1984, The Holy Bible, New International Version, Zondervan, →ISBN, Matthew 2:19-22:

It was not that there had been no Greece influence in the kingdom prior to Archelaus; the Greeks who had lived in Macedon earlier, including those who served with Perdiccas, had, true to form, brought their cuture with them, and some of it may have rubbed off on the Macedonians. But Archelaus is the first Macedonian king for whom we have evidence of a conscious and public adoption of some aspects of Greek culture.

1992, Eugene N. Borza, In the Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon, →ISBN, page 173:

Any of various kings in the area of Macedonia dating from BC 399 to AD 6, most notably Herod Archelaus, an ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea from 4 BC to 6 AD.

The date of the Disputation itself admits of tolerably exact settlement. Epiphanius, indeed, says that Manes fled into Mesopotamia in the ninth year of the reign of Vaerianus and Gallienus, and that the discussion with Archelaus took place about the same time. This would carry the date back to about 262 A.D.

2012, Archelaus, The Sacred Writings of Archelaus, →ISBN:

A bishop of Mesopotamia under the emperor Probus, noted for his treatise on the Manichaean heresy dating to AD 277.

A sculptor from Priene during the reign of Claudius, most noted for an image of Homer reputed to have been found in 1658.

An Athenian or Milesian philosopher who was preceptor to Socrates, noted for the doctrine that heat and cold are the principles of all things.


Chamberlain

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A city, the county seat of Brule County, South Dakota, United States.


Beatty

en-proper noun

Beatty (countable and uncountable, plural Beattys)

Two main origins:
* From a pet form of the personal name Bartholomew.
* Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac an Bhiadhtaigh (“son of the victualer”), from biadhtach (“victualer, hospitaller”).

der

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Nye County, Nevada, United States.


Brahmagupta

An Indian mathematician and astronomer (c. 598 – c. 668 CE).


Gaylor

There are two major fan theories at play in the lead-up to Midnights. The first we're going to call the Karma theory. The second is the Gaylor theory. One of them has been nearly confirmed, and the other nearly dashed.

2022 October 19, Constance Grady, “Let's go down the rabbit hole of Taylor Swift conspiracy theories”, in Vox, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

Anti-Gaylor fans, also known by the derisive term Hetlors, are a subculture of Swift followers who believe the harmless Gaylor fan theory is disrespectful to the pop star. The theory, which originated on the blogging site Tumblr in the mid-2010s, became a renewed topic of interest online when Swift abruptly announced her tenth studio album Midnights in 2022 — and began releasing coded messages about the contents and meanings behind her new songs.

2023 April 12, CT Jones, “Why Some Taylor Swift Stans Are Ganging Up On 'Gaylors': Report”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-29:

(fandom slang) A fan theory that singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is secretly gay.


Dabrowski

Borrowed from Polish Dąbrowski, from dąb (“oak tree”).


Bieber fever

(informal) Enthusiasm for the Canadian singer Justin Bieber.


Iron Lady

On the lawn of the White House, with the Iron Lady beside him, Reagan may have pledged that Britain and the USA would 'stand side by side' in defending freedom -- just so long as it was on US terms.

2003, David Powell, Tony Benn New Edition, →ISBN, page 159:

On 16 October 1998, twenty-five years after he left the presidential palace in Santiago to tell the world the story of the Chilean Revolution, Joan Garcés sent to the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón a petition asking for the urgent questioning of General Augusto Pinochet, who was preparing to leave London after a back operation and afternoon tea with his admirer, ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Over tea and scones, an older Pinochet told the Iron Lady that opinion polls predicted that Chile could have its first socialist president since 1973.

2013, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup Against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973, →ISBN, page 376:

Using the metaphor of metalurgy he had deployed in the epic parliamentary debate at the start of the war, he rose at Prime Minister's Questions on 17 June to remind the House how he had predicted that the Falklands crisis should determine what metal the Iron Lady was made of.

2013, Jonathan Aitken, Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality, →ISBN, page 372:

In March 1981, she was put to the test for the first time: Bobby Sands (1954-1981), an Irish republican prisoner, and his comrades began a hunger strike in order to obtain the status of political prisoners, thus showing their desire to receive better treatment. But the Iron Lady remained unmoved and ignored their request.

2017, Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady, →ISBN:

A nickname given to various female leaders, indicating that they are strong-willed and unyielding.


MAGA

en-adj

MAGA (comparative more MAGA, superlative most MAGA)

more MAGA (comparative)
most MAGA (superlative)

MAGA Republicans

(US politics) Following the political philosophy of Donald Trump; Trumpist.


Maybot

From May + -bot. Popularised by John Crace for political sketches published since November 8th 2016.

Whirr. Clunk. Clang. The Maybot’s eyes rotated into life.

2016 November 8, John Crace, “Theresa struggles to take back control – from her own Maybot”, in The Guardian:

Theresa Villiers, the former Northern Ireland Secretary, sacked in the Maybot takeover, sported a vacuous grin throughout the whole mechanical exercise, confirming perhaps that the election chip had been successfully inserted.

2017 May 8, Michael Settle, “Election sketch: the Maybot repeats herself - strong and stable leadership; me not him”, in The Herald Scotland:

Her campaign team seemed to have found a patch for the Maybot.

2017 June 3, Andrew Rawnsley, “The Maybot and Monsieur Zen. A drama that didn’t obey the script”, in The Guardian:

2018 November 21, Brian Smith, letter to the editor in "‘Queue-jumping’ comment reveals the Tories’ moral vacuum", The Guardian.
The perils of AI decision-making incorporating false assumptions is nicely illustrated by the Maybot’s latest output: EU citizens will no longer be able to “jump the queue ahead of ... software developers from Delhi”.

(UK politics, derogatory, humorous) A nickname for Theresa May.


Maron

Borrowed from Latin Maron, from Ancient Greek Μάρων (Márōn), from Classical Syriac ܡܪܘܢ (mārūn).

Syriac saint, whose followers moved to Mount Lebanon from northern Syria, establishing the Maronite Church.


Nanda

From Sanskrit सुन्दरी नन्दा (sundarī nandā) or Pali Sundarī Nandā.

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सुन्दरी नन्दा

(Buddhism) The half-sister of Gautama Buddha.


Nanda

From Sanskrit सुन्दरनन्द (sundarananda) or Pali Sundarananda.

(Buddhism) The half-brother of Gautama Buddha.


Trumpland

From Trump (after Donald Trump) + -land.

In Trumpland, psychology trumps reality, which helps explain how a candidate proposing one of the largest transfers of weatlh^([sic]) from the bottom to the top could effectively brand himself as a populist hero.

2016 December 27, Journalist?, “Expert Who Has Studied White Supremacy for Almost 50 Years Explains Why Racists Flock to Trump's Rhetoric”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet), message-ID <cecee0c8-7bd6-4d2a-a5fa-14f4ffb95fdd@googlegroups.com>:

United States of America
United States of America

The United States of America under the presidency of Donald Trump.

Four out of the six vulnerable Senate Democrats in Trumpland — lost.

2018 November 7, Greg Gutfeld, “Gutfeld on the Kavanaugh effect on midterms”, in Fox News Network:

The parts of the United States of America where Donald Trump finds high support; Trump's geographical support base.


Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America


Shackleton

en-proper noun

Shackleton (countable and uncountable, plural Shackletons)

Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from an unattested Old English word *sċacol (“tongue of land”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Chattooga County
Chattooga County#English

A ghost town in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States.


Zee

(Internet slang, derogatory) Volodymyr Zelenskyy.


Wałęsa

From Polish Wałęsa, from Old Polish wałęsa (“vagabond”).


Darwin's Bulldog

From a comparison the English biologist Huxley made between himself and the bulldog, since they are both ferocious fighters (the bulldog fights with spirit to win fights, and Huxley fought with spirit in defense of evolution).


Berniecrat

(US politics) A Democratic supporter of Bernie Sanders or his policies.


Trumpistan

The essay helpfully applies lessons she learned in the Putinsphere to the Trumpistan she sees unfolding in the United States.

2016 November 11, Jonathan Chait, “Trumpistan Week One: The Unthinkable Slowly Becomes Normal”, in New York Magazine:

Welcome to Trumpistan, a country two weeks into the tumultuous rule of a miserable, cruel and seemingly captive president.

2017 February 3, Joy-Ann Reid, “In Trumpistan, Things Fall Apart”, in The Daily Beast:

So what’s it going to be, America: a democratic republic, or Trumpistan?

2018 May 23, Gene Lyons, “Welcome to Trumpistan, my fellow Americans”, in Chicago Sun-Times:

The United States under president Trump.


Clintonist

Many Clintonists invested their campaign with a self-mythologizing notion that theirs was a historic quest—to achieve, at long last, the greatest of all gender breakthroughs in the history of the nation, or even the world.

2015, Alan H. Levy, The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1976–1998: Electoral Failures and the Vagaries of Identity Politics, →ISBN, page 336:

“We find that individuals with only a few followers and individuals with hundreds of followers make up a larger share in the Trump camp than in the Clinton camp, while by contrast individuals with a few dozen to 200 followers have a larger presence among the Clintonists,” say Wu and co.

2016 March 18, “Twitter Facial Analysis Reveals Demographics of Presidential Campaign Followers”, in MIT Technology Review:

2017 July 23, Edward Helmore, "‘Dirtbag left’ takes aim at Clinton supporters", The Observer (UK, Sunday sister paper of The Guardian).
“The fear is we’re going to do ’68 over again and that’s the argument the Clintonists will make – that a battle within the Democratic party will help elect a conservative militia that will then, despite being a sociological minority, craft the institutions so they can remain a political majority.”

(US politics) A supporter of Hillary Clinton.


Briseis

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Βρισηΐς (Brisēḯs, “daughter of Briseus/Brises”).

bor

So Akhilleus calls an assembly — any oddness in his doing so at this juncture is mitigated by Thetis' instructions (34–6) — and much of the Book is occupied with the speeches of reconciliation and the handing over of Briseis and Agamemnon's gifts.

1991, Mark W. Edwards, The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume V, books 17–20, Cambridge University Press, published 1995, page 234:

1993 [Random House (Knopf)], Tim Parks (translator), Roberto Calasso, The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony, 1994, Random House (Vintage), page 90,
And the Iliad was founded on a play of words, the substitution of a couple of letters in a name. Briseis, Chryseis. The bone of contention that triggers the poem is Briseis kallipárēos, Briseis “of the lovely cheeks”: Agamemnon wants her exchanged with, or substituted for, Chryseis kallipárēos, Chryseis “of the lovely cheeks." In Greek only two letters separate the two girls.

The character of Briseis and the story of her relationship with Achilles stand in the background of the entire Iliad: the poem opens, literally, with Achilles' anger, which at 1.298–9 turns out to be caused by Briseis’ abduction on Agamemnon's order, and ends shortly after Achilles sleeps with her once again in his tent (24.675-6).

2012, Marco Fantuzzi, Achilles in Love: Intertextual Studies, Oxford University Press, page 99:

(Greek mythology) A legendary figure who features in the Iliad; a princess granted as concubine to Achilles after the sacking of her city, Lyrnessus, before the beginning of the story.


Astyages

Borrowed from Latin Astyagēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀστυάγης (Astuágēs), see it for more.

(historical) the last king of Media, son of Cyaxares


Gallienus

/ˌɡæliˈɛnəs/

a Roman Emperor with his father Valerian from 253 to 260 and alone from 260 to 268


Elron

(Scientology) L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986), American author and founder of Scientology.


Pharma Bro

State and federal authorities sued imprisoned entrepreneur Martin Shkreli on Monday over tactics that shielded a profitable drug form competition after a price hike made the so-called "Pharma Bro" infamous.

2020 January 29, Jennifer Peltz, “Ny, feds sue 'Pharma Bro' for 'scheme' to keep drug price up”, in Port Charlotte Sun, volume 128, number 29, sourced from The Associated Press, page C12:

(informal, derogatory) Martin Shkreli (American businessman)


Elon

en-proper noun

Elon (countable and uncountable, plural Elons)

From Hebrew אֵילֹן (ʼÊlōn, literally “oak tree”).

bor

Elon Musk (b. 1971), South African-Canadian-American billionaire entrepreneur


Trumphobia

On 9/6/2015 9:14 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > On 2015-09-06, Mike B wrote: > I wonder if the strip will be affected by his move. (He now lives in Canada.)< Has he said why he moved - new job, new relationship? Trumphobia?

2015 September 6, Mark Jackson, “Deja Vu: Questionable Content”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet):

2016 March 9, Suffering From Trumphobia? Get Over It. The Wall Street Journal.
Edwark N. Luttwak writes that if you're suffering from Trumphobia, an irrational fear of Donald Trump becoming president, get over it.

Calls to crisis and suicide prevention hotlines surge post-election By Jessica Ravitz, CNN Updated 6:03 PM ET, Fri November 11, 2016

2016 November 12, “TRUMPHOBIA driving many Americans to suicidal despair”, in alt.prophecies.nostradamus (Usenet):

Apparently, some federal employees plan to quit employment due to a sudden onset of Trumphobia, including at least one VA psychologist.

2016 November 29, “Sudden Onset Of Trumphobia Causes VA Psychologist To Quit”, in Disabled Veterans:

He was also into hyperbole topped up with a dose of Trumphobia.

2017 May 11, “Gerard Henderson: Virginia Trioli says ABC needs more comedians”, in The Australian:

Trumphobia and how it can be cured by taking a closer look at South Africa. News24. "The next time you feel you are exhibiting Trumphobia combat it by educating yourself about the politics of countries like South Africa."


Asenath

Hebrew אָסְנַת (ʾāsənaṯ)

(biblical) An Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph, son of Jacob, to be his wife, and who bore him two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.


Trumpster

Phineas Taylor Barnum, godfather of the modern age of hot press and selfpromotion, was Donald's direct precursor, the man who anticipated the Trumpster more than a century before the Trumpster was born.

2005, Timothy L. O'Brien, TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

How long before he grew his thinning hair long enough to comb it over his receding hairline in the Trumpster's signature style?

2016, Andrew Shaffer, The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America, Crooked Lane Books, →ISBN, page 105:

This guy, who sounds like what we might call a “Scottish redneck”, adamantly refused to knuckle under to the Trumpster, and sell out, or even clean up his “eyesore” property.

2012, Jeff Foulk, Jay A. Blum, Over the Ocean and to the Links: A Golfer's Journey, Malcolm Press, →ISBN:


Zangi

Quoting Clifford Edmund Bosworth, "the origin of the name Zangī is unclear; an obvious meaning would be 'black African' [from Persian زنگی (zangi)], possibly relating to a swarthy complexion, but this would be unusual for a Turk". Another theory considers the meaning "protector of cattle", compare 19th century Kirg. Zeñ-baba "protector spirit of cows".

ʿImād ad-Dīn Zangī (d. 541/1146), Turkmen founder of the Zangid dynasty which ruled northern Iraq and Syria between the 12th and 13th centuries.


Lionheart

Richard I of England
w:Richard I of England


Westlandgate

(UK, slang) A 1985 controversy around government plans to bail out the helicopter company Westland.


Pizzagate

Battle of the Buffet
Pizzagate conspiracy theory

(slang) A 2016 conspiracy theory claiming that John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, was involved in human trafficking, and alleging the existence of a secret child sex ring associated with the Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington, D.C.


Baybars

Possibly from the Mamluk-Kipchak descendant of the compound of Proto-Turkic *bāj (“rich, noble”) and *bars (“leopard, large feline”).

a mameluke sultan of Egypt of the 13th century


Hulagu

A Mongol ruler who conquered much of Western Asia; a grandson of Genghis Khan.


Imhotep

From Egyptian jj-m-ḥtp (literally “(the one) coming in peace, (the one) returning home safely”): M18-G17-R4:X1*Q3 from the perfective active participle of jj (“to come, to return”) + m ḥtp (“in peace, safely”).


Mozzer

(UK, slang) Morrissey (born 1959), an English singer-songwriter and author.


Mozzer

(colloquial) An employee of Moz, a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) company.


Moz

(Southern Africa, slang) Short for Mozambique.


TAFKAP

Acronym of the artist formerly known as Prince; the musical artist Prince Rogers Nelson.


Bacon-Shakespearean

One who believes that Francis Bacon (1561–1626) or a relation of his was the author of the works attributed to William Shakespeare.


Dirty Dozen

A team of twelve IBM employees, formed in 1980, who created the first IBM PC in 1981.

(Basketball) The United States' men's basketball team (which consists of twelve players) at the 1998 FIBA World Championship.

Saddam Hussein and eleven others who carried out his orders.

(cycling) A one-day road cycling race founded in 1983 (which originally featured twelve hills, but since 1988 has typically featured a baker's dozen of thirteen hills), held annually in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

(aviation) The twelve most common aircraft problems, resulting from human error, that may lead to accidents etc.


Hooverize

en-verb

Hooverize (third-person singular simple present Hooverizes, present participle Hooverizing, simple past and past participle Hooverized)

Hooverizes (present singular third-person)
Hooverizing (participle present)
Hooverized (participle past)
Hooverized (past)

From Hoover + -ize, named after Herbert Hoover, who, as head of the Food and Drug Administration during World War I, encouraged Americans to ration food. Apparently coined in the poem reproduced below.

The clean plate is the slogan of today, / And we this vital war-cry must obey, / And waste no single particle or crust / And save the scraps, for now we really must / Hooverize! / The empty garbage pail is now the rage, / And in this ‘war on waste’ which we must wage / To throw away an egg shell will be sin / So if, with great success, we are to win, / Hooverize! / Things must be canned which never were before, / We must have fruits and vegetables galore, / There must be lots of corn and beets and beans, / And to us all this warning simple means, / Hooverize! / Our soldiers must be fed in France and here, / To all of us our soldiers are most dear, / And we must ‘do our bit’ and help along, / And every one of us must sing the song, / Hooverize! / ‘Conserve your food supply and win the war,’ / All of you have read these words before, / But when you red them now remember you / Have got your ‘little bit’ cut out to do— / So Hooverize!

1917, Margaret Leet Beckman, “Hooverize!”, in Table Talk, volume 43, number 3, page 21:

‘Hooverize’ is the word in our national economical situation. Let us Hooverize in the telephone service; conserve the force that plays such an important role in our present-day business methods; save time; save electricity spent on tomfoolery gossipping over the wire; keep the front door for business wide open; Hooverize for measured service.

1918, Whilhelm Bodemann, “Hooverizing the Telephone”, in N.A.R.D. Journal, volume 26, page 25:

As William Leuchtenburg writes: So pervasive were the food administrator’s messages that Webster’s gained a new entry: Hooverize, meaning to economize in the national interest. It became a household word. A 1918 Valentine’s Day card read: I can Hooverize on dinner, / And on lights and fuel too, / But I'll never learn to Hooverize, / When it comes to loving you.

2017, Barry Riley, The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

(dated, transitive, intransitive) To be economical in the use of a resource, particularly food.


Eratosthenes

/ɛɹəˈtɒsθəniz/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐρατοσθένης (Eratosthénēs).

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An Ancient Greek polymath at Alexandria, best known for his studies of geography.


Trumpworld

So, several figures inside Trumpworld have been wrestling with the very dilemma that animated my fictional characters. Put simply: if you’re convinced that the leader you serve is a danger to your country and the world, where does your patriotic and democratic duty lie?

2018 September 7, Jonathan Freedland, “If you were in the White House, how would you tackle Trump?”, in The Guardian:

Donald Trump's circle of associates, employees and appointees.

The mental landscape of Donald Trump or of his supporters.


Rasputin

Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916), a Russian mystic.


Bliar

(derogatory, UK politics) A pejorative nickname for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, usually in reference to his support for the Iraq War.


frumious

en-adj

frumious (comparative more frumious, superlative most frumious)

more frumious (comparative)
most frumious (superlative)

Blend of fuming + furious, coined by Lewis Carroll in the poem Jabberwocky (1871).


RDJ

Initialism of Robert Downey Jr., American actor and singer.


Mengzi

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese for 蒙自 (Méngzì).

People read at a library on World Book Day in Mengzi, Hani-Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Honghe in southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 23, 2022.

2022 April 23, “World Book Day marked across China”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2022-04-23:

A county-level city in Honghe, in southeastern Yunnan, China.


Aeschines

From Latin Aeschinēs or its etymon, Ancient Greek Αἰσχῐ́νης (Aiskhínēs).

(Ancient Greece) A celebrated Greek statesman and orator (389–314 B.C.E.; full name Αἰσχίνης Ἀτρομήτου Κοθωκίδης, Aeschines Atrometi f. Cothocides), one the Canon of Ten Attic Orators.

إيسخينيس

Greek statesman and Canonical Attic Orator (389–314 BC)


Never Trumper

From Never Trump + -er, after one of the names applied to the Stop Trump movement.

...the Ukraine call ‘concerned’ today’s Never Trumper witness.

2019 November, Donald Trump (as quoted by AP Newshttps://apnews.com/7bc6f95f311a46dcbc0e75bdd2f25b1b)

(US politics) A conservative who opposes Donald Trump.


Bushlicker

Mike is such a Bushlicker; I spoke out against Bush's position on marijuana and he said, "How DARE you question our president's position on drugs after 9/11!"

Why the hell've you gotta be such a big Bushlicker? The way you say we should be "rallying around" him couldn't make me sicker

2003 August 24, savegra...@yahoo.com, “Funny song: Bushlicker”, in alt.impeach.bush (Usenet):

Pass-the-buck Bush after the bankruptcy predictably claimed that he barely knew Kenny-Boy; this lie even the most fawning Bushlicker couldn't buy.

2004, Robert Sterling, 50 Reasons Not to Vote for Bush, →ISBN, page 76:

Tell us how you are proud to be a Bushlicker.

2006 April 20, Ryd, “Is T-Bone the Biggest Bushlicker On Usenet?”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

(informal, derogatory) A person who acted or spoke sycophantically towards the authority of former U.S. president George W. Bush.


Antiphon

an Ancient Greek sophist who wrote several philosophical treatises (480 – 411 BCE)


Caratacus

From Latin Caratacus. Doublet of Caradog, Caradoc, Cedric, Craddock, Cradock, McCarthy, and McCarty.

dbt

A 1st-century AD British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who resisted the Roman conquest of Britain.


Geta

A Roman emperor who ruled from 209 to 211 C.E..


Romeoesque

en-adj

Romeoesque (comparative more Romeoesque, superlative most Romeoesque)

more Romeoesque (comparative)
most Romeoesque (superlative)

Reminiscent of Shakespeare's Romeo, an ardent male lover.


Epicharmus

From Latin Epicharmus, from Ancient Greek Ἐπίχαρμος (Epíkharmos).

comic playwright and moralist from Kos (c. 530 – 450 BCE)


Trumpite

Trumpite (comparative more Trumpite, superlative most Trumpite)

more Trumpite (comparative)
most Trumpite (superlative)


Trumpite

What do an Etonian, a Trumpite and a Corbyn fan have in common? My church.

2017 December 28, Giles Fraser, Guardian:


Bernie bro

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A male political supporter of the US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.


Shillary

Blend of shill + Hillary, likely to invoke the view that Hillary Clinton serves corporate interests, lobbyists, etc. over the voters she represents.

If Shillary gets the Nomination theres^([sic]) still a chance to win via write in candidates. And even if Bernie "looses"^([sic]) the number of votes taken from Hillary will make it quite apparent that she does NOT have the support of the progressive base. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HER.

2015, §nühw¤Łf, “Re: Shillary wants your emailz”, in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk (Usenet):

Yes, please tell me how Shillary is the nicest corporate oligarchical servant, and how she will lovingly sell out the people who voted for her to her banker masters, with a twinkle in her fellating eye.

2016 February 13, Gene Lyons, anonymous quotee, “Understanding the 'Bernie Bros'”, in The Daily Journal, volume 83, number 37, page A11:

Idiot Trump is going to beat up Idiot Joe so viciously that it will be almost as satisfying as when Idiot Trump ended Shillary's career.

2020 April 18, Uchena Shorey, “Our demise”, in Daily News, volume 101, number 298, Voice of the People, page 19:

(US politics, derogatory) Hillary Clinton (born 1947), American politician and diplomat, former first lady (1993–2001) and secretary of state (2009–2013) of the United States.


AMLO

His folksy way of fighting corruption is working for him. At a time when citizens across Latin America are rebelling against their leaders (see Bello), AMLO has an approval rating of nearly 60%.

2019 November 30, “AMLO uses his anti-corruption drive to gain power and scare critics”, in The Economist:

When AMLO became president in 2018, he promised that the poorest Mexicans would be his priority and blasted the “neoliberal” establishment for ignoring the concerns of the “people.”

2024 March 17, Ilan Stavans, “Will Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?”, in The New York Times:

Andrés Manuel López Obrador
w:Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Initialism of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico from 2018 to 2024


Gorlois

The name first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136).

(mythology) The husband of Igraine prior to Uther Pendragon, in Arthurian legend.


Pherecrates

/fɪˈɹɛkɹətiːz/

Either from Latin Pherecratēs or directly from its etymon, Ancient Greek Φερεκρᾰ́της (Pherekrátēs).

A celebrated Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, living in the fifth century BCE (born after Crates and Cratinus but before Aristophanes, Eupolis, and Plato Comicus – so between c. 519 and c. 446 BCE), victorious at least thrice at the City Dionysia and the Lenaia in the 440s–430s, and inventor of the Pherecratean metre.


Sennacherib

From Latin Sennacherib, ultimately from Akkadian 𒁹𒌍𒉽𒈨𒌍𒋢 (/Sîn-ahhī-erība/, “Sîn has replaced the brothers”).

der

The king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 705 BCE to 681 BCE, famous for the role he plays in the Bible which describes his campaign in the Levant.


Budai

Derived from Mandarin 布袋 (Bùdài, “cloth sack”).

der+

(Buddhism) A 10th-century monk, revered as Maitreya, a bodhisattva, in the Mahayana Buddhist pantheon; the Laughing Buddha.


Campaspe

A rural locality in Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia


MbS

Coordinate term: MBZ

Elites, secular nationalists, and ordinary people exhausted by or fearful of wars were euphoric following the rise of leaders such as Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt and MbS.

2018 November 3, Hassan Hassan, “The Arab Winter Is Coming”, in The Atlantic:

Mohammed bin Salman
w:Mohammed bin Salman


Mango Mussolini

Mango refers to Trump's orangish skin tone; the reference to Benito Mussolini is because of Trump's conservative nationalist politics, which his opponents liken to fascism.

Also, Bill Maher is a liberal in the same way Mango Mussolini is a conservative.

2017 June 6, Freezer, “LIEberal ICON Bill Maher uses N-Word, is NOT called, "RACIST!!! by LIEberals, and is NOT suspended”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

(US politics, derogatory, slang, offensive) Donald Trump.


Chimperor

Blend of chimp + emperor, compare Chimpy.

Now, pulling out a goodly number of troops and replacing them with international soldiers, plus forfeiting the "leadership" position to the UN sounds like a good deal. Fat chance the Chimperor will let that happen.

2004 April 23, Max O., “Re: Why Bush's war has already failed”, in nashville.general (Usenet):

The Chimperor lets water supplies get diluted with mercury and arsenic, led Texas to have one of the WORST water and air quality scores during his tenure as gubnor...

2004 October 9, DaveNOSPAM, “"Culture of Life" ??????? WTF?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

Could be a modern day indictment against the Chimperor. Especially the "I tell you one and one makes three" part. Time to overthrow those damned activist mathematicians!

2006 May 31, Jason Todd, “Re: On the cover of National Review: 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs”, in alt.punk (Usenet):

(US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009), seen as a tyrant.


QAnon

/ˌkjʉː ɘˈnɔn/

Q clearance
United States Department of Energy

From Q + anon. From the United States Department of Energy's Q clearance + anonymous. Compare Q (“QAnon”).

2017 November 18, Amazing Answers, “RE: Who is QAnon?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

In October, an anonymous 4chan account began making cryptic posts about earth-changing political and judicial events to come. Ever since then, conspiracy theorists, journalists, and amused observers have speculated about who was behind the account that has come to be known as QAnon.

2018 May 29, Mike Rothschild, “Who is Q Anon, the internet’s most mysterious poster?”, in The Daily Dot:

The question “Who is the most hilarious person QAnon could turn out to be?” yielded thousands of responses. Here are the best and most common ones.

2018 August 6, Joe Berkowitz, “Who is the mastermind behind QAnon? Twitter has some fun theories”, in Fast Company:

In The mysterious figure called “Q” or “QAnon” first appeared online on Oct. 28, 2017, with a post on the far-right /pol/ message board of 4chan that they had inside information about a secret plot being hatched by the Trump administration.

2018 November 11, Michael Barkun, “Failed Prophecies Won’t Stop Trump’s True Believers”, in Foreign Policy:

(US politics) An anonymous poster on the Internet message boards 4chan, 8chan and 8kun, claiming to possess Q clearance, who originated a pro-Trump conspiracy theory claiming that Donald Trump is working against a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles comprised of his political opponents.

These bizarre results, first spotted by the NBC reporter Ben Collins, are not the result of the latest #MeToo era investigation reporting. Instead, they are the entirely unsubstantiated manifestation of a sprawling rightwing conspiracy theory known as QAnon.
[…] Joseph Uscinski, a University of Miami professor who studies conspiracy theories, said by phone that QAnon remains a “fringe” belief held by “a very small number of people”.

2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:

It's nebulous and continuously changing to adapt to current events, but the overarching conspiracy theory has been given a name: "QAnon".
 […] The baseless core of the QAnon story is that the Mueller investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia is actually an investigation into global elites, and that the president is masterminding a secret plan to arrest top politicians and Hollywood stars for corruption and child abuse.

2018 August 2, Elizabeth Cassin, Mike Wendling, “QAnon: What's the truth behind a pro-Trump conspiracy theory?”, in BBC:

QAnon, whose supporters also call it “The Storm” or “Great Awakening,” is a wide-ranging conspiracy theory that burst into greater visibility this summer, after supporters at a Trump rally wearing Q shirts prompted a rush of national media coverage about it.

2018 September 12, Abby Ohlheiser, “Reddit bans r/greatawakening, the main subreddit for QAnon conspiracy theorists”, in The Washington Post:

Like much of the new conspiracism, QAnon began with conspiracy entrepreneurs.[…]11. For instance, on August 3, 2018, the authors consulted the discussion of “clues” by QAnon researchers on the following Reddit.com message board: https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/84sam4/does_anyone_have_the_link_to_the_current_8chan/.

2019 April 16, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Russell Muirhead, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy, Princeton University Press, pages 133 (Who Owns Reality?) and 195 (Notes):

(US politics) The conspiracy theory originated by this anonymous poster.

If QAnon's claims were true, they would shake the very foundations of global government and explain the confusion of politics in recent years. As it is, they are not true – but their importance could nonetheless be hugely significant.

2018 August 2, Andrew Griffin, “What is QAnon? The origins of the bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that Trump-Russia investigation is a hoax to catch pedophiles”, in The Independent:

A group dubbed "QAnon" has emerged at Trump campaign events recently. They follow and try to decipher the online posts of someone named "Q", who traffics in conspiracy theories focused on people in government and media.

2018 August 3, Jeff Brady, “QAnon: The Conspiracy Theorist Group That Appears At Trump Rallies”, in NPR:

"What a movement such as QAnon has going for it, and why it will catch on like wildfire, is that it makes people feel connected to something important that other people don’t yet know about,” says cult expert Rachel Bernstein, who specializes in recovery therapy. "All cults will provide this feeling of being special.”

2018 November 12, Renee Diresta, “Online Conspiracy Groups are a Lot Like Cults”, in Wired:

(US politics) The movement supporting this conspiracy theory.


Trumptard

@MyInfidelAnna I’m thinking Anna’s brain got grabbed, logic is hard for Trumptards.

2018, Judith E. Rosenbaum, quoting @jdgirl99, “#MAGA, #ImWithHer, and #Snowflake: Politics and Twitter”, in Constructing Digital Cultures: Tweets, Trends, Race, and Gender, Lexington Books, →ISBN, section “Tweeting with a Passion: Twitter, Politics, and Social Justice”, page 206:

Finally, Hannity cited a tweet from the account @TheResistANNce, apparently run by a self-identified progressive schoolteacher: “Oh, they’re probably Trumptards,” wrote the Twitter user, referring to the concert audience.

2018, Ben Sasse, “The Polarization Business Model”, in Them: Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, part II (Anti-Tribes), page 108:

Every one of those girls, I respected, supported in my own way. Till some became Trumptards on their Twitter, then you just gotta fap to them being disrespected. But the rest—mad respect.

2022, Miguel Syjuco, I Was the President’s Mistress!!, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

(US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A supporter of Donald Trump; a Trumpist.


ScoMo

"During a brief pause in this conviviality, ScoMo and his staff worked out which media table to visit next."

2018 May 9, James Jeffery, “Long live all of us: Scott Morrison’s blessing”, in The Australian, retrieved 2018-08-28:

(Australia, informal) Scott Morrison (born 1968), Australian politician and 30th Prime Minister of Australia.


MBS

This new vehicle funded the purchases of these tranches by issuing fixed-income interests to investors who were seeking high returns and who were willing to believe that by repackaging mezzanine tranches in MBS structures, some tranches could be designated as safe enough to obtain a AAA or AA rating.

2020, Katharina Pistor, chapter 4, in The Code of Capital […] , Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

mortgage-backed security
mortgage-backed security#English

(finance) Initialism of mortgage-backed security.


Trumpophobic

en-adj

Trumpophobic (comparative more Trumpophobic, superlative most Trumpophobic)

more Trumpophobic (comparative)
most Trumpophobic (superlative)

Now, like many other Trumpophobic Republicans, he (Lindsey Graham) fears that, should the Donald be duly nominated in Cleveland in July and then whipped by Hillary Clinton in November, Republicans will spend the next few decades hanging upside-down in a cave.

2016 March 2, “How Donald Trump happened”, in Macleans.ca:

Once again, the Trumpophobic Left has proved that it will not give President Donald J. Trump credit for anything

2017 April 18, “The MOAB Attack on ISIS Was a Beautiful Bargain”, in National Review:

the effort to turn this into an illegal campaign contribution reaches a new depth in Trumpophobic improvisation.

2018 May 9, “How a Febrile Press Whipped Up Anger At Trump, for Nothing”, in New York Sun:

Characterized by hatred or fear of Donald Trump.


Trumpophobia

At home, I see intolerance, various forms of prejudice, demonisation and the exploitation of fear – the last like shooting at the side of a barn, in the American context – at work in our Trumpophobia. This is the soft despotism of the American neoliberal.

2016, Stan Grant, Quarterly Essay 64 The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming:

Heer, who writes a bi-weekly column with headings such as “Steve Bannon is Turning Trump into an Ethno-Nationalist Ideologue” and “Donald Trump is the Bizarro Noam Chomsky”, appears to have contracted a particularly virulent strain of Trumpophobia

2017 April 20, D McCann, “The new totalitarians: Fresh thoughts on James Burnham”, in Quadrant:

Comedian Bill Maher — currently in the midst of his 15th season on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" — has certainly been the beneficiary of increased viewership due to Trumpophobia.

2017 May 7, Zach Freeman, “Maher needed to put away his notebook and be present at Chicago Theater”, in Chicago Tribune:

Alan Dershowitz, a Clinton voter in the last election, warned that the effort to escalate perfervid Trumpophobia from criminalization of policy differences (as well as sour grapes over the lost election) to “psychiatrization” was even more sinister and anti-democratic.

2018 January 10, Conrad Black, “Michael Wolff and the Death Rattle of Trumpophobia”, in National Review:

We may disapprove of Donald Trump's crude behaviors and documented low respect for truth[3]. However, these may have created a kind of Trumpophobia that leads otherwise thoughtful people to exaggerate earlier positive influences of US foreign policy

2018, FT Manheim, “Is Donald Trump's Influence on World Affairs Really Worse than Earlier American Policies?”, in papers.ssrn.com:

(US, politics, informal) Fear of Donald Trump


Bogey

Bogey's voice is breaking. When he speaks he rushes up and down the scale.

1920 August 27, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “The Wind Blows”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 143:

In quintessential roles, Bogart and Bergman are former lovers reunited in wartorn Casablanca. Bogey is the cynical cafe owner who lives by his own moral code and sticks his neck out for “no one.”

2014, David Bleiler, TLA Video & DVD Guide 2004: The Discerning Film Lover's Guide, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:

(informal) Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), American film and stage actor.


(Philippine politics) Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines from 2016-2022.


Satyrus

A distinguished Peripatetic philosopher and historian


Clintonoid

en-adjective

Clintonoid (comparative more Clintonoid, superlative most Clintonoid)

more Clintonoid (comparative)
most Clintonoid (superlative)

Which Clintonoid columnist or propagandist did not employ this dramatic phrase, as their hero found himself at the mercy, not of a law 'n' order Democrat on the approved model, but of a law 'n' order Republican?

1999, Christopher Hitchens, chapter 3, in No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton:

But this, he asserted, "does not require the rhetoric of reparations," and it fit what he called "the Clintonoid tenor of sappy public apologies and maudlin psychobabble about collective pain and healing."

2005, Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey, The Limits of Law, →ISBN, page 89:

Clintonoid liberals have their own narratives that minimize the lessons to be drawn from Trump's victory.

2018, Adolph L. Reed Jr., “Foreword”, in Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement:

(derogatory, informal, US) Clintonian: relating to or supporting Bill or Hillary Clinton.


Clintonoid

A Clintonoid would be able to easily dismiss it as just some sort of clerical error if it weren't so logically cohesive.

1995, Michael Cliff Kellett, The Murder of Vince Foster, page 135:

Samuel Francis sounds like a Clintonoid in his column "Will Europe Survive?" (Principalities & Powers, August).

2016, Ted Rall for Counterpunch, Hey, Clintonoids, Stop Bullying Me About My Vote:

(derogatory, informal, US) A Clintonite.


Lob Lie-by-the-fire

(mythology) A hairy man in English folklore, similar to the brownie, said to perform housework in return for a saucer of milk and a place beside the fire.


Zucc

Alternative spelling of Zuck (a shortening of Zuckerberg, referring to Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg) with -cc. Some also claim that this spelling comes from the spelling practices of the Crips street gang, who consider "CK" taboo as it can stand for "Crip Killer".

(informal, slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of Zuck (“Mark Zuckerberg”)


Trumperor

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Trumperor.

(US politics, informal, derogatory) U.S. president Donald Trump, seen as a tyrant.


Hitlery

Given the perverted acts of her "husband", there were in January 1998 two alternate dramatic ways Hitlery could establish her legacy as America's Top Feminist: […]

1998 September 20, Reynmeistr, “The Legacy of HITLERY”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet):

It looks as if Hitlery Clinton went to visit some wives, of Marines that are getting ready to ship out to go kick Sadam's ass. To bad for Hitlery that most of those wives did not want Hitlery to be anywhere around them.

2003 January 26, Alvin Valkenheiser, “HITLERY CLINTON IN UPSTATE N.Y.”, in nyc.politics (Usenet):

Hitlery’s most recent rhetoric about guns are the usual boiler-plate Democrat talking points: close the online and gun show loophole, ban guns for those on the no fly list, etc.

2015 December 30, Roddy D. Riggs, “Letters to the Editor: Gun Blather is Usual Rhetoric”, in Belleville News-Democrat, volume 158, number 364, Belleville, Ill., page 2C:

(US politics, derogatory) Hillary Clinton (born 1947), American politician and diplomat, former first lady (1993–2001) and secretary of state (2009–2013) of the United States.


Elchibey

From Azerbaijani Elçibəy, from elçibəy (“noble messenger”), from elçi (“messenger”) and bəy (“nobleman”).

the nickname of the Azerbaijani president Abulfaz Aliyev


Shrub

A play on his surname Bush, a shrub being a smaller bush, thus indicating that he is the junior Bush in relation to his father George H. W. Bush. Popularized by American newspaper columnist Molly Ivins (1944–2007), who co-wrote Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush (2000) with Lou Dubose.

Ann Richards [...] is running for reelection as Governor of Texas against George W. Bush, a Republican and the eldest son of the former President. […] She derides him as “all hat and no cattle.” […] Her followers hand out bumper stickers saying: “Don't elect the son-of-a-Bush.” They call him “Shrub.”

1994 October 20, Ian Brodie, “Lone Star governor struggles to uproot the Shrub”, in The Times, London, page 15:

For the past five days, mostly in New York and SC, the Shrub has apparently been running ads that characterize McCain’s policy proposals in what Murphy terms a “willfully distorting” way.

2000 April 13, David Foster Wallace, “David Foster Wallace on John McCain: ‘The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub’”, in Rolling Stone:

If this tax-cut were proposed in exactly opposite proportions, conservatives would be screaming about communist re-distribution of wealth and having aneurysms right and left. It’s much better when the rich take from the poor. After all, the American rich are oppressed and deserve this windfall. Shrub said so. It must be true.

2001 April 4, David Hollingsworth, “Readers’ views: Tax cut helps only rich”, in Lexington Herald-Leader, volume 19, number 91, Lexington, Ky., page A10:

It seems that a recent letter opines that President Shrub deserves our loyalty simply because we can’t possibly know his decision making “unless we were to step into the role as president.” […] As to our inability to understand his choices, Shrub has a record in Texas.

2001 May 7, Dick Goodemoot, “Letters: President Bush deserves disrespect”, in Corvallis Gazette-Times, volume 139, number 127, Corvallis, Ore., page A11:

Less than 24 hours after the idiot Shrub gives that disasterous inaugural speech of his, the Shrub's daddy goes to the media to apologize to the world for his son's crazy talk. Shrub's daddy is now going around trying to reassure other countries that his son didn't really mean what he said and that he is not really going to invade them after all.

2005 January 24, AbelM...@webtv.net, “Shrub is a Certifiable Loon & The Whole World Knows This.”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

(US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).

George H. W. Bush
Lou Dubose
Molly Ivins


Forrest Trump

From Forrest Gump, the slow-witted title character of the 1994 film and 1986 book Forrest Gump.

What owns Atlantic City and sits on a park bench?
Forrest Trump.

1994 October 25, Paul Kowalski, “Forrest Gump”, in alt.tasteless.jokes (Usenet):

Your assertion that getting it down to 2 people makes it easier to prevent Forrest Trump's gaining a majority is ridiculous .^([sic])

2016 March 6, halfpastdead9, “ROMNEY/KASICH”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):

(derogatory) Nickname for Donald John Trump.