Trumpology

Perhaps, as Eugene Robinson stated in his column (TNT, 3-15), the Chicago protest may very well be noted as “the dawn of the resistance” to this caustic Trumpology.

2016 March 21, Sam Chandler, “We’re complicit if we don’t denounce Trump”, in The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., page 9A:

Like Kremlinology, Trumpology cannot provide definitive explanations. But it does enable us to lay out intelligent alternative interpretations of what the hell is going on.

2016 December 7, Gabriel Schoenfeld, “Could Trump’s advisers play him on Taiwan?”, in The Salinas Californian, Salinas, Calif., page 2A:

Everybody used to have an old uncle like him, and Trumpology is simply that old uncle with better lighting.

2017 March 1, Garrison Keillor, “Your crazy old uncle is now president”, in Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill., page 17:

In the jargon of Trumpology, the president has tossed a sop to his climate-change denying chief strategist, Steve Bannon, and disappointed his green daughter, Ivanka.

2017 June 2, Simon Jenkins, “Trump wants to shut out the world. Ditching the Paris deal proves it”, in The Guardian, London:

Here’s our guide to Trump’s Trumpology.[…]But Trumpology defies ridicule. Critics have been forced to swallow their pride and address the creeping influence of the President’s authorism in the English language, a “post-literate” style that has inflected discourse and internet hot-takes indiscriminately.[…]The Bloomberg editor Joe Weisenthal once, rather flightily, located the providence of Trumpology in Orality and Literacy, the work of 20th-century historian Walter J Ong. “Oral culture rewards redundancy, because when an audience can’t go back and consult a text, speakers must guard against distraction and confusion. Repetition is one useful technique, and Trump is a master of it.”

2020 October 21, Samuel Fishwick, “Covfefe? It’s ’uge. Donald Trump’s linguistic legacy”, in Evening Standard, London, page 7:

This is not, however, merely another addition to the annals of Trumpology.

2021 January 10, Talia Lavin, “Author examines what strongmen like Trump have in common”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Mo., page B7:

Further, American and Christian concepts of love, caring, respectfulness and selflessness are trampled upon, and replaced with Trumpology, a hateful, egotistical, selfish and bullying way of dealing with others. Trump trumps everything if we allow him to. Please start standing up to the lies and deceitfulness so our nation can move to a place of healing rather than be lea^([sic]) into destruction by Trumpology.

2021 January 21, Greg Hegman, “Trump Trump’s everything if we allow him to”, in Times-News, Twin Falls, Ida., page A11:

Reports related to Trump’s second impeachment very well reflect the Trumpology of the last four years – lie as much as you find tolerable (and the tolerance levels have been moved out extensively), and cover the truth with more lies and deception.[…]Lies, deceit and corruption – the core of Trumpology.

2021 February 11, Greg Hegman, “Same old Trump”, in Times-News, Twin Falls, Ida., page A9:


Scroogian

en-adj

Scroogian (comparative more Scroogian, superlative most Scroogian)

more Scroogian (comparative)
most Scroogian (superlative)


Scroogean

Scroogean (comparative more Scroogean, superlative most Scroogean)

more Scroogean (comparative)
most Scroogean (superlative)


even a worm will turn

First attested in a 1546 collection of proverbs by John Heywood, in the form “Treade a worme on the tayle, and it must turne agayne.” Popularized by William Shakespeare in The Third Part of Henry the Sixth, see quotations.

The ſmalleſt Worme will turne, being troden on, / And Doues will pecke in ſafegard of their Brood.

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 154, column 1:

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, and doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.

Even the meekest or most docile people will retaliate or seek revenge if pushed too far.


January 6

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It was finally time, per Trump’s instructions, to march down Pennsylvania Avenue. The rest you know all about, despite efforts by most Republicans in Congress to hide the truth of January 6.

2021 June 14, Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Capitol Riot Was Prologue”, in The Atlantic:

The attack against the United States Congress at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.


Bede

An English monk, historian and theologian from Northumbria who lived from c. 673 to 753, commonly known as the Venerable Bede.


Bardolphian

Bardolphian (comparative more Bardolphian, superlative most Bardolphian)

more Bardolphian (comparative)
most Bardolphian (superlative)

You intend to paint it red — a true Bardolphian nose!

1870, Frederic Swartwout Cozzens, Sayings, Wise and Otherwise, page 252:

His cheeks were plump and sanguine; his eyes bright and cheerful; and the tip of his nose glowed with a Bardolphian fire, a flame, indeed, which Hugh was so far a vestal as to supply with its necessary fuel at all some seasons of the year.

1876, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe, and other pieces, page 50:

Of or relating to Bardolph, an alcoholic thief in four of Shakespeare's plays, especially in having the red nose of a habitual drunkard.


Bozza

(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.


TFG

(US politics, slang) Initialism of "the former guy". Specifically, the former American president Donald Trump.


Trumpdom

(Clue to today’s quiz: In her introduction to the Esquire profiles, to whom is Nora Ephron referring when she writes: “Look how happy he is in his Trumphood; look how merrily he floats in his Trumpdom; look how brightly he wallows in his Trumpness”?)

1989 June 2, Bob Sipchen, “Covering an Identity Crisis”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., page 11, columns 2–3:

As for being “Right here,” guest David Letterman was teleported in from New York, illusionists Siegfried and Roy were pretaped at their home in Las Vegas, and Donald Trump materialized on a TV monitor from somewhere within his crumbling Trumpdom.

1990 November 2, Tom Shales, “King’s variety show a failure”, in York Daily Record, York, Pa., page 1D:

Having for all intents and purposes conquered official Trumpdom, the truth also appears to be gaining a small foothold in the GOP grass roots.

2020 November 25, Scot Lehigh, “Biden takes his cue from Muhammad Ali as he copes with a dope”, in The Boston Globe, Boston, Mass., page A10, column 3:


Trumpness

[Ira] Bachrach adds: “The more you dilute the name, the more apparent it is to people that it is just a rubber stamp being used indiscriminately, and the less it is perceived to have a unique attribute of Trumpness.”

1989 February 19, Donald Woutat, “Don Trump: The art of the name”, in The Fresno Bee, Fresno, Calif., page D6, column 1:

And the most recent and disturbing example, Mike Pence, a devout Christian, abandoning his truthfulness, tainting his ability to stand above Trumpness, by saying Trump “did not mean what he said” in calling for the Ukraine and China to dig up dirt on Biden.

2019 November 10, Greg Hegman, “Letters to the Editor”, in Idaho Statesman, volume 155, number 108, Boise, Ida., page 11B, column 2:

Indeed, the very Trumpness of his speech is the key to the President’s appeal.

2020 November 4, Philip Collins, “‘Trumpness’ of Donald’s speech is key to his appeal”, in Evening Standard, London, page 14, column 2:

The property of being like Donald Trump.


Shakespearology

Now, to maintain that the poet evolved Italian local colour out of his inner consciousness is merely a piece of the supernaturalism which infects Shakespearology.

1884, William Archer, “The Local Colour of “Romeo and Juliet””, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume CCLVII, London: Chatto & Windus, […], page 440:

If there be any knowledge of sublunary things in “the beautiful veiled bright world where the glad ghosts meet,” the shade of Shakespeare must find matter for inextinguishable mirth in the developments of modern Shakespearology.

1886 August 25, “Squire Shakespeare and Shakespeare the Snowman”, in The Pall Mall Gazette: An Evening Newspaper and Review, volume XLIV, number 6690, London, page 5, column 1:

Shakespearology feeds not only on Shakespeare, but also on itself. There are over two thousand Shakespeare professorships in the United States alone, and nearly a thousand in the rest of the world.

1984, Jan Kott, “Shakespeare’s Riddle”, in The Theater of Essence and Other Essays, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →LCCN, page 7:


Elon time

From Elon Musk's overly optimistic projections of launch/completion dates.

(automotive, astronautics, journalism) An estimated time of arrival (ETA), that is exceedingly optimistic, needing to be doubled or tripled to arrive at a reasonable estimate. Used by journalists, editorialists, and fans, concerning the ETAs of milestones and products from commercial spacelaunch provider SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla, Inc.; as well as other endeavours of Elon Musk.


Vegetable English

Pun on Tsai's name in Mandarin 蔡英文 (Cài Yīngwén), which is homophonous to 菜 (cài, “vegetable”) + 英文 (Yīngwén, “English”).

(Taiwan, humorous) Nickname for Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwanese politician.


Korea Fish

Pun on Han's name in Mandarin 韓國瑜／韩国瑜 (Hán Guóyú), which is homophonous to 韓國／韩国 (Hánguó, “Korea”) + 魚／鱼 (yú, “fish”).


Trump-tastic

en-adjective

Trump-tastic (comparative more Trump-tastic, superlative most Trump-tastic)

more Trump-tastic (comparative)
most Trump-tastic (superlative)


Trumpless

Trump casinos now Trumpless; The Donald quits

2009 February 14, Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park, N.J., page A12:

It’s going to be an interesting year, all right, starting with the Trumpless debate on Fox tonight.

2016 January 28, “Donald playing the Trump card”, in Desert Dispatch, volume 106, number 120, Barstow, Calif., page A4, column 1:

But they haven’t abandoned their dreams of a Trumpless ticket just yet.

2016 February 25, John Kass, “Trump: The barbarian at the Republican gates”, in Chicago Tribune, 168th year, number 56, Chicago, Ill., page 2, column 3:


Trump-less

Though the tower is now Trump-less, interest remains in the 1-acre site at 111 S Ashley Drive on the Hillsborough River.

2007 May 30, James Thorner, “Trump pulls out of project”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 123, number 310, St. Petersburg, Fla.: Times Publishing Co., page 10A, column 2:

Former New Yorkers are our signature human resource. Without them, we’d be a Trump-less backwater, an oceanfront Bradenton, a place where full-contact shopping, recreational medical treatment and Liza Minnelli tickets would be unattainable fantasies.

2009 February 25, Frank Cerabino, “New Yorkers need to feel more at home”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 101, number 18, West Palm Beach, Fla., page 1B, column 1:

In a normal (meaning Trump-less) campaign, Bush’s address at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California would have made more of a splash.

2015 August 13, E.J. Dionne, “Meanwhile, as Jeb and Hillary were saying …”, in The Record, North Jersey Media Group Inc., page A-17, column 1:


Sandersism

But Sandersism could easily become a path for becoming as substance-free as where the Republicans are.

2015 January 21, Jonathan Bernstein, “Sanders's siren song in the Democratic debate”, in BusinessMirror, page A10:

The DNC currently finds itself locked in a power struggle between Sandersism and Clintonism.

2018, Robert Gold, "What the left's surge means for the Democrats in 2020", The Highlander (University of California, Riverside), 4 December 2018, page 9

It could be that Sandersism might be a safer bet to hang on to those demographics.

2020, Amanda Wilcox, "Progressive candidates may inspire turnout", Old Black & Gold (Wake Forest University), 27 February 2021, page 9

The political philosophy of Bernie Sanders.


Sanderism

2017 April 20, Cuillin Chastain-Howley, “O'Rourke Senate bid must channel Sanderism”, in The Daily Texan, University of Texas at Austin, page 4:

[…] as noted by the rise of Trumpism and Sanderism in the U.S. presidential election of 2016.

2018, Rosemary Papa, Shadow W. J. Armfield, editors, The Wiley Handbook of Educational Policy, page 19:

It could be that the rise of Sanderism just after the withering away of those earlier movements is what makes the connection, in the minds of many, between the movements and his campaign so vivid, so strong.

2020 April, Jason E. Smith, “Life Comes At You Fast”, in The Brooklyn Rail:


Bernista

Sure, he's fond of cheesy dad-jokes, but the mayor is winning major cool-dad cred with his Bernista kids this week, getting a sit-down dinner with Bernie Sanders in Burlington.

2016 August 29, “Winners & Losers”, in City & State New York, page 42:

"It's almost like the Bernie Sanders guys are scared! The Bernistas are out in force!"

2017, Scott Conroy, Vote First Or Die: The New Hampshire Primary: America's Discerning, Magnificent, and Absurd Road to the White House, unnumbered page:

Once Trump and Clinton won the nomination of their respective parties, the Bernistas should have held their noses and votes for Clinton.

2018, Frank Perez, "Commentary: Bernie Sanders, Anthony Kennedy and the Supreme Court", Ambush Magazine, 17 July 2018 - 30 July 2018, page 36

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


BernieCare

Blend of Bernie + healthcare, after the pattern of ObamaCare, HillaryCare, etc.

2016 February 3, Paula Dwyer, “BernieCare Looks to Europe; Americans Don't”, in Liberal Opinion Week, page 8:

Senator Lindsey Graham summed up the current situation with precision when he said his main concern is that "Obamacare" is a placeholder for BernieCare."^([sic])

2017 September 29, Star Parker, “Collins irresponsibly blocks health reform”, in The Daily Corinthian, page 4A:

Now, BernieCare wants to put a lot of power and authority into the hands of the government, which has historically lead to corruption and a whole host of other problems.

2018 August 31, Eric Kim, “Why Healthcare Must Be an Exception to the Capitalist System”, in The Amherst Student, Amherst College, page 5:

(US politics) The 2017 Medicare for All bill or any other healthcare reform supported by Bernie Sanders.


Seljook

The sons of Seljook, when sultáns of a vast empire, retained the wandering habits of their ancestor, who pitched his shepherd's tent upon the banks of the Jihon.

1833, Researches of the Rev. E. Smith and Rev. H.G.O. Dwight in Armenia:

After subjecting the Arabians, they founded a vast empire, under the name of the Seljooks, or Seljoukians, so called from the name of Seljook, the first distinguished chief of this people.

The empire of Mahmoud declined after his death, owing to divisions and civil wars, but chiefly to the rise of the great Turkish tribe of the Seljookee, which was so called from the name of their renowned chief Seljook, who, being banished by his khan or chief from Turkistan, passed the Jaxartes with his numerous followers, and settled in the plains of Bokhara, in the neighbourhood of Samarcand, where he embraced the Mahometan religion.

1853, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed., Vol. III, s.v. "Asia", p. 744

(historical) Obsolete form of Seljuk, Seljuk Bey.


Seljook

(historical) Obsolete form of Seljuk, a member of the dynasty or person of the empire.


Seljook

At his death the Seljook empire was divided between his 4 sons, and soon a large number of independent sultanates was formed, which circumstance finally caused the ruin of the Seljook dominion.

1885, Frederick A.P. Barnard & al., Johnson's New General Cyclopaedia..., s.v. "Seljooks or Seljuks"

(historical) Obsolete form of Seljuk, of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.


Seljuck

/ˈsɛlˌd͡ʒʌk/

One circumstance... which must have greatly contributed to the preservation of written and traditional history in the East, is pride of blood; upon which their great men value themselves far beyond the proudest European grandee. Genealogy has consequently been cultivated with singular attention.—Seljuck, the founder of the Seljuckian dynasty of the Turks, claimed kinship to Afrasiab, an ancient King of Scythia or Touran.

1786, Charles Vallancey, “Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland”, in Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, volume IV, page 322:


Seljuck

/ˈsɛlˌd͡ʒʌk/

Using the Seljucks and Osmanlies—that is, the western Turanians—as its instruments, the Semitic faith of the crescent carried these barbarian converts to the supremacy of western Asia, and ultimately to the conquest of Constantinople.

1869 October, J. W. Jackson, “The Aryan and the Semite”, in The Anthropological Review, volume 7, number 27, page 334:


Seljuck

/ˈsɛlˌd͡ʒʌk/

At Mowr, Nizam Oolmulk, the Great Vizier of Malek Shah, of the Seljuck dynasty, established a school, and since that time, as the Turcomauns assured Wolff, a school is kept up there though centuries have passed.

1861, Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, page 557:

Internal dissensions and the invasion of the Seljuck Turks put an end to the Bagration dynasty, and its last remaining scion became King of Georgia.

1872, A Journey Through the Caucasus and the Interior of Persia, page 66:


let's go, Brandon

From a 2021 interview with racing driver Brandon Brown when a reporter incorrectly described NASCAR fans chanting "fuck Joe Biden" as chanting "let's go, Brandon".

When Republican Rep. Bill Posey of Florida ended an Oct. 21 House floor speech with a fist pump and the phrase “Let’s go, Brandon!” it may have seemed cryptic and weird to many who were listening.

[2021 October 31, Colleen Long, “How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became code for insulting Joe Biden”, in AP News, Associated Press:

“A sieve of a southern border, the supply chain massacred, food prices rising by the day, crime rampant in big cities and being browbeaten continuously by Beijing. Yes, he is a real success.” Flanagan then adds sarcastically, “One more thing, ‘Let's Go Brandon.’”

2021 November 11, Mark Bonokoski, quoting Steve Flanagan, “BONOKOSKI: ‘Let's go Brandon! Let's go Brandon!’”, in Toronto Sun:

State Rep. Dave Williams, who is challenging eight-term GOP congressman Doug Lamborn in an intraparty contest, sued Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold last week after her office rejected allowing his name to appear on the ballot as Dave “Let's Go Brandon” Williams.

2022 April 30, John Dorman, “Colorado Supreme Court says GOP lawmaker can't use ‘Let's Go Brandon’ nickname on congressional ballot”, in Business Insider:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene visited a D.C. jail to check on conditions for the Jan. 6 defendants, with Republican lawmakers handshaking and high-fiving the prisoners, who chanted “Let's Go Brandon!” – a coded vulgarity against President Joe Biden – as the group left.

2023 March 27, “X, y, z: News from around our 50 states”, in USA Today, page B3:

(US, slang, US politics) A euphemism for “fuck Joe Biden”.

Bill Posey
Brandon Brown (racing driver)
United States House of Representatives


Polonius

After the character of Polonius in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

From the winged words of corporation executives, from the pulpits of economic Poloniuses, the same evil is identified and decried: the collapse of productivity. But are the sermons total myths?

2012, George Caffentzis, In Letters of Blood and Fire, page 30:


GQP

Blend of GOP + QAnon.
The GOP stands for "Grand Old Party", the Republican Party of the United States of America, a conservative political party. The usage of "Q" refers to Republican politicians either supporting the QAnon conspiracy theories, or becoming closer to extremism and fascism, represented by the more militant members of the QAnon groups.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) The Republican Party, especially politicians and members who align themselves with militant extremism.


Qaren

Blend of QAnon + Karen. It was first used in a viral video on Twitter posted on 2020, mocking a woman who got angry at a doctor for not administering hydroxychloroquine to treat a COVID-19 infection.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A supporter of QAnon, especially female, who has a hostile and irrational attitude.


let's go Brandon

let's go, Brandon
let's go, Brandon#English


Qult

(derogatory) The cultlike following of the QAnon movement.


Qultist

Blend of Q (“QAnon”) + cultist, equivalent to Qult + -ist.

(derogatory) A cultlike follower of the QAnon movement.


God Emperor

God + Emperor. Its use in reference to the Emperor of Japan is a calque of Japanese 天皇 (tennō, literally “heavenly sovereign/emperor”), referring to the emperor's descent from the sun goddess Amaterasu.
In reference to Donald Trump, from Trump-supporting Internet users humorously depicting him as the God-Emperor of Mankind, a character from the British science fiction tabletop game Warhammer 40,000.

cal

The meme was from Trump's cameo at WrestleMania 23 a decade prior, and in it he tackled WWE owner Vince McMahon before pummeling him on ... Several of his fellow users were congratulating him for getting “the God Emperor's” attention.

2017, Jared Yates Sexton, The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage, Catapult, →ISBN:

Just days after his election, Trump reaffirmed his campaign commitments to shut down Muslim immigration by signing an ... and with the election over and the man the AltRight called “the god emperor” on his way to the White House, ...

2017, George Hawley, Making Sense of the Alt-Right, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

To the 4chan boys Trump was a hero, the social failure in chief, a clown prince. They called him the God Emperor, a swaggering fat Daddy, who, as one commentator put it, would put a car in every white man's drive and an Aryan woman in ...

2018, Javaad Alipoor, The Believers are But Brothers, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

“Trump is willing to say what most Americans think: It's time to deport these people,” Anglin declared, ... and avid campaign volunteers, referring to Trump with extravagant nicknames such as “Our Great God Emperor,” “the Nimble ...

2018, Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, American Jewish Year Book 2017: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities, Springer, →ISBN, page 136:

Pepe had already been frequently portrayed as a Trump supporter on social media sites. ... a quick browse through the rabid Trump sub-Reddit the_donald will notice many of its members exalting the politician with the title “God Emperor."

2019, Grant Kien, Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 190:

... Donald J. Trump'.46 This 380,000-strong group refers to Donald Trump as 'daddy' and 'the God Emperor',and gains its identity by standing against liberalism, feminism, intellectualism, and much more besides ...

2019, Fay Bound Alberti, A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 130:

Trump won. They'd made these Photoshopped pictures of Trump flying around on his victory horse, through the gates of heaven, with a crown on his head and his golden sword. They call him the God Emperor.” “That sounds awful.” “I know.

2019, Blake Nelson, The Red Pill: A Novel, Bombardier Books, →ISBN:

Our Glorious Leader has ascended to God Emperor.”1 Ten days after Trump's election, the National Policy Institute, the generically named but emphatically white-nationalist think tank led by professional racist Richard Spencer, ...

2020, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Legacy Lit, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, US politics, humorous) Donald Trump, American politician and 45th president of the United States.


Shakespearologist

We learn that “Mr. G. Linnæus Banks, the eminent Shakespearologist and Shakespearolator,” is coming to America to “orate.”

1873 August 24, The Missouri Republican, number 15,880, St. Louis, Mo., page 4, column 3:

This constant effort to hamper and confine the works of genius within the narrow limits of time and space, is matched by the pedantry of the German Shakespearologists (an abominable word to express a horrid thing), one of whom is reported to have devoted a lengthy treatise to discussing the question whether Juliet’s nurse’s husband really was “a merry man,” as his widow claimed him to be, or whether it was not more likely that he had been a very serious character, transformed after death into a memory of what his widow would have liked him to be.

1875 October 18, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, volume 1, number 152, St. Louis, Mo., page 4, column 4:

We are sure to find here “the better opinion” of the most expert Shakespearologists.

1889 August 19, “The Henry Irving Shakespeare”, in The Pall Mall Gazette, volume XLIX, number 7619, London, page 2, column 3:

Otherwise I shall offer it on the same terms to the united nations for the construction of a mid-Atlantic homesite as a substitute for the one Mr. Eugene Tunney, the Shakespearologist, is so reluctant to surrender.

1946 February 8, Commodore, “What Price Kansas?”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CV, number 34, Chicago, Ill., page 16, column 3:

The overall winner of a pair of tickets to the RSC’s autumn production of his choice, is Richard Fife of Nottingham, whose answer to the tie-breaker, asking why he would be a good Shakespearologist, was the most drily succinct: “I have receding hair and a small beard. I was once ordinary Brain of Britain. I love Shakespeare. My answers would be usually entertaining and often right.”

1994 August 4, “Results of the Bard Brain Contest”, in Evening Standard, London, page 29:


Obamaitis

(politics, informal, derogatory) The state of supporting or being similar to Barack Obama (American politician), said as if it were due to a disease or affliction.


Trumpitis

From Trump + -itis, by affiliation with diseases formed with the suffix.

Evidently, even President Obama has become afflicted with Trumpitis. For only this explains the conceited and crass clarion call he issued to ...

2017, Anthony Livingston Hall, The Ipinions Journal: Commentaries on the Global Events of 2016—Volume Xii, iUniverse, →ISBN:

Slimicus Trumpitis June 30 If Pence and Trump knew or should have known of the bounties being placed by the Russian government on the heads of young American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan, I must make a wish, one that I never thought ...

2020, Richard Castellane, The I Hate Trump Book: Past, Present & Future*, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

So we all need to learn to disinfect ourselves daily, to clean our souls of 'Trumpitis', by not rushing to the media to see the latest insult or outrage, and by learning to look with quietness and discernment at what is transpiring in ...

2020, Chris Schaefer, Re-Imagining America, Hawthorn Press, →ISBN:

The nation also was in the midst of an outbreak of dreaded acute Trumpitis. After 690 days into the administration of the best president we have one third of the nation was recovering from a previous attack of the malady, one third was ...

2020, Marvin Kitman, Gullible's Travels: A Comical History of the Trump Era, Seven Stories Press, →ISBN:

(politics, informal, derogatory) The state of supporting or being similar to Donald Trump (American politician).


From a phrase read from a ship's bell by a character in the 1996 movie White Squall. The phrase itself means "Where one of us goes, we will go together," or "We will go together with any one of our members."

But this particular image, posted in March by the Utah-based fashion, beauty, and parenting influencer Jalynn Schroeder to more than 50,000 followers, is accompanied by a series of hashtags that includes the initialism WWG1WGA—“Where we go one, we go all”—a motto used by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

2020 August 18, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful”, in The Atlantic:

Their rallying cry is "where we go one, we go all," a line from the 1996 Jeff Bridges sailing adventure "White Squall" that they misattribute to President Kennedy. The phrase is frequently abbreviated to "WWG1WGA," which Roseanne Barr — one of several celebrity QAnon supporters — tweeted in June 2018.

“Where we go one, we go all,” erupted the crowd in a QAnon chant that’s frequently abbreviated to WWG1WGA in online messaging boards like 4chan, where the cult began.

2024 January 23, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “A Creepy QAnon Chant Rises at Trump’s Rally—and He Nods and Smiles”, in The New Republic:

(US politics) Initialism of where we go one, we go all: a popular slogan of QAnon believers.


Gloriana

Coined by English poet Edmund Spenser to represent Elizabeth I in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590), from Latin gloria (“glory”).

After Mr. Smith’s decease, she m. for a 2d husband, and as his 2d wife, Dr. George Muirson of Setauket, L. I. (son of Rev. George Muirson of Hempstead, L. I., and Gloriana Smith, dau. of Col. William Smith).

1874, Benjamin W[oodbridge] Dwight, The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., volume I, New York, N.Y.: John F. Trow & Son, […], page 1103:

The little stranger is named Gloriana Craig. She arrived on June 24, 1922.

1922, Union Electric Quarterly, page 20:

When I was the ripe age of 17, I met a girl named Gloriana at an out-of-state sports meet.

2002, Mary-Lou Galician, quoting Brent (name changed), Sex, Love, & Romance in the Mass Media: Analysis & Criticism of Unrealistic Portrayals & Their Influence, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 127:

Through an acquaintance with his mother’s neighbor, Robert Bourassa, he met a woman named Gloriana LaPointe.

2009, Edith Reynolds, John Murray, Wicked Waterbury: Madmen & Mayhem in the Brass City, The History Press, →ISBN:


Gippermania

After eight years of Ronald Reagan and Gippermania, Bush and Dukakis both have their work cut out for them.

1988, The Illustrated London News, volume 276, page 102:

I saw him as a Reagan hangover, and unlike my fellow citizens, I had never cared much for Ronnie. Maybe I was just in a bad mood from being in prison, or maybe, by dint of being inside, I was immune to the raging Gippermania that hit the country.

2000, Lydia Millet, George Bush, Dark Prince of Love: A Presidential Romance, page 17:

There was only a one-week frenzy window between Gippermania and the pending Clinton memoir, and Weinstein flew right through it.

2004 June 17, Tina Brown, “Democrats Warm To 'Fahrenheit 9/11'”, in The Washington Post:

(informal, rare) Enthusiasm for actor and American president Ronald Reagan.


Gipper

From Reagan's role as George "The Gipper" Gipp (1895-1920) in the 1940 film Knute Rockne, All American, which lead to him acquiring the nickname "the Gipper," later popularized by the media during his presidency.

It took no more than a jaunty one-liner in the second presidential debate—"I refuse to hold my opponent's youth against him"—for large numbers of people to be reassured that if the Gipper had ever been out of it, he was now back.

1992, Michael Weiler, W. Barnett Pearce, Reagan and Public Discourse in America, page 137:

Over the eight years of the Reagan presidency, the Gipper asked Congress for $16.1 billion more in spending than it passed into law.

1999, Al Franken, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, page 126:

[…] most of the Ford vote from 1976, which Bush had hoped to claim, went heavily for the Gipper.

2014, Craig Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America, unnumbered page:

A nickname for American actor and politician Ronald Reagan.


Gipperite

When Kevin Phillips's The Politics of Rich and Poor hit the bestseller list last summer, the Gipperites began to squeal like a worn-out fan belt in a used Toyota.

1994, Samuel T. Francis, Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism, page 199:

Even the most antigovernment of Gipperites weren't ready to turn their back on the war on drugs, as Cato urged, but program cutting, bashing, these sorts of things were right in the main.

2007, Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, pages 452–453:

[Elephant reading a bedtime story titled Prez Race '08 to its child]: Then the Gipperites discovered there was no such thing as a Bushie. It had all been just a bad dream.

2007, Etta Hulme, political cartoon published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 May 2007

(rare) A supporter of Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), 40th president of the United States (1981–1989), and/or policies that he endorsed.


Gipperism

Here is a dose of pure Gipperism from 1981, amid the budget wars: “Long before there was a government welfare program, th[e] spirit of voluntary giving was ingrained in the American character.”

1992, Jay Nordlinger, “Giving Thanks”, in The Weekly Standard, published 1995 November 27, page 4:

Most liberals haven't figured it out yet, but the fraud of Gipperism is on the ash heap of history.

1997 February 25, BretCahill, “Ken Starr's Misjudgment...”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

The earlier Bush, the 41st president, campaigned for the White House in 1988 as the heir to Ronald Reagan but then broke faith with Gipperism, most notably when he repudiated his “read my lips, no new taxes” pledge

2001 July 12, James P. Pinkerton, “For the Nation, This Bush May Be Just Right”, in Los Angeles Times:

The political philosophy of U.S. president Ronald Reagan.


DeSatan

2021 September 11, “Killing Florida Schooĺ Kids -- DeSatan's Goal”, in political-euwetopia (Usenet):

Joseph Kleinplatz, a protester who referred to the Florida governor as "DeSatan," told the New York Jewish Week that it's "wrong" to have him in the city. "The Jewish religion is not about hate," he said.

2022 June 12, Jacob Henry, “Ron DeSantis calls out 'woke gender ideology' in speech to Jewish group in Manhattan”, in NY Jewish Week, Jewish Telegraphic Agency:


Byzas

Learned borrowing from Latin Bȳzās, from Ancient Greek Βύζας (Búzas).

Romulus and Byzas are obviously parallel figures not only in their capacity as founders, but also in their genealogies.

2019, Marion Kruse, The Politics of Roman Memory: From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 49:

(Ancient Greece) The legendary founder of Byzantium.


Hitlerphobia

Something, however, that looked good in print evolved, the Intergovernmental Coference on Refugees. With the announcement of its creation, the doomed victims of Hitlerphobia caught a glimmer of hope. The glimmer turned to despair as the horrors deepened.

1944, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, U.S. Government Printing Office, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87:

The title of Mr. Taylor's book is not, then, its only fraud: under the guise of “revision" it substitutes for blatant Germanophobia and Hitlerphobia an infinitely more subtle condemnation of the Fuehrer and his country.

1964, David A. Dunn, Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 197:

But the Hitlerphobia horrified him to such a degree that he lost contact with reality. He was paralyzed. He waited eleven days , till 7/3/1941, till he was in a condition to talk a to the people.

1978, Izaak Goldberg, The Miracles Versus Tyranny, Philosophical Library, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:

However, in an article written by Fromm entitled ‘The Jewish Defence League - Kosher Conservatives?’ (Straight Talk, vol. 3, no. 5, January-February 1971), it is stated that the JDL suffers from Hitlerphobia and that its only concern is with anti-Semitism.

1987, Stanley R. Barrett, Is God a Racist?: The Right Wing in Canada, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 65:

It is as facile for Mr. Kupchan to dismiss such fears as Russophobia as it was for Mr. Chamberlain to dismiss the prewar fears of Germany's neighbors as Hitlerphobia.

2006, Jan Nowak, Polska droga do NATO: listy, dokumenty, publikacje (Archiwum Jana Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego w Zakładzie Narodowym im. Ossolińskich), Tow. Przyjaciół Ossolineum, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 269:

You're missing the point. This is about the fact that this content is not
appropriate for the page its listed on, not about any kind of hitlerphobia.

2007 November 26, eBoundHost: Artur, “Re: who wrote this”, in muc.lists.freebsd.chat (Usenet):

Hitlerphobia is so pronounced in the West that Austria may
demolish Hitler’s birthplace for no good reason.

2016 June 15, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Hitlerphobia!”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):


Muskian

en-adj

Muskian (comparative more Muskian, superlative most Muskian)

more Muskian (comparative)
most Muskian (superlative)

“Who is the best PR person in the world?” he asked in a very Muskian fashion.[…]He’s an optimist by nature, and it can feel like he makes calculations for how long it will take to do something based on the idea that things will progress without flaw at every step and that all the members of his team have Muskian abilities and work ethics.

2015, Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Is Shaping Our Future, Virgin Books, →ISBN, pages 2 and 231:

Why anyone still pays any heed to Muskian pricing pronouncements is beyond me.

2019 December 5, David Booth, “Motor Mouth: The good, the bad and, whoa, ugly!”, in Windsor Star, page B12:

Together, the essays in this volume seek to assemble withdrawal as a concept that, in turn, may help us to identify, regroup, and understand apparently diverging political and socio-cultural phenomena ranging from[…]to the Trumpian/Muskian fantasies of intergalactic colonization disenchanted by Sharma in the coda to this book.

2020, Pepita Hesselberth, Joost de Bloois, “Introduction: Toward a Politics of Withdrawal?”, in Politics of Withdrawal: Media, Arts, Theory, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 3:

Hindsight even allowed for Muskian humor.[…]Musk had forecast rapid scale, but his team dismissed it as Muskian hyperbole.

2022, Jimmy Soni, The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the Company that Made the Modern Internet, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

Of or pertaining to Elon Musk (born 1971), entrepreneur and business magnate.


Baháʼu'lláh

/bəˈhɑːʊˌlɑː/

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَهَاءُاللّٰه (bahā'u-l-lāh), from Arabic بَهَاءُ ٱللّٰه (bahāʔu llāh, literally “glory of God”).

bor

بَهَاءُاللّٰه

der

بَهَاءُ ٱللّٰه

Born Mírzá Ḥusayn-`Alí Núrí (1817–1892), Persian religious leader, prophet-founder of the Baháʼí Faith.


Turdeau

This stupid experiment in social engineering began under Turdeau back in the late sixties with the francoization of both radio and TV English stations and channels.

1995 December 5, Cerise Lopez, “French TV in English Canada a Shocking Waste of Taxpayers' Money”, in ont.general (Usenet):

Chretien is yesterday's man. He failed Canada along with Turdeau back in the 1960s and '70s and he is failing us again.

1996 November 10, George Skorpios, “Re: Conrad Black supports Reform Party”, in ont.general (Usenet):

This does not mean, however, that the Liberals in Ottawa under Jean Chretien have reformed from the wasteful, irrational spending of the Turdeau era.

1997 October 8, Erik Trammel, “Auditor-General Assails Ottawa Grits' Crazy Spending”, in ont.general (Usenet):

(Canada, derogatory) A nickname for Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau.

Turdeau...not ready, not smart, likes carbon tax.

2015 August 23, Roy, “Re: Mulcair's NDP making inroads in Alberta . . . .”, in can.politics (Usenet):

Turdeau has already broken his promise to run a modest 10 billion dollar deficit it only remains to be seen how huge a hole he will dig.

2016 February 23, Greg Carr, “Re: Liberals Shuckin' & Jivin' Over Deficit.”, in can.politics (Usenet):

The tail doesn't wag the dog. The Americans allowed this. Turdeau has ZERO influence.

2019 May 17, Liberals are VERMIN!, “Re: Another major coup for our Trudeau government . . .”, in can.politics (Usenet):

(Canada, derogatory) A nickname for Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.


Trudope

Trudope spews all the right cliche progressy talking points, such as aboriginal consultation, then he flips the aboriginals the bird […]

2017 April 11, Chom Noamsky, “‘We are very disappointed’: Loss of Northern Gateway devastating for many First Nations, chiefs say”, in can.politics (Usenet):

We spend millions processing illegal immigrants each year after Trudope told them to come here […]

2019 February 4, Greg Carr, “Law Enforcement In Canada Overwhelmed By Online Child Porn.”, in can.politics (Usenet):

March against Trudope and his tyranny. This march is your march. Make your voice heard.

2019 October 15, Covfefe (quoting a Million Canadian March press release), “[Breitbart Sedition] City police call B.S. on Breitbart report of massive pro-Trump Ottawa Parliament Hill rally”, in can.politics (Usenet):


Tricky Dick

Coined in the 1950 Californian Senate election, due to allegations Nixon was deliberately misrepresenting himself as a Democrat. Later associated with the Watergate scandal.

Look at “Tricky Dick” Nixon's Republican Record!

1950 June 5, Veterans Democratic Committee, “Warning to All Democrats!”, in Los Angeles Daily News:

1950 United States Senate election in California


Scroogesque

en-adj

Scroogesque (comparative more Scroogesque, superlative most Scroogesque)

more Scroogesque (comparative)
most Scroogesque (superlative)

The Tories have been positively Scroogesque with our accumulated billions.

1981 May 21, William Thorsell, “Life’s a ball, a Fund-thing”, in Edmonton Journal, page A4:

To me, growing increasingly Scroogesque, each day is a Winterreise, without the snow, the linden tree, the cold (though a chute or two is pneumonia-drafty) or the weather-vane.

1986, Studs Terkel, Chicago, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 2:

I mean three years ago in this very supplement of your newspaper some fool actually wrote an article called ‘How to Ruin Your Child’s Christmas’. That kind of stuff gets back to me and it hurts. I mean, we can do without that sort of Scroogesque rubbish.

1987 December 24, “Santa Claus”, quotee, “The Santa Interview”, in The Age, 134th year, number 41,364, page 1:

Many gardeners are lukewarm toward poinsettias. The main trouble with them is they stay in bloom till March, but I suppose it’s Scroogesque to complain of a pot plant that behaves so well.

1988 December 23, Henry Mitchell, “‘Rotten’ gifts for gardeners grow cheer”, in The Daily Sentinel, volume 97, number 23, Grand Junction, Colo., page 1C:

The great guru X Moore, former lead singer of Trotskyist skinhead band The Redskins, took a less Scroogesque view. He claimed that Xmas is but a foretaste of the coming socialist millennium[…]

To the Scroogesque reference to a Christmas party which I attended, along with City staff, I must clear up the events that actually took place.

1995 January 19, “An Open Letter to the Community from Willie Preston, Mayor Pro Tem”, in Lincoln News Messenger, volume 104, number 16, Lincoln, Calif., page 3:

Gardner suggests the perfect gift for the person in your life who has it all — nothing! It’s not as Scroogesque as it sounds. She recommends giving a gift from her Global Gift Guide instead. Such gifts might include clothing and shelter for a homeless child in Vietnam for $35 a month or dental exams for children in Cambodia.

1996 December 10, Dolores Tropiano, “Putting Heart in the Holidays: Generous deeds bring out true meaning of the season”, in The Arizona Republic, 107th year, number 206, Phoenix, Ariz., page C1:

I’ve owned and ridden a motorcycle for three years, and on Sunday morning I took part in the 20th annual Vancouver Toy Run for the third time. It is a great event that provides a little bit of joy not only for the participants, but also for the thousands of Lower Mainland children who are recipients of the donated toys. I’m saddened by Burnaby’s Scroogesque attitude to the Toy Run, as are many others (‘Families disadvantaged’ by disappointing run, Oct. 26).

1998 October 29, Mike Stanger, “Happy event hurt by image of bikers as bad guys”, in The Vancouver Sun, page A18:

Of course, I love giving gifts, because I’m a loving and giving sorta girl. But not that loving and giving, because I’ll only do it on my terms, which unfortunately also means that I don’t like giving gifts when you’re meant to give them. So I am rubbish at birthdays and only slightly better at Christmas (and then only because I like expensive, glitzily-themed wrapping concepts). The problem is, I worry so extraordinarily about getting it right that, forever teetering on the brink of extravagant impulse buys and Scroogesque denial, I sometimes don’t get it at all rather than get it remotely wrong.

1998 November 22, The Observer, page 44:

What is it about each passing Christmas that causes the next to seem so appealing? Maybe it’s the fact that the next is a full year away! That may seem Scroogesque, but there is a bit of truth in it for a lot of adults.

1998 December 24, Clay McFerrin, “What’s in the value of a gift?”, in The Charleston Sun-Sentinel, volume 75, number 52, Charleston, Miss., page 4:

Buying shoes without shoe boxes bespeaks cheapness of Scroogesque proportions.

2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 96:

The lines, in short, suggest themselves as a Scroogesque anti-echo of verse written at the century’s start: / My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, / Dishes of agat set in gold, and studded / With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths and rubies.

2003, Anthony Fowles, John Dryden: A Critical Study, Greenwich Exchange, page 92:

Although overall holiday-sales forecasts range from Panglossian to Scroogesque, analysts agree that online shopping is booming.

2003 December 15, Paul Andrews, “Christmas Clicking”, in U.S. News & World Report, page 42:

Perhaps I’m being a little Scroogesque to inform Susie “No Mates” Rushton about all the beautiful Christmas cards that have been dropping heavily into our hallway, courtesy of our friendly postman.

2008 December 24, David Fee, quotee, The Independent, number 6,925, page 26:

Truth is for me I didn't know whether it was managerial incompetence or planned Scroogesque mismanagement. Always being such a tight arse to this extreme is bad management in the restaurant game.

2014, Stephen Scala, Curly Dish Pig Tales, Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 123:

Resembling or characteristic of Ebenezer Scrooge; bad-tempered, selfish and miserly.


Trumpoid

Likewise, could the Washington Post and New York Times, which leaked various versions of the claim , have motives (both papers are Clintonist rather than Trumpoid, and the Post has for years been an especially keen supporter of the Syrian intervention that lies at the core of the current tension between Washington and Moscow)?

2016 December 17, J. Nielsen, “Artan`s klage”, in dk.politik (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-23:

(US politics, Internet slang) Pertaining to Donald Trump.


Trumpoid

However, the IP is currently in disarray, split between the Buchananites and the Trumpoids. Even though Trump is not in the presidential race, the Trumpoids would prefer to endorse no-one for president and concentrate on state politics. Trump has recently started working on behalf of Giuliani to sieze the IP nomination.

2000 May 12, Alex Elliott, “Putting the "head" back in "Campaign Headquarters"”, in alt.peeves (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-23:

One of our local guru type pigeon keepers is a Trumpoid no masker...the same guy who defied the governor's order and kept his barbershop open when everything was closed down...

2020 October 26, LaRocca (Tony), “Final Report 70th GSC”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-23:

The USA has far too many Trumpoid anti-vax idiots to make herd immunity a reality.

2021 May 8, Omni Vore, “Opinion | We'll Have Herd Immunity by April”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

(US politics, Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) A supporter of Donald Trump.


Comical Ali

Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
w:Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf


Pootin

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the notion that anything pootin says is worth listening to...
is a form of self-delusion...

2017 April 8, abelard, “pootin will tell any lie with a flat face”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

‘Tsar Pootin’ was pissed that America wasn’t […] treating Russia as an equal partner.

2017, The Republic: Traitor, R.R. Quaggiato:

Windopws^([sic]) is full of swiss cheese. And Pootin's government workers are rebelling over the threat to their grannies because they love Linux more than grannies, but grannies are more important than Pootin. Novachooking Pootin and anyone who mentions Windopws^([sic]) is one option being considered by rebels in St. Pootersberg.

2018 October 20, 7, “Linux threatens to destabilize Pootin's government over Novachooking grannies”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

St. Petersberg is to be cleared of all Linux users unless they
want their knobs novachooked and the city is to be renamed St. Pootiberg
demands Pootin who is distant relative of Raspootin.

2018 November 10, I, “Pootin kills Muscovites accusing them of being Linux users, threatens St. Petersberg users with Novachook”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

Pootin is always threatening the planet with nuclear annihilation, but
it may not come in the form of rockets but rather typical Russian stupidity.

2022 August 5, JeSSe, “ANOTHER nuclear power plant ready to cook thanks to Pootin and his Orcs”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

(politics, slang, derogatory, vulgar) Vladimir Putin.


Putinite

(politics) A supporter of Putin or of his policies.


Obamaesque

Obamaesque (comparative more Obamaesque, superlative most Obamaesque)

more Obamaesque (comparative)
most Obamaesque (superlative)

He’s [W. Lane Startin] a top Democratic candidate at U4prez.com, a Web site for those who dream of one day holding the nation’s premier political title. Since joining the site last month, Startin’s meteoric rise can be described only as Obamaesque.

2007 March 13, Matt Christensen, “Hail to the chief: Twin Falls man has (virtual) aspirations”, in Times-News, page D5:

[John C.] Turner, who lives in Cumberland on Vancouver Island, has joined his joke-party’s horny Rhinos Redux comeback. He’s trumpeting an Obamaesque campaign promise of “change you can’t believe in.”

2008 March 1, Doug Ward, “Rhino party wants to abolish the environment”, in The Vancouver Sun, page B8:

While campaigning in Pennsylvania last week, presidential hopeful Barack Obama bowled a 37 and the world has pretty much flipped on its head as a result.[…]I once contemplated ending my current relationship based on an Obamaesque performance by the GF at a bowling outing.

2008 April 9, Pete Cunningham, “Don’t let bowling ability skew opinions”, in The Homer Index, volume 136, number 15, page four:

“Critics say that my plan is too big, that it costs $1.9 trillion,” was [Joe] Biden’s Obamaesque reply to questions regarding his $2 trillion plan.

2021 March 2, David Harsanyi, “It’s Christmas for Democrats”, in The Star Democrat, volume 220, number 136, Easton, Md., page A4:


Obama-esque

Obama-esque (comparative more Obama-esque, superlative most Obama-esque)

more Obama-esque (comparative)
most Obama-esque (superlative)

‘24’ presidential story line has Obama-esque feel / A youngish, African-American politician becomes president. He’s relatively untested and rode to the highest office in the land on a wave of goodwill — but is he ready for the job? Does it sound like the hypothetical presidency of Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois’ own presidential hopeful?

2007 January 21, Chicago Tribune, 160th year, number 21, section 7, page 16:

John McCain’s Obama-esque remarks about our “wasted” resources in Iraq weren’t the only comments that landed him in hot water after a recent appearance on “Late Show With David Letterman.”

2007 March 7, radaronline.com, quotee, “E-Opinion: The best of the political blogs”, in Daily News, page 27:

[Mitt] Romney, the cautious consultant, is pivoting to stress his corporate competence, and is rebranding himself as an Obama-esque change agent, but he will never make the sort of daring break that independent voters will demand if they are going to give the GOP another look.

2008 January 2, David Brooks, “If Romney wins, so will Democrats”, in Intelligencer Journal, 214th year, number 168, Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Newspapers Inc., page A10:

After beginning with some more high-minded, even Obama-esque comments about what our country is, [Joe] Biden turned to the coronavirus.

2020 August 22, Aaron Blake, “Democrats’ four big takeaways”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXIX, number 140, page A5:

Resembling or characteristic of Barack Obama (born 1961), American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.


Putinise

en-verb

Putinise (third-person singular simple present Putinises, present participle Putinising, simple past and past participle Putinised)

Putinises (present singular third-person)
Putinising (participle present)
Putinised (participle past)
Putinised (past)

(politics, transitive, somewhat derogatory) To take over power employing allegedly undemocratic means.


Obiden

Obiden super fans, we've got amazing news for you. If, like us, you were a bit scared distance would put a damper on President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden's epic bromance, it's time to cast those fears aside. The iconic duo is still the best of friends, even if they aren't working together anymore.

2017 May 18, Andrea González-Ramírez, “Obama & Biden Are Still The Best Of Friends”, in Refinery29:

(US politics, informal, often derogatory) The political union of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

(US politics, informal, often derogatory) The continuation of the policies of Barack Obama under the administration of Joe Biden.


Wulfila

(historical) An Arian Gothic bishop (ca. 311–383), who translated the Bible into the Gothic language


Pooty

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(slang, derogatory) Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.


Pooty-Poot

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

(slang, sometimes derogatory) Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.


Rocketman

Coined by Donald Trump in September 19, 2017 for a United Nations speech, in reference to Kim's launch of military rockets.

coined

Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime.

Little Rocketman has totally misrepresented denuke plan we offered. Deals can't get made when there is no trust! Fat kid blew it and will be sorry. Sad!
[…]
Rocketman's sister IS NOT North Korea's IVANKA. Ivanka is 6 feet tall. She's got the best body. Rocketman's sister is flat as a board!

2018 August 7, Dr Jeffrey Lewis, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC:

It wouldn't surprise me. I thought Trump was using Bolton as the "bad cop" in
North Korea, and would use him to annoy Rocketman, then fire him and be the
"good cop".

2019 October 2, Rick Sabian, “THE WHISTLE BLOWER IS”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

Today in North Korea we see the lasting Karma of those events where the Japanese mutilated millions for the sheer lust of it. And North Korea's Rocketman wins the fearful adoration of his peoples in consequence.

2019 October 23, RANCE DEWITT, AMAZON COVENANT 2020 TRUMP and BOLSONARO, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC:

(slang, humorous, derogatory, neologism) North Korean politician Kim Jong-un.


Zelenskyy

Transliteration of Ukrainian Зеле́нський (Zelénsʹkyj).

translit

Volodymyr Zelenskyy (born 1978), Ukrainian politician, the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019.


Xitler

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Calque from Chinese 習特勒／习特勒 (Xítèlè). Blend of Xi + Hitler. Compare English Putler (“Vladimir Putin”). Introduced into English by reports of a 2016 incident where a man was arrested for wearing a "Xitler" T-shirt.

zh-m

習特勒／习特勒 (Xítèlè)

(derogatory) Xi Jinping (Chinese leader)


deputinization

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(neologism, politics) The process of the removal of the influence of Vladimir Putin from politics.

deputinizasiya

the process of the removal of the influence of Vladimir Putin from politics


purple shirt of sex

The play's promotional art features Cumberbatch-as-Sherlock (wearing the character's purple shirt of sex, as fans have called it) in front of a red-and-white heart-shaped bull's eye-style target.

2014, Lynnette Porter, Benedict Cumberbatch, Transition Completed: Films, Fame, Fans, unnumbered page:

She stays with the brown and white color scheme, but adds a purple stripe and fringe to the ends to represent Sherlock's “purple shirt of sex.”

2016, Brigid Cherry, Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles: Handicrafting as Fan Art, page 109:

Little did they know, there would soon be legions of fans armed with evidence to the contrary like the button-down that was labeled the “Purple Shirt of Sex,” because, well, it was both fairly low cut and stirred all kinds of feelings.

2020, Esther Zuckerman, A Field Guide to Internet Boyfriends: Meme-Worthy Celebrity Crushes from A to Z, unnumbered page:

(Sherlock fandom slang) A tailored royal-purple dress shirt worn by Sherlock Holmes (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch) on the television series Sherlock.


Procopius

Via Latin Procopius from Koine Greek Προκόπῐος (Prokópios), from Ancient Greek προκοπή (prokopḗ, “progress forward to prosperity; advancement toward success; improvement by diligence”), with Latin suffix -ius equivalent to Greek suffix -ῐος (-ios).

der

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Procopius of Caesarea, a Byzantine Greek historian of the 6th century C.E.


Obongo

Blend of Obama + bongo. Compare Bongo Bongo Land.

Obongo doesn't sound much like a Grik name, Pants?
Hussein does, though! LOL.

2008 June 6, Eli Grubman, “Obongo's uncle liberated Auschwitz”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Unprecedented chatter coming from such a high level, unbecoming of this position, for very becoming for the Halfrikan.
Gutter talk like this is always reserved for low party functionaries or hired guns - But Obongo, low class half breed that he is, has no problem at all sinking into the gutter, and demeaning the office of the presidency while hes at it.

2010 November 1, Jesse, “Race baiter Obongo at it again”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Another day in Mr. & Mr. Obongo's anti-White Zio-Marxist America -- a six month prison sentence meted out to a drunken White college prankster who draped a rope around a statue of James Meredith -- the ex-Air Force serviceman whose determination to become the first Black man to attend the University of Mississippi was perhaps the biggest news story of 1962.

2015 September 19, Topaz, “Obongo”, in alt.fan.adolf-hitler (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Barack Obama.


Nobama

Nobama has been an elected official 1997.
Governor Sarah Palin has been an elected official 1992.
Nobama has been to Iraq 1 time.
Governor Sarah Palin has been to Iraq 1 time.
Nobama has never held an executive position.
Governor Sarah Palin held executive positions by being mayor of Wasilla, Alaska and governor of the State of Alaska.
Democrats and Obamanics bitch and moan has ran only a small city and state.
What has Nobama run? I can tell you. Nada.

2008 August 31, Berkeley Bolshevik, “Experience? Nobama don't need no steenkin' experience.”, in alt.politics.democrats.d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

This is the environment the Nobama was raised in. This is what he brings to Washington. This is what the US is going to look like shortly.

2009 June 11, CharlesTheCurmudgeon, “OT: Chicago leading the way for Nobama”, in alt.autos.toyota (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

President Nobama and his family will be brutally butchered! Why so?
Well, what did happen to The Russian Tsar and his family during The Russian Revolution? Oh, they all got brutally butchered! And now we have Nobama royally busting his ass to cause an ARMED SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION, therefore I do expect him and his family to end up being brutally butchered.

2010 December 28, Nancy Luft, “### President Nobama & Family will be BRUTALLY BUTCHERED! ###”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:


Bidenflation

(informal, derogatory, humorous) The intense inflation or stagflation in the United States experienced during the Joe Biden presidency.


Bidenist

(US politics) A supporter of American politician and US president Joe Biden.


VVP

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
w:Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

Initialism of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.


Italygate

(US politics) A QAnon-affiliated conspiracy theory alleging that the 2020 United States presidential election was rigged, with satellites and military technology used to switch votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden from the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy.


Cancún Cruz

Referring to Ted Cruz going on vacation to Cancún, Mexico, during the 2021 Texas power crisis.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said the senator shouldn’t have apologized, and the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. complained that people were trying to “cancel Cancún Cruz” — a defense wrapped in a classically Trumpian insulting nickname.

2021 February 19, Lisa Lerer, “How Ted Cruz Became the least sympathetic politician in America”, in New York Times:

You'd think they'd be ashamed of the shenanigans they try / But never Cancun Cruz or Lady G

2021 April 5, “Ted and Lindsey”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics):

Ken dressed up like Cancun Cruz and sang "Margaritaville." When he got to the chorus, everyone joined in and sang, "I tried to say that my kids were to blame, but I know it was my own damn fault."

2021 October 6, Joe Lovato, Blood, Love and Justice, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

We have all read about “Cancun Cruz,” and how he blamed his poor decision to travel to Cancun during Texas’ winter freeze on his daughters.

2022 April 4, “Cruz's actions display a lack of maturity, poor decision-making”, in Austin American-Statesman, page A8:

(US politics, derogatory, neologism) U.S. senator Ted Cruz.


Beijing Biden

A Republican coinage, in the belief that Joe Biden is either amenable to or in direct allegiance with the People's Republic of China.

He described Biden as "Beijing Biden" and soft on China, but a review of Biden's China policy by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Deutsche Welle, BBC and RFE/RL found that there are actually many similarities between Biden's[…]

2021 March 14, David Rong, William Luo, Haitian Liu, Contemporary China Review (Quarterly Journal): 当代中国评论（英文季刊）, Bouden House, →ISBN, page 37:


Moscow Mitch

Referring to Mitch McConnell's opposition to sanctions voted by the Senate against the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in 2018.

"Moscow Mitch" has acted as a Trojan horse for crony capitalists, allowing them to wield domineering control over our national politics and decision-making. He has been diabolically opposed to fairer political representation and[…]

2016 May 21, Tiffany Twain, Big Picture Perspectives and A Pursuit of Social Activism, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 16:

Moscow Mitch won't allow it. The Senate Republican majority leader told us he didn't like that nickname. So in deference, I will not call him that. Even before the House impeachment hearings began, Leningrad Mitch pledged that[…]

2020 May 26, Marvin Kitman, Gullible's Travels: A Comical History of the Trump Era, Seven Stories Press, →ISBN:

The efforts earned McConnell the moniker "Moscow Mitch." In September 2019, Sen. McConnell finally agreed to a bill authorizing $250 million for election security. The bill did not require that states use the funds for secure[…]

2021 February 9, Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:

(US politics, derogatory) U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.


Plethon

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek Πλήθων (Plḗthōn), adopted by Plethon as a nickname or cognomen from Attic Greek πλῆθος (plêthos, “multitude, great number”) as a classicizing substitute for his surname Γεμιστός (Gemistós), from γεμιστός (gemistós, “filled, stuffed”). The particular form may have been chosen to mirror Πλάτων (Plátōn, “Plato”).

der

Georgios Gemistos Plethon (c. 1355–1453), a Byzantine Greek philosopher.


Trump country

[Title:] This Is Trump Country

2016 March 5, Thomas Kaplan, “This Is trump Country”, in The New York Times, page A14:

Still, of the state’s 95 counties, Biden won 91, with Sanders only taking the lead in four counties. From this breakdown, it appears that Democratic voters deep in Trump country think that the center-left approach of Biden is the best bet for the 2020 general election contest.

2020 March 4, Katie A. Cahill, Andrea Kent, Rey Junco, “Super Tuesday results show how Latino voters, moderate Democrats and Trump supporters are shaping the election”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 2024-01-04:

Now, Iowa is solidly red Trump country. We'll wave as she [Kamala Harris] flies over us.

2024 July 23, Todd Dorman, “Biden ends a career marked by Iowa punches”, in The Gazette, volume 142, number 196, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, page 5A:

(slang, politics, US) Rural areas in the United States where the majority of voters lean conservative and support the Republican politician Donald Trump.


Cheetolini

Blend of Cheeto + Mussolini, referencing the resemblance of Trump's facial complexion with the color of Cheetos and his perceived political similarity to Benito Mussolini.

"We don’t know the scope of involvement he has planned. The New York Times, though, reported that Obama’s team rushed to preserve intelligence regarding possible contacts between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia."
Trying to keep Cheetolini from destroying incriminating evidence hardly qualifies, IMO.

2017 March 7, Futbol Phan, “Worse than Carter, twice?”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):

“[…]But her being trans has nothing to do with those privileges; her gender identity is separate from the fact that she is not very smart and voted for Cheetolini.[…]”

2018 May 22, Franchesca Ramsey, Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist, Hachette UK, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

Fang Fang went Bang Bang (important China collusion hoax news involving
money laundering, trade wars and presidential emolumenting). Did you
see where the Supreme Court did not follow Presidential Ordering and
throw away all the democrat ballots and declare an incredible landslide
for Cheetolini The Truly Great and Amazing?

2020 December 12, mixed nuts, “Here's one source for CCP troops in China...”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):


Buckwheat

After a character from the Little Rascals comedy films, from buckwheat. Popularized by politician Corey Poitier in March 2010 though attestations exist as early as February 2008.

How will "Buckwheat" Obama handle the ever increasing nuke threat from
Iran?

2008 February 4, Gabby Hayes, “"Buckwheat" Obama and Iran”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

You know as well as I do that OIF will end sweetly, nicely, AND WAAY
BEFORE 2012. Unlike Hitlary (always ducking sniper fire) and
Buckwheat (doesn't know when to duck or how to fire), McAmnesty will
leave a bloody trail of blasted ass from the Mall to Langley!

2008 May 6, Patriot Games, “Buckwheat Gets Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Endorsement!”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

If you voted for Buckwheat in 2008, it proves your^([sic]) not a racist. If you vote for Buckwheat in 2012, it will prove that you are a frickin' idiot. Life's tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid.

2011 August 4, L.W. Van Leuven, Pivotal Point, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 14:

Buckwheat was the first to ignore the 1st Ammendment^([sic]) and the government not
interfering with the free exercise of religious faith.

2012 February 10, duke, “Catholic bishops cry wolf on contraception”, in alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic (Usenet):

(humorous, derogatory) Barack Hussein Obama II.


OBL

The American focus seemed to be almost entirely getting OBL, with the future of Afghanistan barely getting a look-in.

2012, Alastair Campbell, The Burden of Power (The Alastair Campbell Diaries), Random House, →ISBN, page 91:


RFK

"There are some things that RFK Jr. gets right," says former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden. "We do have a chronic disease crisis in this country, but we need to avoid simplistic solutions and stick with the science."

2024 November 15, Will Stone, Allison Aubrey, “RFK Jr. wants to 'Make America Healthy Again.' He could face a lot of pushback”, in NPR:

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.
w:Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Initialism of Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.. (b. 1954)


anti-Putinism

(politics) Opposition to the political policies of Vladimir Putin.


GEOTUS

Acronym of God Emperor of the United States, a blend of God Emperor + POTUS, in reference to the fictional God Emperor of Mankind from the Warhammer 40,000 universe, and the common acronym for the President of the United States.

acronym

President of the United States
Warhammer 40,000


Clinton News Network

Blend of Clinton + Cable News Network. In reference to allegations that the network's coverage is biased in favor of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Although the term was initially coined during Bill Clinton's presidency, it later experienced a surge in popularity during Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

The new head of CNN's news division is a well-known Clinton supporter according to Vanity Fair, hence the term "Clinton News Network."

1998 March 19, Reina 616, “Clinton News Network vs. Fox”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

2000 April 1, Red Herring, “ROTFL: Clinton News Network Lost 31% of Viewers in One Year”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

2001 April 5, A real American, “Clinton News Network hammered yet again by Fox News”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

Kaplan saw to it that CNN gave softball coverage to the Clintons and threw hardballs at their enemies. Under his watch, CNN came to be known as the Clinton News Network for its pro-Bill&Hill bias.

2004 February 18, Jim Dandy, “MSNBC, the New Clinton News Network?”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

Since Fat Ass Matt Sticks His Head Up His OWN Ass And Ignores What The New York Times and The Clinton News Network Writes While Posting More Lies... We'll Just Keep Posting This (see below making Matt look stupider than he already appears to be)

2016 November 16, AlleyCat, “Could Trump be the First Mole impeached on the day he is inaugurated?”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:


Umayya

Transliteration of Arabic أُمَيَّة (ʔumayya).


Elongated Muskrat

Musicians to arrive at studio in Tesla electric sports cars made by Elongated Muskrat.

2016 October 22, Graham Layton (@Grahamszs), Twitter:

Send Elongated Muskrat to Mars so he can watch anime and leave us alone...

2019 June 24, The Obscure Show (@TheeObscure), Twitter:

I wish people would remember that Elongated Muskrat is not some kind of genius inventor or whatever, he was born one inch from home base and he's bought other people's ideas from day one.

2022 April 15, Mother Bones, Inbox 36K (@_L1vY_), Twitter:

(derogatory or humorous) South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.


David Miscarriage

Oh yes, there havent been any murders in the last 3 years! Thats good. only a 5 or 6 more suicides. Hever Clench can't be extradited to spain on criminal charges and cant travel to spain, or Greece for that matter anymore, thats good. David Miscarriage is now a named defendant in the death of Lisa McPherson (davie is the top dog in the cult these days)...thats good.

1999 September 18, phils...@my-deja.com, “The GOOD things about Scientology”, in alt.self-improve (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-12:

Enjoy, Xavier, the Xenu:
This is not B-sh-t, is the naked Truth!!!
2000 is the year of the end of C0$
2000 is the beginning of the end of ETERNITY
2000 is the YEAR OF David Miscarriage's SQUIRRELING
Miscarriage, K-ob-RIM, and Mor(xx)on SUCKS!!!

2000 January 31, marcab_4, “Fight the Marcabians !”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-12:

What exactly was it that boomed the orgs? Non-oppressive pricing? The absence of David MisCarriage and his Marcab ClaManagement team? Tech that didnt brainwash people?

2000 November 10, skippy_...@my-deja.com, “A question for Dorsai”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-12:

Say, I reckon David MisCarriage caught syphilis from buggering his pet goat. Now you have to ring up David MisCarriage and ask him if it is true. Maybe it will even start a row between you and him if you do but, hey, that's not MY fault is it??

2001 October 6, Dave Bird, “Shooting the Messenger”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-12:

2002 December 17, Phil Scott, “Was David Miscarriage in bed with his two pals Hitchman and Slatkin?”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-12:

(informal, derogatory) David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology since 1986.


Hitler's buzzsaw

en-noun

Hitler's buzzsaw (plural Hitler's buzzsaws)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Hitler's buzzsaw.wav

(military, World War II, slang) The MG 42 machine gun.


hamberder

From a 2019 tweet by Donald Trump, in which he misspelled hamburgers as hamberders.

Great being with the National Champion Clemson Tigers last night at the White House. Because of the Shutdown I served them massive amounts of Fast Food (I paid), over 1000 hamberders etc. Within one hour, it was all gone. Great guys and big eaters!

2019 January 15, realDonaldTrump, Twitter, archived from the original on 2019-01-15:

Donald Trump has bragged about serving a table groaning with McDonalds^([sic]) ‘hamberders’ to a football team visiting the White House. In a misspelt tweet issued Tuesday, the president wrote: ‘Great being with the National Champion Clemson Tigers last night at the White House. ‘Because of the Shutdown I served them massive amounts of Fast Food (I paid), over 1000 hamberders etc.

2019 January 15, Bod, “Donald Trump brags about serving McDonald’s ‘hamberders’ at White House”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

How many people were there that required 1000 hamberders? And he wasn't just serving those, there were chicken nuggets, pizza too I think.
So, two burgers per person, 500 people?
Anyone want to bet it's another gross exaggeration?

2019 January 15, trader_4, “Donald Trump brags about serving McDonald’s ‘hamberders’ at White House”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

If words could kill I would've turned Thanny into a pile of hamberder a thousand times over.

2019 September 16, gmsin...@gmail.com, “Beano O'Rourke: Police Wouldn't Go Door To Door To Confiscate Guns Under My Plan”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Soon after she started in Congress, Devil’s Due, a comic book publisher, announced its latest product: […] Grab a hamberder and cup of covfefe and prepare to enjoy this read!

2020, Caroline Fredrickson, “Introduction”, in The AOC Way: The Secrets of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Success, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:

>> Do wish to purchase a hamburger today?
>
>Don't forget the On!ons.
Indeed, a hamberder with ketchup, lettuce, tomatoes, pickle and ONIONS is not really a hamberder.

2020 September 21, "Sir Hømer Hall, Esq.", “MOST HILARIOUS LIBTARD MELTDOWN E-V-E-R-!”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

food should not be a problem for Trump, given how much he loves McDonald's "hamberders" as he refers to them in his tweets. McDonald's is inexpensive, provides plenty of coupons, and must not be unhealthy because Trump eats them daily, his doctor reports he is in flawless health in spite of having suffered covid. He eats McDonalds^([sic]) as he alleges that it is harder to put poison in fast food, because you do not know which hamberder will be handed to the victim.

2020 November 26, marika, “Food Shortage?????”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

>> Also, if convicted and jailed, would he have Secret Service protection in the mess hall and showers?
>
> He'd be in Club Fed. Private accommodations, like other rich crooks get.
Would he get the hamberders and ice cream that he needs to stay alive? What about golfing facilities?

2021 January 7, Athel Cornish-Bowden, “It's over”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

(humorous) Deliberate misspelling of hamburger.


Sunak

en-prop

Sunak (countable and uncountable, plural Sunaks)

Rishi Sunak, UK politician and its prime minister from 2022 to 2024.


Orc

(slang, fiction, derogatory) Alternative form of orc (monstrous warrior in fantasy; Russian soldier)


Gimo

Clipping of generalissimo, in reference to Chiang Kai-shek's rank.

That afternoon, the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang received a thousand guests at a tea celebrating the Gimo's return to office.

1950 May 13, “CHINA: Return of the Gimo”, in Time (magazine):

The Gimo rises at daybreak nowadays. At about seven o'clock he dresses either in the long blue Chinese robe he wore today or in a military uniform minus all insignia.

1960 April 1, “Little Known Facts about President Chiang”, in Taiwan Today:

Everyone understands that the Gimo’s [Chiang Kai-shek’s nickname: a shortened version of generalissimo] whole reason for being, and that of all the people who came over with him, is to return to the mainland, where they would defeat communism and establish a government under his rule.

1984 September 20, Roland N. Smoot, “As I Recall: The U.S. Taiwan Defense Command”, in Proceedings (magazine):

A nickname for Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Kuomintang during World War II and Cold War


Aquinas

Ellipsis of Thomas Aquinas; an Italian philosopher, theologian and jurist during the 13th century.


Chilon

(historical) A Spartan politician and one of the Seven Sages of Greece.


Desert Fox

Possibly a calque of German Wüstenfuchs, in reference to the terrain in which the North African campaign was fought, and the popular conception of the slyness of the fox. Not clear whether it was coined in British or German media first, as the respective term arose in each language near-simultaneously.

(historical) Erwin Rommel; a German field marshal and tank commander during World War II.


Trumpwave

Blend of Trump + vaporwave, equivalent to Trump + -wave.

In title, Trumpwave may once have evoked a certain ironic response, to be interpreted as derisive or polysomic. However, in current political times this genre risks becoming newly sincere.

2019, Emile Frankel, Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine the Future?:

A subgenre of fashwave music focusing on American politician Donald Trump.


Clitonista

Yeap. I remember the Reagan campaign's Bimbo Eruption
Task Force. Or I would if I were a Clitonista, they seem quite capable
of remembering things no one else recall. (LIke^([sic]) those black churches
burning in Arkansas.)

1998 December 14, pyotr filipivich, “Eric supposrts Perjury, or would if he knew what it was.”, in alt.impeach.clinton (Usenet):

The leftist Clitonista africoon judge said he wanted to be sure that
none of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali's Terrorist Rights were violated.

2006 February 22, \/\/0RD@truth.0rg, “$Lick Willy's nigga judge supports Terrorist's Rights!”, in alt.religion.islam (Usenet):

We "banned" "assault weapons" LONG before the Clitonistas came up with
that stupid idea... The only definition of "assault weapon" that
makes any sense is 'Automatic" or 'Machine Gun.' And since about
forever they've been heavily restricted...

2011 January 22, Patriot Games, “Why the NRA don't want any gun bans”, in alt.politics (Usenet):


Orange Man bad

Intentionally used without a verb, playing into the trope that barbaric or primitive people omit copulas such as is.

CNN BREAKING NOW: ORANGE MAN BAD Is this supposed to be a news site? This looks more like parody news that is not to be taken seriously. Obviously this is the first place you go to when you install the Dissenter app lol CNN IS FAKE NEWS[…]

2019 May 4, Scott Barry, 609 Pages of Horse Shit, Lulu.com, →ISBN:

Orange Man bad. Orange Man wanted to drain the swamp and create some balance again. Orange Man was also a complete stand for the sovereignty and independence of America. He was an advocate for all peoples living great lives.

2021 July 20, Mike Shereck, Manhood Manifesto: How Men Must Lead at Home, at Work, and in the Public Sphere, Bombardier Books, →ISBN:

Because, because, because Orange Man Bad: ThinkProgress continues, “...even worse, the climate policy agenda President Donald Trump is pushing — actions that include rolling back U.S. laws that reduce carbon pollution and abandoning the[…]

2022 June 8, Matt Teahan, We Are America, We Are Americans (HB), Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 438:

(Internet slang, US politics, sarcastic) A statement used to mock opposers of the American politician Donald Trump, implying that they only oppose him because it is either popular to do so, or have no idea what their own political stances really are.


Orange Man

Many people consider Trump's skin to be unusually orange. It is probable, but uncertain, that the term was first used in Orange Man bad.

We want to be in charge damn it, and that Bad Orange Man is in the way. Oh, and so are all of you who support him. In their minds President Trump isn't the only problem. You are a problem too. You are in the way, and that's why every[…]

2020 July 7, Kurt Schlichter, The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and you!), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Trump must really be a bad guy. Orange Man bad. Orange Man wanted to drain the swamp and create some balance again. Orange Man was also a complete stand for the sovereignty and independence of America. He was an advocate for all peoples[…]

Its three signatories were later received by Scott Atlas, recently appointed as Donald Trump's health advisor., ... Rather, it's more virtue signaling via the irrational “Orange Man is anti-lockdown therefore all good “liberals” will,[…]

2021 September 2, Simon Foley, Understanding Media Propaganda in the 21st Century: Manufacturing Consent Revisited and Revised, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 153:

(Internet slang, humorous) Donald Trump, former US president and politician.


Biden bucks

(derogatory, humorous) Stimulus payments provided to US citizens during the Biden presidency.


Tolkienism

en-noun

Tolkienism (countable and uncountable, plural Tolkienisms)

constructed language
constructed language

Something characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien, such as a word from his constructed languages, or a style of high fantasy literature.


Jibby

2020, Gempak.comhttps://gempak.com/rojakdaily/news/cluster-jibby-netizens-lament-lack-social-distancing-najib-razaks-court-hearing-55202

Some netizens are even calling the scene as "Cluster Jibby", or "Cluster Najib", and are fearing for the worse (read: MCO 2.0).

(Malaysia, politics, Internet slang, humorous, derogatory) Najib Razak, former prime minister of Malaysia.


Black Speech

Generally speaking, the articulation in Black Speech is quite violent. Diphthongs are practically absent and due to the relatively small number of sonorants, the transitions between particular sounds are sharp and abrupt.

2007, Joanna Podhorodecka, “Is lámatyáve a linguistic heresy? Iconicity in J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented languages”, in Elżbieta Tabakowska et al., editors, Insistent Images, →ISBN, page 109:

Many later scholars have agreed with Tolkien on his general declarations about his languages (for example, that the Elvish languages are ‘beautiful’, while the Black Speech is cacophonous or that the languages originated Tolkien’s mythology) and skipped the whole issue of the role of the langauges in his fiction by treating them as a fanciful accessory unworthy of independent study.

2009, Dimitra Fimi, Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits, →ISBN, page 75:

Accepting Alexander Nemirovski’s theory that Tolkien’s Black Speech was based on the long-extinct Hurrian language, the group felt this was an appropriate starting point.

2021, Yens Wahlgren, The Universal Translator: Everything You Need to Know About 139 Languages That Don’t Really Exist, →ISBN, page 278:

A constructed language designed by J. R. R. Tolkien, intended to be associated with evil.


From J6 (“January 6 [United States Capitol attack]”) + -er.

suf

January 6 􂀿United States Capitol attack􂁀

Judges going easy on J6ers on grounds that a little bit goes a long way evidently haven't read a word of history: light sentences for fascists are a gift to them, easy time that to their followers equals instant martyrdom, readymade (read: faux) "authenticity."

2021 August 24, JeffSharlet, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-09-06:

Former president Trump called all the J6ers to DC promising it’d be wild.

2022 January 20, Kevin Robbins, “Jan. 6 and BLM not the same”, in The Post-Star, volume 118, number 62, Glens Falls, NY, page A4:

A third fundraising site, the Patriot Freedom Project, lists Rehl as one of 34 detained “J6ers.” The site is “dedicated to bringing awareness to the plight of those being politically persecuted and supporting their families and friends,” it says.

2022 March 30, Laura Italiano, “How lagging prosecutions and long jail stays are fanning the flames of Jan. 6 extremism”, in Business Insider:

I pled guilty to a misdemeanor. And when you Google my name, and you look at this dossier that the government has compiled against me and every other J6er.

2023 January 19, Tucker Carlson Tonight, spoken by Brandon Straka, via Fox News:

Many of the J6ers had never been incarcerated before, and jail came as a shock. The difference, though, between them and the average person in the D.C. jail, or any American jail, is that they were going through hell together.

2024 September 16, Hanna Rosin, “The Insurrectionists Next Door”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:

(US politics, neologism) A participant in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.


MAGAism

After his loss, Trump spoke of forming a “Patriot Party” that would compete with the GOP to fly the banner of true MAGAism. Such a third party, based on populist rhetoric and grievance, would be a twenty-first-century version of[…]

2021 June 22, Mike Rothschild, The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything, Melville House, →ISBN, page 238:

However, the series also finds Roseanne's performative MAGAism equally humorous. Principle, whichever side of the political aisle it hails from, is set up for mockery in this reboot, and the butt of Roseanne's jokes is no longer systems[…]

2022 April 12, Karen McNally, American Television during a Television Presidency, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:


CIIIR

King Charles III of the United Kingdom
w:en:Charles III of the United Kingdom

(UK) Abbreviation of Charles III Rex; the royal cypher of King Charles III of the United Kingdom, king regnant.


VRI

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
w:en:Victoria I of the United Kingdom

(UK) Abbreviation of Victoria Regina et Imperatrix.; the royal cypher of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, queen regnant.


FJB

(US politics, derogatory, slang, vulgar) Joe Biden.


Qcumber

I no longer refer to them as 'Qanon people.'
To me, they will forever be known as Qcumbers.
#QcumberCult

2020 April 19, just_mice33, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-09-16:

(slang, derogatory) A follower of the QAnon movement.


dwarrowdam

Coined by online Tolkien fans in the early 2010s, from dwarrow, an alternate word for the fantasy race of dwarves in Tolkien's legendarium, and dam (“female parent, mother”).

Kiaran stands at the heart of the room, speaking to a dwarrowdam with fiery red hair.

2014 May 1, LineofDurin (@Tiorvi), Twitter:

Goodnight dwarrows and dwarrowdams. As well as all others. I am retiring to my chambers for the eve. Court shall be held tomorrow.

2014 December 16, King Thrór (@Actual_Thror), Twitter:

Samila smiled and he sensed that this dwarrowdam was tougher than flint and able to go whatever lengths necessary to save her people.

2017, Anne Olga Vea, A Dragonslayer's Tale, page 472:

(chiefly Tolkien fandom slang, fantasy) A female of the dwarf race.

Dwarves (Middle-earth)
Tolkien's legendarium


CRIII

(UK) Abbreviation of Charles Rex III; the royal cypher of King Charles III of the United Kingdom, king regnant.


LGE

(Malaysian politics) Initialism of Lim Guan Eng. (Malaysian politician and accountant)


Bossku

From boss and Malay -ku (“my”), meaning "my boss". From an internet post by Najib, "Nak malu apa bossku", which means "What to be ashamed of, my boss".

Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak is getting so used to being called "Bossku" (my boss) these days that he almost does not go by his name any more.

(Malaysia, politics, slang, humorous) Najib Razak, former prime minister of Malaysia.


comparison is the thief of joy

Comparing one's own situation with that of others will lead to unhappiness or bitterness.


Clintoniana

Objects, materials, or documents relating to Bill Clinton (born 1946), the 42nd president of the United States.


Q+

I heard a woman ask a guy in a "Q+" hat — one of Q's signatures, he told me — what Q was about.

2018 August 3, Philip Bump, “There’s a virus in Trumpland”, in Washington Post:

The group regularly disseminates Q's messages on UCP's official YouTube livestream. Members toss off remarks like "thank God for Q and Q+, that’s Trump," actively look for Q messages and claim that real news is based those messages.

2019 April 23, Brendan Joel Kelley, “QAnon Conspiracy Increasingly Popular with Antigovernment Extremists”, in Southern Poverty Law Center:

Some QAnon devotees even believe that Mr. Trump posts himself, under the code name "Q+".

2020 February 9, Mike McIntire, Kevin Roose, “What Happens When QAnon Seeps From the Web to the Offline World”, in New York Times:

Ms. Perkins said she saw Mr. Trump as being involved in the Q effort, saying that she believed he was posting online under the pseudonym Q+.

2020 May 20, Mike Baker, “G.O.P. Voters Back QAnon Conspiracy Promoter for U.S. Senate”, in New York Times:

DAVIES: Let's just talk about some QAnon terms. When you see Q+, what does that mean?
 LAFRANCE: Well, Q+ refers to President Trump himself.

2020 August 20, Dave Davies, Adrienne LaFrance, Fresh Air, NPR:

(QAnon) A hypothetical individual believed to be in charge of QAnon, most commonly thought to be Donald Trump himself.


Panini

Aṣṭādhyāyī Aṣṭādhyāyī

An ancient Indian grammarian known for codifying what came to be known as the Sanskrit language in his work the Aṣṭādhyāyī.


Gigachad

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From giga- + Chad. Coined by an anonymous poster on the 4chan /pol/ board on October 17th, 2017, who described Russian model Ernest Khalimov as a "gigachad" who was "the perfect human specimen destined to lead us against the reptilians" (see quotation below).

Alternative form: GigaChad

Years of Bogdanoff research into genetic augmentation has finally yielded fruit. ¶ Behold, the Gigachad. The perfect human specimen destined to lead us against the reptilians. ¶ We are all witness.

2017 October 16, 4chan, /pol/, archived from the original on 2023-04-18:

This gets even weirder, though. Since every photo of him seems to have been taken and released by the artist Krista Sudmalis, whose ongoing "Sleek'N'Tears" project is his lone credit — and there he is exclusively referred to as "1969" — it's fair to suspect that GigaChad is almost entirely Sudmalis' digital creation.

2021 February 1, Miles Klee, “Who Is GigaChad: Meme, Digital Creation or Russian Model?”, in MEL Magazine, archived from the original on 2024-01-06:

"GigaChad" (also known as "Average Enjoyer") is Russian menswear model and bodybuilder Ernest Khalimov. Aside from the "GigaChad" memes, he isn't very well-known. Even in the "Sleek'N'Tears" project, he was exclusively known as "1969," so it's fair that a lot of people are surprised to hear that he's a real person.

2021 May 3, Lyshiel Aranal, Trixie Velasquez, “'Thanks for your kind words': GigaChad finally responds to the memes”, in Pop Inquirer, archived from the original on 2023-12-02:

This is no more true for Ernest Khalimov - AKA GigaChad - who has garnered so much acclaim for his good looks and chiseled physique that people have even questioned his own existence.

2021 October 19, Jacob Bentley-York, “Who is Ernest Khalimov AKA GigaChad and what is the Chad meme?”, in The US Sun, archived from the original on 2024-01-14:

(Internet slang) A nickname for a model from Russia, Ernest Khalimov, often featured in memes derived from several images posted by the Instagram account berlin.1969.


Tolkienish

en-adj

Tolkienish (comparative more Tolkienish, superlative most Tolkienish)

more Tolkienish (comparative)
most Tolkienish (superlative)

Most campaigns that I have played in have tended to utilise a sort of Tolkienish semi-medieval background, sometimes not very well developed.

1985 June, Roger Musson, “Stirge Corner”, in Imagine: Adventure Game Magazine, page 51:

Early on, the trail passes a tiny cedar lake with Tolkienish overtones. A hobbit-size table and chairs have been carved out of wooden stumps.

1989, Jack Christie, Day Trips from Vancouver, page 55:

The novel also reflects a Tolkienish nostalgia for an earlier England dominated by the rural squirarchy that Eliot absorbed so completely.

2011, Leon Surette, Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics, page 301:

Of, related to, or characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien or his writings.


Talcum X

Blend of talcum + Malcolm X, in reference to the white color of talcum powder, as well as allegations that Shaun King lied about his race.

Shaun King IS a scream if it's the same guy I've seen on the interwebs. He's a white guy who "identifies" as black, whatever the hell that means! On a message board, he's often called Talcum X.

2017 June 7, Dan the Man, “OT - They Ain't Callin' Kaepernick”, in alt.sports.football.pro.miami-dolphins (Usenet), retrieved 2022-10-13:

(slang, humorous, derogatory) Shaun King.


anti-Stratfordian

A person who, in the controversy over who wrote the Shakespeare canon, holds that it was probably written by someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon.


REL

Russo-European Laika
Russo-European Laika#English


Tolkieny

Tolkieny (comparative more Tolkieny, superlative most Tolkieny)

more Tolkieny (comparative)
most Tolkieny (superlative)

Pauline Baynes' illustrations have always seemed to me more suited to the atmosphere of "Hans Christian Andersen” tales, but this time she has come up with a very appealing cover design with a far more "Tolkieny” feel about it .

1968, Gandalf's Garden, numbers 1-4, page 31:

If this sounds a bit Tolkieny, why not? So is Wagner’s Ring cycle.

2016 February 6, Ismene Brown, “Unforgettable fire”, in The Spectator, page 50:

Those little leggies of yours make the trek to Orchid Avenue downright Tolkieny.

2021, Bryan CP Steele, Shadowrun: Tourist Trapped, unnumbered page:

(informal) Of, related to, or characteristic of J. R. R. Tolkien or his writings.


Enheduanna

Borrowed from Sumerian 𒂗𒃶𒌌𒀭𒈾 (literally “Ornament of Heaven”).

bor+

A priestess of the moon deity Nanna and the first named author.


Dark Brandon

From let's go, Brandon with influence from Dark MAGA.

A 26-year-old sent a pithy email that argued: “Biden could literally do nothing for the next two and a half years[…] We chose the only candidate who could win and he did.” He also sent us a Biden meme of what he called “Dark Brandon.”

[2022 July 13, Alex Thompson, Max Tani, “The Holy War over Hunter Biden’s laptop”, in Politico:

“Dark Brandon is crushing it,” tweeted Andrew Bates, the White House deputy press secretary, on Sunday night, referring to President Joe Biden.

2022 August 8, Perret Connor, Bryan Metzger, “Biden White House embraces ‘Dark Brandon,’ a parody of the ‘Dark MAGA’ meme used by the far right”, in Business Insider:

California farmworkers may struggle with clout in our state Capitol, but they definitely have friends in higher places. Those include Dark Brandon, that feisty internet alter ego of Joe Biden who is done being the ice-cream-eating nice guy – and is letting his antagonists know it, whether they are MAGA Republicans or wayward California governors.

2022 September 7, Anita Chabria, “Dark Brandon turns the tables on Newsom; Governor, who has called out moderates, gets schooled by Biden in union fight”, in Los Angeles Times, page B1:

“That sneaky Joe Biden pulled an October surprise on the Republicans by doing something popular,” said Stephen Colbert of the marijuana pardon. “Today, Dark Brandon became Dank Brandon.”

2022 October 7, “Kimmel on Biden’s marijuana pardon: ‘Glad Willie Nelson is alive to see this’”, in The Guardian (online):

Grant Stern, executive editor of political organization Occupy Democrats, wrote: “Dark Brandon gets Republicans to cheerily promise not to cut Social Security and Medicare live during the #SOTU speech!”

2023 February 8, Darragh Roche, “How Joe Biden Skewered Republicans in State of the Union ‘Masterclass’”, in Yerepouni Daily News, Beirut:

Democrats have long sought to ignite their own messages online. And the Biden campaign has been quick to embrace the “Dark Brandon” meme, in which the president is depicted as a kind of superhero, sometimes with lasers for eyes.

2023 July 18, Jess Bidgood, “Ron DeSantis wants to make his mark online, but is it paying off?”, in Boston Globe (subscription):

Dark Brandon has never been darker. Molly Roberts is talking about the internetty persona of President Biden, the meme lord with lasers emanating from his eyes — the one who tweeted after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory that he had orchestrated the whole thing, just as far-right conspiracy theorists had alleged.

2024 February 14, Drew Goins, “Recognizing other relationships, from platonic to polyamorous”, in The Washington Post:

(US politics, slang, humorous, ironic) Joe Biden (46th and current President of the United States), especially used by liberals to refer to the idea of a more powerful Biden, or to point out something powerful he has actually done.


Mad King George

In reference to the numerous episodes of acute mania suffered from in later life; typically thought to be due to porphyria or bipolar disorder.

(historical, dated) A nickname for King George III of the United Kingdom.