Luganda

/luːˈɡɑːndə/

Then it dawned on her. He did not know any Luganda. All along he had not understood a word she had said.

2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 48:

A Bantu language spoken mostly in Uganda.


UKIP

UK Independence Party
UK Independence Party#English


Russophobia

Contempt or hatred towards Russia or Russians, especially the political system, or the customs of the former Soviet Union.

հակառուսականություն

the fear or hatred of Russia or Russians


nationalism

en-noun

nationalism (countable and uncountable, plural nationalisms)

/ˈnæʃənəlɪzəm/

From French nationalisme. By surface analysis, national + -ism.

any geopolitical group pursuing its own interest

(UK, Ireland) Support for the union of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.


sulla

Borrowed from Punjabi ਸੁੱਲ (sulla), a mispronunciation of Punjabi ਮੁੱਲਾ (mullā, “mullah, Islamic religious leader”), derived from Classical Persian ملا (mullā), from Arabic مُلَّا (mullā).

der

(South Asia, religious slur, ethnic slur) A Muslim man; especially one from Pakistan.


Zionist

More than those who are merely pro-Israel, Zionists (1) see contemporary Israeli society as presenting a challenge to their Jewish life in the Diaspora; (2) believe Israel offers a greater chance of a fulfilling and secure Jewish life; and (3) are confronted with the possibility of settling in Israel and attracted to it. Thus, while most American Jews are pro-Israel, far fewer are Zionists in the classical sense.

1995, Stephen M. Cohen, “Jewish Continuity Over Jewish Context”, in Robert Seltzer, Norman S. Cohen, editors, The Americanization of the Jews, page 405:

These investigations indicate that although a large proportion of American Jews call themselves Zionists, their meanings of Zionism are closer to what some investigators have called pro-Israelism. According to the still common Israeli definition of a Zionist as one who views the Diaspora negatively and considers the settlement of Jews in Israel as essential, the vast majority of American Jews would not be considered Zionists.

1996, Gal Allon, Allon Gal, Jerold S. Auerbach, Envisioning Israel: The Changing Ideals and Images of North American Jews, page 151:

Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.

2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019:


Pan-Slavism

A movement aimed at uniting all the Slavic peoples.


kipper

From Old English cypera (“male salmon”), perhaps related to Old English coper (“reddish-brown metal”) (see copper), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip (“sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season”), from Middle English kippen (“to seize, snatch”), but OED doubts this.

inh

Kipper, I discovered, was airman's slang for a fishing boat. The chief function of this particular station was the escorting of convoys and fishing fleets, and the section which had the latter duty to perform was known as the ‘Kipper Patrol’.

Kipper-kites, aircraft engaged on convoy escort duties over the North Sea and usually giving protection to the fishing-vessels.

1943, J. L. Hunt, A. G. Pringle, Service Slang, page 42:

(military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.


peaceful

Derived from the derogatory term religion of peace, which is used against Islam itself for its association with violent attacks by Islamic extremists, and alleged support and lack of condemnation against them by certain Muslim communities.

They only have to use a bit of code to name those people; nowadays they call them “peacefuls”. A smirking euphemism is all it takes to sail through Twitter’s filter, and keep the hate-speech flowing.

(India, Islam, Islamophobic, Internet slang, offensive) a Muslim; especially a violent member of a radical Islamist group.


jingoism

en-noun

jingoism (countable and uncountable, plural jingoisms)

/ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡəʊɪz(ə)m/

Soviet reports today on the British victory in the Falkland Islands said a “new flare-up of jingoism” in Britain obscured the fact that the problem was far from solved.

1982 June 16, “Soviet Accuses British Of Jingoism in Victory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

“When you see several dots on a page you begin to get a line of trajectory. These things mean something,” he said of the repeated displays of jingoism. “And I think what they mean is that China is back, it is powerful and it is not to be trifled with.”

2017 September 23, Tom Phillips, quoting Orville Schell, “China finds its own Top Gun and Rambo in wave of patriotic movies”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

(uncountable) Excessive patriotism or aggressive nationalism, especially with regards to foreign policy.

ջինգոիզմ

extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy

狂信的愛国主義

きょうしんてきあいこくしゅぎ


M

M (countable and uncountable, plural Ms)

Coordinate term: H (“Hindu”)

(India, Islam, Internet slang) Initialism of Muslim; mostly used by Hindutva netizens primarily towards Islamist supporters and Muslim militants.


Hamas

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās, literally “enthusiasm”), an acronym for حَرَكَة اَلْمُقَاوَمَةِ الْإِسْلَامِيَّةِ (ḥarakat al-muqāwama l-ʔislāmiyya, “Islamic Resistance Movement”). The pronunciation with /x/ is from or influenced by Hebrew חַמַאס.

der

Hebrew חַמַאס

A militant Palestinianist and Sunni Muslim movement that presses for an independent, Palestinian Islamic state and the Palestinian right of return.


PLO

Palestine Liberation Organization
w:Palestine Liberation Organization

Initialism of Palestine Liberation Organization.


RSS

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
w:Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

(Indian politics, Hindutva) Initialism of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (“Indian nationalist volunteer organization”).


Pamyat

Borrowed from Russian Па́мять (Pámjatʹ), ultimately Russian па́мять (pámjatʹ, “memory”).

A right-wing Russian political movement.


PN

en-noun

PN (countable and uncountable, plural PNs)

(Malaysia, politics, uncountable) Initialism of Perikatan Nasional (“National Alliance”).


nationalist

en-adj

nationalist (comparative more nationalist, superlative most nationalist)

more nationalist (comparative)
most nationalist (superlative)


nationalist

You are either a globalist or a nationalist; one cannot be both.


DPR

Public Relations
public relations#English

Initialism of Department of Public Relations.


Cocacolonization

Blend of Coca-Cola + colonization The word was first documented in 1949 in Australia and France.

(colloquial, often pejorative) Globalization or cultural colonization likened to westernization or Americanization consisting of the importing of western or American goods or cultural values to the detriment of local goods or values.


Juche

/ˈd͡ʒuːt͡ʃeɪ/

Borrowed from Korean 주체(主體) (juche, “self-reliance”, literally “subject”).

bor+

Despite its rejection of theism and its political origins, there are several reasons for labeling Juche ideology a form of spirituality. […] According to Juche teachings, human beings only exist within societies.

2008, Don Baker, Korean Spirituality, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 147:

زُوتْشِيَّة

North Korean self-reliance state ideology


chaperone

/ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/

/ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/

(UK, business) An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.


Little Englander

en-noun

Little Englander (plural Little Englanders)

(British, derogatory, modern) A bigoted, xenophobic, and nationalistic English person.

(British, derogatory, modern) Someone unaware of the world outside England.

(British, archaic) Someone who advocated an end to the British Empire.


manifest destiny

Popularly attributed to newspaper editor John O'Sullivan (1813–1895). The phrase was first used primarily by Jackson Democrats in the 1840s to promote the annexation of much of what is now the Western United States.

昭昭天命

cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America

United States of America
United States of America

The political doctrine or belief held by the United States of America, particularly during its expansion, that the nation was destined to expand toward the west.

The political doctrine or belief held by many citizens of the United States of America that their system is best, and the idea that all humans would like to become Americans.

The belief that God supports the expansion of the United States of America throughout the entire North American continent except Mexico.


antinational

Calling Tamil Nadu a “shelter” for anti-nationals, BJP national president J P Nadda said the state administration and the DMK were giving shelter to people working against the interests of the nation.

2020 August 25, Shanmughasundaram J, “Tamil Nadu is shelter for anti-nationals, says J P Nadda”, in Times of India:

(Indian politics, Hindutva, derogatory, accusatory) One who is opposed to India, usually suggesting pro-Pakistan or leftist associations, hostility against the Hindu religion, or opposition to Hindu nationalism.


anti-imperialism

anti-imperialism (usually uncountable, plural anti-imperialisms)

Any belief or practice which opposes imperialism.


Arabist

en-adj

Arabist (comparative more Arabist, superlative most Arabist)

more Arabist (comparative)
most Arabist (superlative)

Two of the most influential Arabist societies were established beyond the reach of Ottoman censors and police.

2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 24:

Pertaining to Arab nationalism; promoting Arab interests.


Kemalist

From Kemal + -ist, after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

From successive crises in Crete and Cyprus over enosis (‘union’) with the Greek mainland to the great clash with Kemalist Turkey over Anatolia in the aftermath of the First World War, dreams of greater Greece have wrought untold havoc in the eastern Mediterranean.

1999 March, Sean McMeekin, “The Place that Launched a Thousand Ships”, in Literary Review:

Of or pertaining to the ideology of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; following the ideals of Kemalism, including separation of the new Turkish state from its Ottoman predecessor and the embracement of Western-style democracy and secularism.


Peronism

(politics) The eclectic political ideology attributed to the former Argentine leaders Juan Perón and Eva Duarte de Perón, combining populism, nationalism and state intervention, but originally chiefly centred on their personalities.


globalist

Coordinate term: continentalist

(historiography) One who believes that Adolf Hitler intended to extend the Third Reich beyond the continent of Europe.

"Globalists" tend to view international issues in terms of US-Soviet rivalry, while "regionalists" see them more often as manifestations of local rivalries and problems.

1986, Galia Golan, The Soviet Union and the PLO since the War in Lebanon, page 285:

The authors suggest that the globalist emphasis among policymakers has increased during the Reagan administration.

1986, Eric Stromayer, African Crisis Areas and U.S. Foreign Policy (review), page 240:

(geopolitics, dated) One who believes international events are primarily caused by conflicts between great powers.


Londonistan

The term “Londonistan” apparently originated with a sarcastic remark by a French intelligence officer frustrated by Britain’s failure to crack down on radical Islamists in their midst.

2017 April 6, Leela Jacinto, “Is Londonistan calling jihadists back to the fold?”, in France 24:

(informal, derogatory) London, perceived as having been culturally conquered by Muslims.


raita

From the Hindi idiom रायता फैलाना (rāytā phailānā), which means to "spill the raita" or "make a mess".

(India, derogatory, politics, online slang) A Hindu who does not support Hindutva, a liberal Hindu, especially (highly derogatory) as considered a traitor to India or race traitor towards Indians.


trad

en-noun

trad (countable and uncountable, plural trads)

traditional climbing
traditional climbing#English


Macaulayism

From Macaulay + -ism, from the name of Thomas Babington Macaulay, who was instrumental in introducing English as a medium of instruction for higher education in India.

(India, derogatory) The act of westernization of upper class Indians using educational reform.


völkisch

From German völkisch. (Morphologically, compare English folkish.)

It is led by Björn Höcke, who is considered to be part of the AfD’s far right or völkisch wing, which was officially disbanded but is still widely believed to exist.

2023 June 26, Kate Connolly, “Far-right AfD wins local election in ‘watershed moment’ for German politics”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Pertaining to a German populist, identity-nationalist or ethnonationalist ideology found since the late 19th century.


Putinism

Indeed Putinism elided the differences between consensus, centrism and conformity.

2004, Cameron Ross, Russian Politics Under Putin, Manchester University Press, page 60:

Putin may now calculate he can call off the dogs of war, having achieved his aims and able to pocket his gains very cheaply. The Georgia campaign becomes the triumphant climax of Putinism. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/16/georgia.russia1

2008 August 16, Ian Traynor, “Six days that broke one country - and reshaped the world order”, in The Guardian:

And so it was Surkov who in 2004 announced that Putinism, this strange new hybrid of Soviet-type authoritarianism and free-market morals, was based on the concept of ‘sovereign democracy’.

2014, Marc Bennetts, Kicking the Kremlin: Russia’s New Dissidents and the Battle to Topple Putin, Oneworld Publications:

Navalny’s boyish charm, quick wit and detailed accounts of the dodgy deals and luxurious homes of the elite have made his Internet-distributed videos oopular as devastating indictments of the open-mawed corruption of late Putinism.

2019, Mark Galeotti, We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West gets him wrong, and how to get him right, London: Random House:

(politics) The political policies of Vladimir Putin; the Russian political system during Putin’s tenure in power.

putinizëm

the political policies of Vladimir Putin


ultranationalism

ultranationalism (countable and uncountable, plural ultranationalisms)

Extreme nationalism, the belief in the superiority of one's nation and of the paramount importance of advancing it.


chaddi

From Hindi चड्डी (caḍḍī). The usage for members of the RSS is derived from the khaki shorts in their uniforms.

(India, Indian politics, derogatory, slang) A supporter of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation; by extension, a member of any Hindu nationalist party.


economic nationalism

economic nationalism (usually uncountable, plural economic nationalisms)

The risk of that V-shaped recession being drawn out into a U, or even the dreaded L – a blow from which we barely recover, bumping along the bottom for years – grows if world leaders retreat into economic nationalism.

2020 April 9, Gaby Hinsliff, “We used to moan about normal life, now our fear is we'll never get it back”, in The Guardian:

Economic policies that favour the home nation, sometimes at the expense of other nations.


maulana

Ultimately from Arabic مَوْلَانَا (mawlānā).
The Indian slang usage of the term for any Muslim person was derived from a stereotype, especially towards Muslims who look stereotypical (beard, robes, and skullcap).

(India, Islam, Internet slang, religious slur) A Muslim person in general, especially an extreme conservative.


Afrocentrism

From Afro- + -centrism. The adjective Afrocentric dates to the early 1960s; "Afrocentrism" is attested from the late 1960s or early 1970s, both in the context of the civil rights movement and black nationalism in the United States.


multiculti

From German Multikulti. By itself a clipping of multiculturalism.

Tired of the endless battle between liberals and identity politicians, Western civvies and multicultis?

1992, Lingua franca: the review of academic life: Volume 3:

She claimed the Labour Party had been "hijacked by Muslims and multicultis"[…]

2010, Sam Cherribi, In the House of War: Dutch Islam Observed, page 167:

(informal, derogatory) One who pushes multicultural beliefs and values in a politically correct way.


Eurabia

/jʊəˈɹeɪbiə/

Moreover, the fear of an emerging "Eurabia" ignores the vast economic and cultural differences between immigrant populations in the different European countries...

2006, Hent de Vries, Lawrence Eugene Sullivan, Political theologies: public religions in a post-secular world:

Among those who connect the unfolding of Eurabia with a popular reaction that might bring back fascism to Europe is Canadian columnist Mark Steyn.

2007, José Pedro Zúquete, Missionary politics in contemporary Europe:

Cultural Islam and the myth of Eurabia

2008, Olivier Roy, The politics of chaos in the Middle East:

(derogatory) A supposed future Europe that has undergone Islamization.


Russophobe

/ˈɹʌsə(ʊ̯)fəʊ̯b/

/ˈɹʌsəfoʊ̯b/

For the most part these commentators and critics were Russophobes of strongly hawkish views.

1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 7:

Someone who despises Russians, the country of Russia, or Russian influence.


Pan-Africanism

A sociopolitical movement seeking to unify native Africans and those of African heritage into a global community.


Nashi

A northeast wind which occurs in winter on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf.


Nashi

Pyrus pyrifolia
Pyrus pyrifolia#Translingual

A fruit, the Nashi pear, Pyrus pyrifolia.


Nashi

Alternative form of Nakhi (“ethnic group”)


Zionistic

en-adj

Zionistic (comparative more Zionistic, superlative most Zionistic)

more Zionistic (comparative)
most Zionistic (superlative)


Hindian

From Hind + -ian, or a conflation of Hindi or Hindu and Indian. The term seems to have been coined several times independently.

Dravida Kazhagam was started by E. V. Ramaswany in 1944 to protect Dravida Nadu, comprising the southern regions of the Indian subcontinent, from northern domination (more specifically Hindian domination) by establishing an independent Dravidian Nation. [...] Hindian domination of Tamil Nadu culturally, continued Hindi imposition, transfer of billions of Rupees from Tamil Nadu to Hindi states during the past five decades and the total impotence of Tamil Nadu politicians to do anything about it have convinced Tamil nationalists that Tamil national rights cannot be protected within India and the liberation of Tamil Nadu from Indian rule is the only solution. [parentheticals removed]

2006, Shankarlal C. Bhatt, Land and People of Indian States and Union Territories, volume 25, Tamil Nadu: Gyan Publishing House, page 139:

(Dravidianism) A Hindustani in the sense of an Indian from north of the Deccan, a Hindustani-speaker or a bearer of that culture

(Hindutva) A native Indian of whatever religion, as a person of Hindu culture

In the end surely the Hindians must triumph. The peninsula's too small and they're just too powerful.

1989, Rajiva Wijesinha, Days of Despair, page 120:

the misunderstandings and differences between Dutch and Hindians—the terminological shifts between Dutch and Europeans, on the one hand, and between Hindians and Javanese on the other

2004, Hendrik M. J. Maier, We are Playing Relatives: A Survey of Malay Writing:


Hindian

en-adjective

Hindian (comparative more Hindian, superlative most Hindian)

more Hindian (comparative)
most Hindian (superlative)

It was for this reason that it made very good sense to continue to cultivate Agni, who had been critical of the Hindian offensive while also making clear his opposition to the methods the Tigers had adopted […] it was patently absurd to talk of a concerted Hindian foreign policy.

1989, Rajiva Wijesinha, Days of Despair, page 130,164:

The Hindian boy was consequently marched into Sister Baseball's private office and whacked solidly for an hour

2020, Marcia Macguire, Too Late to Barter, page 11:


Hindian

An old name for the Zohreh River separating Khuzistan and Bushehr provinces, named after the town.


cybernationalism

Instead, Palestinian cybernationalism has striven to unify the dispersed Palestinian communities across borders into a nation...

2005, Rebecca L. Stein, Ted Swedenburg, Palestine, Israel, and the politics of popular culture, page 135:

...strengthening the affective dimensions of a newer, virtual, or cybernationalism now unbound by traditional ideological, political, economic, geographical, and even temporal boundaries and limitations.

2009, Anna Everett, Digital diaspora: a race for cyberspace, page 34:

Nationalism expressed or organised by means of computer networks.


Nasserism

An Arab nationalist political ideology based on the thinking of the former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

نَاصِرِيَّة

an Arab nationalist political ideology based on the thinking of the former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser


Atlanticism

From Atlantic + -ism, from the name of the Atlantic Ocean between the two continents.

Dugin’s main argument in Foundations came straight from Haushofer’s pages: the need to thwart the conspiracy of “Atlanticism” led by the United States and NATO and aimed at containing Russia within successive geographic rings of newly independent states.

2016 July 27, Charles Clover, “The Unlikely Origins of Russia's Manifest Destiny”, in Foreign Policy:

(politics) A philosophy of cooperation among Western European and North American nations.


hypernationalism

en-noun

hypernationalism (usually uncountable, plural hypernationalisms)

The most talked-about new book here, “China is Unhappy,” combines hypernationalism with biting criticism of Western mismanagement and of China’s reluctance to grasp its place in history.

2009 April 2, Michael Wines, “An Unsure China Steps Onto the Global Stage”, in New York Times:

Extreme nationalism, the belief in the superiority of one's nation and of the paramount importance of advancing it.


Tea Party

In reference to the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation.

Various independent, fiscally conservative political groups in the twenty-first-century United States, taken as a whole.


Know-Nothingism

(historical) The doctrines, principles, or practices of the Know-Nothings.


Know-Nothing

Party members claimed to know nothing about the party when questioned.

The legacy of the Know-Nothings lived beyond its life as an organization. The seeds of bigotry, fear and hatred bore fruit again in the years after the Civil War.[…]
The First World War led to another outbreak of nativism. A new group, adopting the program of the Know-Nothings and the name of the Ku Klux Klan, came into being, denouncing everything its members disliked—Negroes, Catholics, Jews, evolutionists, religious liberals, internationalists, pacifists—in the name of true Americanism and of “Nordic superiority.”

1964, John F. Kennedy, “Immigration Policy”, in A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:

(historical) A member of a secret antiforeigner political organization in the nineteenth-century United States.


Yugoslavism

Straighforward Serbian nationalism, in this pressure-cooker, mutated into Yugoslavism.

2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 381:

Nationalism or patriotism centred upon the Yugoslav ("South Slav") peoples within the Yugoslav-populated territories of Southeastern Europe.


Kemalism

From Kemal + -ism, after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.


ethnonationalism

ethnonationalism (countable and uncountable, plural ethnonationalisms)

It risks triteness to note that during the past two decades ethnonationalism has been an extremely consequential force throughout the first, second, and third worlds.

1987, Walker Connor, “Ethnonationalism”, in Understanding Political Development: an Analytic Study, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 196:

This ultimate concern underscores the elitist, bourgeois and ultimately conservative dimension that is one of the several faces of Catalan ethnonationalism, although in fact throughout its history the movement has a history of 'pacting' across class lines.

1998, William A. Douglass, “A western perspective on an eastern interpretation of where north meets south: Pyrenean borderland cultures”, in Nation and State at International Frontiers, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 73:

As central Party control weakened, independence demands grew in other republike, inspired in part by local ethnonationalisms and fear of living in a Yugoslavia dominated by Serbian ethnonationalists.

2010, Moira Inghilleri, Sue-Ann Harding, Translation and Violent Conflict, page 228:

Since 1863 Polish 'National Democrats' like Roman Dmowski had abandoned the idea of a multinational commonwealth for a more 'modem' Polish ethnonationalism.

2011, Andrew Wilson, Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 157:

In the post, Mr. Johnson wrote that his initial reaction to Mr. Breivik’s killing spree was “largely anger, because I feared that his actions would harm not just Norwegian ethnonationalism but white nationalism around the world.”

2019 November 4, Liam Stack, quoting Greg Johnson, “American White Nationalist Is Arrested in Norway”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, ethnonationalism has taken center stage. Mr. Dodik is not alone in his radical ways: Muslim Bosniaks, the largest ethnic group, have agitated for a unitary state, and Bosnian Croats have demanded an autonomous Croat region.

2021 November 17, Srecko Latal, “Bosnia Is On the Brink of Breaking Up”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A type of nationalism which defines the nation in terms of a shared ethnicity.


sakoku

Borrowed from Japanese 鎖国, literally "closed country".

(historical) The foreign policy of Japan between the 1630s and 1866, during which entry to and exit from Japan were severely restricted.


Zionize

en-verb

Zionize (third-person singular simple present Zionizes, present participle Zionizing, simple past and past participle Zionized)

Zionizes (present singular third-person)
Zionizing (participle present)
Zionized (participle past)
Zionized (past)

(sometimes derogatory) to make (something) Zionist or more Zionist


flag, motherhood and apple pie

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-flag, motherhood and apple pie.wav

(US, symbolically) Patriotism and traditional US values.


mom and apple pie

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-mom and apple pie.wav

(US, symbolically) Wholesomeness and traditional (American) values.


Kuomintang

c. 1912, from the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 國民黨／国民党 (Guómíndǎng), Wade–Giles: Kuo²-min²-tang³.

It is generally believed that the creation of the Kuomintang will somewhat straighten out the political tangle in China caused by the multitude of parties. The Kuomintang holds itself out as the democratic party, and its support of the President will be tempered by the path his future actions take.

1912 September 7, “The Passing of the Tungmenghui”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume CIV, number 2352, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 686, column 3:

The trend of events from the founding of the Republic to the unseating of the Kuomintang members of the National Assembly in November, 1913, however, confirmed the belief held in many quarters that republicanism was not a suitable system of government for the Chinese in their present stage of political development.

1916, F. L. Pratt, “CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 1915”, in China Mission Year Book 1916, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, page 24:

He drew lists of Party cadre members of both before and after forty-nine, and pored over the scant details of those entrusted with the takeover of big enterprises where technological know-how was required: in particular the Kiangnan shipyard, a massive affair from which the Kuomintang elements had repeatedly to be purged.

1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 238:

The Kuomintang Party, after capturing 62 of the 71 seats in the Dec. 3 legislative elections, has retained control of the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan, the bastion of recovery, that it has held for the past 30 years.

1983 December 4, “6.7 Million Voters Select 71 Legislators”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIV, number 48, Taipei, page 1:

By 1927, these gangs had come to play a cardinal political role, serving as agents of the Kuomintang in dealing with unions, radicals, and other opponents of the regime.

1985, Harold R. Isaacs, Re-encounters in China: Notes of a Journey in a Time Capsule, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 6:

If we say that the Communist Parties in West European countries are tainted with some undesirable traditions of the social-democratic parties, the Chinese Communist Party is more or less tainted with the undesirable traditions of the Kuomintang. The concept of “ruling the country by the party”, held by some comrades, is a manifestation in our Party of an abominable tradition of the Kuomintang.

1992 [1941 April 15], Xiaoping Deng, “The Party and the Anti-Japanese Democratic Government”, in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:

Next door, you can't miss the Fushan Illuminated Wall, a huge sign with red Chinese characters on a white background declaring: "Sleep with one's sword ready." Its purpose was to brace the islands' Kuomintang troops and to warn off the Communist troops always watching from just across the waters.

2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 203:

In February, the newly elected mayor of Taipei, Chiang Wan-an, welcomed a delegation from the Shanghai branch of the Taiwan Affairs Office. Andrew Hsia, a Kuomintang vice chairman, went to China and met with Wang Huning and Song Tao, two key figures in Beijing’s Taiwan strategy.

2023 March 27, Chris Horton, “Taiwan’s Ex-President Heads to China in Historic and Closely Watched Visit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-27, Asia Pacific:

A nationalist political party founded under Sun Yat-sen in 1912 that ruled mainland China from 1928 to 1949, now one of three major parties in the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Chinese History: A New Manual
Harvard University Press
Kuomintang

國民黨

a nationalist political party in pre-Communist China, and contemporary Taiwan

Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang


rejoiner

From rejoin + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (ideological suffix).

All these obstacles are real. None can be wished away. Which is why rejoiners need to look to the likes of [Nigel] Farage and [John] Redwood for inspiration.

2023 June 23, Jonathan Freedland, “With even leavers regretting Brexit, there’s one path back to rejoining the EU”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK politics) Someone who wants the United Kingdom to join the European Union again.


homonationalism

en-noun

homonationalism (countable and uncountable, plural homonationalisms)

Coined by Jasbir Puar. From homo- + nationalism.

(neologism) The favourable association of LGBTI people and/or LGBTI rights with a nationalist ideology.


Ukrainianism

Ukrainianism (countable and uncountable, plural Ukrainianisms)


chetnik

From Serbo-Croatian četnik, from četa (“band, group”) + -nik.

The Visegrad gathering, which saw uniform-wearing participants singing songs that included lines such as "there will be hell, the Drina will be bloody, here come the Chetniks from the Serb mountains’, provoked wariness and fear among Bosniak residents who survived some of the worst atrocities committed by Chetniks.

2019 March 11, Mersiha Gadzo, “Serb Chetnik gathering in Bosnia’s Visegrad raises alarm”, in Al Jazeera:

An adherent of an nationalist revival of the historical Chetnik movement.


Sinocentrism

From Sino- (prefix meaning ‘relating to China or the Chinese’) + -centrism (suffix indicating a focus on, or belief in the superiority of, one culture, people, place, or other thing).

confix

Up to now, China's encounter with the West has more or less been exclusively researched under the perspective of Sinocentrism, both by Western and Chinese scholars. [...] Nobody, however biased, can deny the existence, historical and actual, of Sinocentrism, which I at one time called the Celestial Empire Syndrome. It is well known that China had considered itself as the centre of the world since the beginning of the written record until its utter humiliation brought about by the Opium Wars in the 19ᵗʰ century and the Boxers' Revolt later.

1998, Adrian Hsia, “Preface”, in Chinesia: The European Construction of China in the Literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Communicatio; 16), Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg: Max Niemeyer; De Gruyter, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 1:

The so-called ancient Chinese patriotism that has been repeatedly discussed by many people was only sinocentrism (huaxia zhongxing zhuyi).

2000, Suisheng Zhao, quoting Wang Peiyuan, “The Origins of Chinese Nationalism”, in A Nation-state by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 43:

The early tenet of sinocentrism was that the superiority of Zhongguo, the Central State, in wen (culture and civilization) would inevitably dominate the mere military violence (wu) of the Inner Asian tribes.

2006, John King Fairbank, Merle Goldman, “The Paradox of Song China and Inner Asia”, in China: A New History, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass., London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Rise and Decline of the Imperial Autocracy), page 112:

Finally, Sinocentrism culminated in China's self-adulation when Malindi sent an emissary with a giraffe to the Ming Emperor via Cheng Ho's imperial fleet in 1419.

2012, John Shen, “Foreword: Thoughts on the Use of Chinese Documents in the Reconstruction of East African History”, in Li Anshan, A History of Overseas Chinese in Africa to 1911, New York, N.Y.: Diasporic Africa Press, →ISBN, page viii:

(historical) The belief, held by the ancient Chinese, that China was literally the centre of the world.

кітаецэнтрызм

belief that China was literally the centre of the world


Zionistan

Blend of Zionist + -stan, equivalent to Zion + -i- + -stan

(neologism, rare, offensive, derogatory) The State of Israel, viewed as Zionist.


Khalistan

Borrowed from Punjabi ਖ਼ਾਲਿਸਤਾਨ (xālistān) / خالِصْتان (xāliṣtān). Literally, “Land of the Khalsa ”. Analyzable as Khalsa + -i- + -stan.

Indian Subcontinent
Indian Subcontinent#English

(historical) Synonym of Punjab; A region of Indian Subcontinent


saffronization

From saffron + -ization, after the saffron robes worn by Hindu priests and monks.

Given the 'saffronization' of Congress, the 'ethnoreligious purification' of the BJP, and the parturition of the avowedly secular parties (CPI, SJP and BSP) […]

1993, Harold Alton Gould, India votes: alliance politics and minority governments in the ninth and tenth general elections, page 308:

The saffronization of the Shiv Sena, and the fusion of its Maratha-kunbi chauvinism and communalism were natrual outcomes.

1999, Rajeev Bhargava, Multiculturalism, Liberalism, and Democracy, page 241:

The “value education” directives issued in the 81st Report encouraged, in the first instance, the “saffronization” agenda of the BJPled NDA government from 1999.

2015, S. Gupta, Consumable Texts in Contemporary India: Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology:

(India, politics, derogatory) The politics of right-wing Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) that seek to make the Indian state adopt policies that recall and glorify Hindu cultural history and heritage of India at the expense of other religious traditions.

Dravidization

alteration in favour of Dravidian nationalism or separatism


Hindutva

Transliteration of Hindi हिंदुत्व (hindutva) / Bengali হিন্দুত্ব (hindutto, literally “Hinduness”). Coined by Chandranath Basu in 1892 and further popularised by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

Bharatwasi

online slang terms for Hindutva supporters, may sometimes be derogatory

swayamsevak

a member of RSS, a Hindutva paramilitary organisation

chaddi

derogatory online slang term for Hindutva supporters

In India, too, people now wish to bring that argument to a close: to replace the ruckus of politics with the moralized ideology of Hindutva.

2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 284:

China’s one-party meritocracy, Putin’s uncrowned czardom, the post-Arab Spring triumph of dictatorship and monarchy over religious populism in the Middle East, the Hindutva populism transforming Indian democracy — these aren’t just all indistinguishable forms of “autocracy,” but culturally distinctive developments that fit well with Huntington’s typology[…]

2022 March 30, Ross Douthat, “Yes, There Is a Clash of Civilizations”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


Russianism

en-noun

Russianism (countable and uncountable, plural Russianisms)

(uncountable) A nationalist and militarist ideology that promotes Russia.


Russophobic

en-adj

Russophobic (comparative more Russophobic, superlative most Russophobic)

more Russophobic (comparative)
most Russophobic (superlative)


Palestinianism

Palestinian nationalism; advocacy of Palestinian independence and autonomy.


Palestinianist

A proponent of Palestinianism, Palestinian nationalism.


ziofascism

(derogatory, offensive, see usage notes) An authoritarian or totalitarian form of Zionism.


ziofascist

ziofascist (comparative more ziofascist, superlative most ziofascist)

more ziofascist (comparative)
most ziofascist (superlative)


anti-Zionism

Opposition to Zionism; activism against Zionism.


Banderite

First attested in 1951. Borrowed from Ukrainian банде́рівець (bandérivecʹ) + -ite, from the surname of Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist leader. Compare Russian банде́ровец (bandɛ́rovec).

bor+

банде́рівець

(sometimes derogatory) A nationalist Ukrainian.


America Firster

en-noun

America Firster (plural America Firsters)

(US politics) A supporter of any one of the "America First" isolationist movements or parties.


Quebecistan

(derogatory) Quebec, viewed as a hostile separatist region


North Atlantic Terrorist Organization

A backronym of NATO, substituting the T word to affirm a negative point, implying that the organization is inherently belligerent.

Canada is a member of a megamurder club, a North Atlantic Terrorist Organization.

1970 December 8, James Eayrs, “Morality and Violence: The Insane Strategy of Peace Through “Megamurder””, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, year 45, number 7, Kingston, Ont., page six:

They are the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization.

1999 March 29, Milutin Tamasijevic, “South Florida Serbs unite in fear, frustration, anger”, in The Miami Herald, 97th year, number 196, page 1B:

The arsonists left notes at two of the sites, one of which denounced the “North Atlantic Terrorist Organization” and asserted that “the fake Albanian refugee crisis was manufactured by the International Jewsmedia to justify the terrorizing, the bestial bombing of our Yugoslavia back into the dark ages.”

2000, Lawrence Grossman, David Singer, editors, American Jewish Year Book 2000, →ISBN, page 163:

(geopolitics, derogatory) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.


independentism

His emphasis on this aspect, which is a tragic contributory factor to independentism in South Africa, has established a blind spot in his analysis of the causes for the rise of the movement.

1967, Gerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen, The Theology of a South African Messiah, page 146:

This projection has been the strategic underpinning of independentism since the early 1960s.

1987, Alfredo López, Dona Licha's Island: Modern Colonialism in Puerto Rico, page 129:

ERC’s new independentism put an end to its historic indefinition and ambiguity and was consolidated in 1989.

2014, Jaime Lluch, Visions of Sovereignty, page 58:

Advocacy of independence (for example of a non-independent state).


vatnik

Borrowed from Russian ва́тник (vátnik, literally “quilted jacket”). The sense of "unintelligent Russian patriot" was derived from the jackets worn by Soviet citizens and an online cartoon about a sentient jacket known by the same name.
The term was popularized in Russia in 2011 and re-popularized at large in 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine to refer to supporters of the invasion, especially online users, even if they are not from Russia. Reflecting usage in Ukrainian and Russian, the term was later extended to refer to Russian soldiers who were involved in war against Ukraine.

bor

(derogatory, Internet slang, neologism, by extension) A supporter of Vladimir Putin, Russian nationalism, or the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine; a Putinist.


homonationalist

(LGBT) Of, pertaining to, or supporting homonationalism.


Kimilsungism

Juche, the political thesis formed by the former North Korean leader Kim Il-sung.


Kimjongilism

(politics) Juche; the political thesis formed by the former North Korean leader Kim Il-sung, as subsequently influenced by Kim Jong-il.


prozionist

1999 JGA, Re: Orthodox Exodus from the State of Israel Group: soc.culture.jewish
Purge the leftists out of positions of influence and give zionist Jews who really love Israel a break from the "aliyah pimps" and you'll see plenty of prozionist US Jews coming in the next few years.

2003 Syvanen, Re: Amram Mitzna (Re: OT: This boycott won't help Palestinians) Group: alt.atheism
But each site was maintained by the most partisan proisraeli organizations and a reference to a Krauthammer article Not one independent newspaper hit. I am highly skeptical about the veracity of this quote. Mike Syvanen He made similar comments in a Palestinian newspaper article. All I see is the most extreme prozionist.

2009, Joe Brono, re: hitler didn't have the bomb Group: alt.revisionism
it's only a matter of time before the juwesa military splits up into prozionist and antizionist forces.


Ziochristian

2004 Doug Bashford, Re: SILLY Dems IGNORE CHRISTIANS to LOSE Election ? Amen Brother Randy! Group: talk.politics.misc
about Catholic's Pope declaring Iraq war as illegal and immoral (unjust). alt.religion.christian.baptist, lst night - in a fight with a Ziochristian who loves Nazism and ignores Jesus' message of love and tolerance.

2005, gaffo, Re: Bush Sez Atheists Can't Be President Group: alt.politics.bush
A modern-day Ziochristian Reich equivalent to the Kings of Old Judea's beleife that Judea was God's Nation

2013 John Cooper, Re: Hitler and the Millennial reign of Christ Group: alt.bible.prophecy
When it all goes pear-shaped, there is going to be a backlash against 'End-Timers', Ziochristians, Christian Dominionists, prophetic 'experts', and 'Bible-believing' Christians generally.


LPR

Coordinate term: DPR

Lugansk People's Republic
Lugansk People's Republic#English

Luhansk People's Republic
Luhansk People's Republic#English

Initialism of Lugansk People's Republic. or Initialism of Luhansk People's Republic.


swadeshi

PIE word
 *swé
Borrowed from Hindi स्वदेशी (svadeśī, “nationalist, patriotic; policy of nationalist self-sufficiency, swadeshi; proponent of the swadeshi movement”), from स्वदेश (svadeś, “one’s own country”) + -ई (-ī, suffix forming adjectives, or forming nouns meaning a person who does an action indicated by the stem). स्वदेश is derived from Sanskrit स्वदेश (svadeśa), from स्व (sva, “his or her own”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“(pronoun) self”)) + देश (deśa, “country; point, place”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to point out”)).

der

The Swadeshi movement in India is one which in certain of its aspects can be regarded with much sympathy. A spirit of patriotism is excellent, and the endeavour to engender and foster it, provided it is made along legitimate lines, calls for encouragement and not condemnation.

1906 September, “[Editorial Notes.] Missionaries Assaulted in a Swadeshi Riot.”, in The Church Missionary Intelligencer: A Monthly Journal of Missionary Information, volume XXXI (New Series; volume LVII overall), London: Church Missionary Society, […], →OCLC, page 713:

The Swadeshi movement, in its bad sense—the boycotting of foreign goods—has had no effect on imports as a whole, and even the articles specifically aimed at, cotton goods and sugar, have entered to an unparalleled extent in the last three years. The good side of the Swadeshi movement, the development of indigenous industries, is seen in the increased imports of textile machinery and metals.

1907 July, “Notes on Colonial and Foreign Banking, Finance and Commerce. [Indian Foreign Trade.]”, in The Bankers’, Insurance Managers’ & Agents’ Magazine, volume LXXXIV, number 760, London: Waterlow and Sons […], →OCLC, page 61:

The cry of the Indian "Insurgent" to-day is "Shiksha," (education,) education in all its phases and branches, both extensive and intensive; "Swadeshi," (home industries) and "Swaraj" (self-government).

1911 December 30, Basanta Koomar Roy, “Insurgency in India”, in Robert M[arion] La Follette, editor, La Follette’s Weekly Magazine, volume III, number 52, Madison, Wis.: Robert M. La Follette Company, →OCLC, page 8, column 1:

And yet long before this popular ebullition of excitement, I myself had given a thousand rupees, when I had not five rupees to call my own, to open a Swadeshi store and courted banter and bankruptcy.

1921 March 5, Rabindranath Tagore, “Chicago, March 5, 1921”, in C[harles] F[reer] A[ndrews], editor, Letters from Abroad, Triplicane, Madras, Tamil Nadu: S. Ganesan, published 1924, →OCLC, page 78:

My work should be, and therefore is, to organise the production of handspun cloth, and to find means for the disposal of the Khadi thus produced. [...] I swear by this form of Swadeshi, because through it I can provide work to the semi-starved, semi-employed women of India.

1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “An Instructive Dialogue”, in Mahadev Haribhai Desai and Pyarelal Nair, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume II, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC, part V, page 572:

The anti-partition agitation with its vehement invective, its appeals to Hindu sentiment, its cry that Bengal as motherland, once rich and famous, had been torn in two despite the protests of her children, its proposals for enforcing a punitive boycott of foreign goods and supplanting them entirely by "swadeshi" indigenous products, its enlistment of students and school-boys in picketing operations, gave ample cover for the sedulous teaching of revolutionary doctrines.

1932, H[enry] Verney Lovett, “The Rise of an Extremist Party”, in H[enry] H[erbert] Dodwell, editor, The Cambridge History of India, volumes VI (The Indian Empire 1858–1918 […]), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 551:

When H[erbert] H[ope] Risley—writing in 1909 just after the swadeshi movement had introduced the possibility of mass agitational politics as well as he specter of communal violence in Bengal—contemplated the political implications of the caste system, he confirmed British assumption by declaring that caste opposed nationality and would hinder the growth of nationalist politics.

1996, Nicholas B. Dirks, “The Conversion of Caste: Location, Translation, and Appropriation”, in Peter van der Veer, editor, Conversion to Modernities: The Globalization of Christianity, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 115:

Mahatma Gandhi was not only a politician but an economic, social and religious reformer too. He felt that if swaraj or self-government was to mean anything for the dumb millions of the country the national movement must touch all aspects of the villager's life. He also developed his scheme of the revival of charkha and the development of swadeshi.

2009, G. R. Madan, “Rural Community Development”, in Indian Social Problems: Social Disorganization and Reconstruction, 6th edition, volume 2 (Social Work), New Delhi, Mumbai, Maharashtra: Allied Publishers, published 2012, →ISBN, page 192:

With tension all around, the police laid siege to large areas of the city and started raiding various homes and educational institutions and whosoever was even remotely connected with nationalism and swadeshi were promptly arrested.

2013, Samir Bhattacharya, “The Honour of the Country Comes First Always and Everytime^([sic])”, in Nothing But!: Book 2: The Long Road to Freedom, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Partridge India, →ISBN, page 164:

The first Indian Industrial Conference meeting in 1905, bringing together industrialists from all over India, decided to "foster and extend the use of such manufactures in India in preference to foreign goods." That demand intersected with the emerging Swadeshi movement, which advocated Indian self-sufficiency, especially in cottons, and symbolized the confluence of cotton entrepreneurs and the emerging nationalist political elites.

2014, Sven Beckert, “The Return of the Global South”, in Empire of Cotton: A Global History, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, published November 2015, →ISBN, page 420:

Is this news? Not to [Mahatma] Gandhi, whose swadeshi campaigns of local self-reliance drew support away from the dominating colonial paradigm of pauperizing indigenous populations by making them producers of raw materials and consumers of value-added products, [...]

2014, Tom H. Hastings, “Part 2: Promote Nonviolent Conflict Management”, in A New Era of Nonviolence: The Power of Civil Society over War, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, section I (Ending Civil Wars), page 78:

(India, economics, politics, also attributively) A policy of nationalist self-sufficiency in India, involving the revival and promotion of domestic production and (originally) the boycott of British products.


cybernationalist

In China, cybernationalists have hacked websites of foreign governments and business corporations, but generally speaking, internet contention in Chinese cyberspace assumes less radical forms.

2009, Kevin J. O'Brien, Popular Protest in China, page 250:

One who takes part in nationalist activism on the Internet or in cyberspace.


cybernat

Clipping of cybernationalist as a play on cybernaut, said to have been coined by British politician George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock (born 1942): see the 5 July 2012 quotation.

He [Iain Gray] added: “Back in May I asked Alex Salmond to get a grip of these ‘cyber nats’ bloggers. At the time they were spreading rumours about me and other politicians as well. I think Alex Salmond has to come to parliament, apologise, and explain just exactly what has gone on.”

2009 November 29, “Parties Demand Salmond Holds Blog Smear Inquiry”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2009-12-02:

The time could not be more crucial, with the referendum on Scottish independence only two years away, and fears emerging that the war of words between so-called ‘cybernats’ and ‘cyberbrits’ could distort or even stifle mainstream political discourse. Labour peer Lord Foulkes claims crediting for coining the term cybernat to describe Nationalists and supporters of independence who conduct rhetorical guerrilla warfare on Twitter, Facebook and the comment threads of newspaper websites. Rather than initiating discussions about policy or ideas, cybernats demonise those opposed to the SNP and independence and dismiss them as, inter alia, cowardly, unpatriotic, and even traitorous.

2012 July 5, “Cybernats and Cyberbrits: How Do They Affect Mainstream Political Debate?: Scotland Tonight Discusses the Phenomenon of Abusive Online Comments and Attacks”, in STV, archived from the original on 2016-10-27:

Currently, he [Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan] openly presents himself as a 'vauntie cybernat, former ambassador, and human rights activist', keeping him in sync with the alternative diplomatic culture he always practised, though he now freely engages in the everyday ambassadorship he once struggled to legitimate among his peers.

2015, Jason Dittmer, Fiona McConnell, editors, Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics: Translations, Spaces and Alternatives (Routledge New Diplomacy Studies), Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:

The much-vaunted phenomenon of the "cybernat", spraying online vitriol from a dingy bedroom, does indubitably exist, but so does its exact equivalent on the opposite side.

2016, Mike Parker, “Caledonia Dreaming: September – December 2014”, in The Greasy Poll: Diary of a Controversial Election, Talybont, Ceredigion, Wales: Y Lolfa, →ISBN:

(British, informal) A Scottish nationalist who takes part in Internet activism.


Zionistical

en-adj

Zionistical (comparative more Zionistical, superlative most Zionistical)

more Zionistical (comparative)
most Zionistical (superlative)


Luhansk People's Republic

Calque of Russian Луга́нская Наро́дная Респу́блика (Lugánskaja Naródnaja Respúblika) and/or Ukrainian Луганська народна республіка (Luhansʹka narodna respublika).

calque

Луга́нская Наро́дная Респу́блика

Луганська народна республіка

On April 27, pro-Russia separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk declared the establishment of a “Luhansk People’s Republic.” Gathered outside the seized regional headquarters of the Ukrainian Security Service, protesters said they would ask Russia to send troops to the Ukrainian region if the Kyiv authorities took “aggressive actions” against the separatists.

2014 April 28, “Separatists Declare ‘People’s Republic’ In Ukraine’s Luhansk”, in Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:

The people who have taken over the building of the Ukrainian Security Service’s department in Luhansk region have announced the creation of the Luhansk People’s Republic and decided to conduct the regional-wide referendum putting for a vote a question: “Do you uphold the act on proclamation of the state independence of ‘Luhansk People’s Republic?’”

2014 April 28, “Parliament to consider possibility of all-Ukrainian referendum on April 29 - justice minister”, in Interfax-Ukraine:

In September 2014, an admittedly small and imperfect poll by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation named after Ilko Kucheriv and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found that 42 percent of Donbas residents wanted to stay in Ukraine but with more autonomy from Kyiv and 7 percent wanted to stay in Ukraine with no changes, while 26 percent wanted the Donetsk People’s Republic or the Luhansk People’s Republic to be independent and 16 percent wanted to join Russia — that is, 49 percent were for Ukraine and 42 percent for Russia.

2015 April 30th, Anders Åslund, Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It, Washington, D.C.: Peterson Institute for International Economics, chapter ii: “Why Ukraine Can and Should Opt for Radical Reforms Now”, § 1: ‘What Are Putin’s Intentions?’, pages 18–19

A Russian-backed, partially-recognized secessionist state proclaimed in {Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine on the 27th of April, 2014.

جُمْهُورِيَّة لُوغَانْسْك الشَّعْبِيَّة

secessionist state in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine


Donetsk People's Republic

Calque of Russian Доне́цкая Наро́дная Респу́блика (Donéckaja Naródnaja Respúblika) and/or Ukrainian Донецька народна республіка (Donecʹka narodna respublika).

Доне́цкая Наро́дная Респу́блика

Донецька народна республіка

Ukraine appears to be heading towards another crisis. Protests in the eastern cities of Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk have turned violent and pro-Russian protesters occupied government buildings, calling for a referendum on independence. In Donetsk, in an eerie echo of events in Crimea, separatists went one step further and have now proclaimed their own independent Donetsk People’s Republic and asked Russia for support.

2014 April 7, Stefan Wolff, Tatyana Malyarenko, “Ukraine veers closer to collapse as activists in Donetsk proclaim ‘people’s republic’”, in The Conversation:

Meanwhile, members of parliament in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine passed a resolution on Friday saying the territory was the legitimate successor to the Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Republic, a short-lived independent territory founded in 1918 by a close associate of Joseph Stalin.

2015 February 7, Tom Parfitt, “Ukraine crisis: No breakthrough in talks between Hollande, Merkel and Putin”, in The Daily Telegraph:

The Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic will guarantee the safety of the Malaysian criminologists scheduled to work at the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash site.

2015 April 10th, Interfax-Ukraine, “Russian-supported militants guarantee safety of Malaysian criminologists at Boeing crash site” in the Kyiv Post

A Russian-backed, partially-recognized secessionist state proclaimed in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on 7 April, 2014.

جُمْهُورِيَّة دُونِيتْسْك الشَّعْبِيَّة

secessionist state in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine


ethnopluralism

From ethno- + pluralism, attributed to French New Right intellectual Alain de Benoist.

Overall, identitarians favor ethnopluralism, which is the idea that nations or ethnicities should not live in the same multicultural societies but rather in geopolitically separate territories (Salzborn 2016, 41; Hentges et al. 2014, 17).

2020, Melissa Schnyder, Noha Shawki, Advocating for Refugees in the European Union, →ISBN, page 91:

To the degree that there is a theory underlying this radical right nationalism, it is “ethnopluralism.” A term coined by the French New Right intellectual, Alain de Benoist, ethnopluralism stipulates the “equivalency of homogenous peoples in their indigenous territories.”

2021, Christian Joppke, Neoliberal Nationalism: Immigration and the Rise of the Populist Right, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 47:

A right-wing theory of multiculturalism, supporting separatism, and according to which cultures hinge on ethnicities bound to specific geographic locations.


Brexit

Blend of Britain + exit, formed by analogy with Grexit.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest attested use is on 15 May 2012 in a Euractiv blog post by Peter Wilding titled “Stumbling towards the Brexit”, formed by analogy with Grexit, coined on 6 February 2012.

Unless a clear view is pushed that Britain must lead in Europe at the very least to achieve the completion of the single market then the portmanteau for Greek euro exit might be followed by another sad word, Brexit.

2012 May 15, Peter Wilding, “Stumbling towards the Brexit”, in EurActiv, archived from the original on 2016-06-24:

The business community began to take the idea of Brexit seriously. Three major American banks, the Bank of America, Citibank and Morgan Stanley, revealed they were working on contingency plans to relocate from London to Dublin […]

2015, Denis MacShane, Brexit: How Britain Will Leave Europe, London: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 6:

David Cameron has resigned as Prime Minister after Britain voted to leave the European Union. It followed a turbulent night with Remain campaigners quietly confident until the early hours when results from Newcastle and Sunderland showed better than expected returns for the Brexit camp. A surprise victory for a Brexit in Swansea, which was expected to vote to Remain, did little to dampen concerns despite Scotland overwhelmingly backing staying in the Union.

2016 June 24, Kate McCann, “EU referendum live: David Cameron resigns after UK shocks the world by voting for Brexit”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 2016-06-24:

The pensions of British Eurocrats are shaping up to be one of the most politically poisonous points in the UK’s Brexit talks, as the EU and London prepare to clash over liabilities running to several billion euros.

2016 August 1, Alex Barker, Jim Brunsden, “Eurocrats’ pensions shape up to be flashpoint in Brexit talks”, in The Financial Times, London:

We must lift the uncertainty caused by Brexit.

2017 June 19, Michel Barnier, “Brexit Negotiations: David Davis says ‘Promising Start’ Made”, in BBC News:

[Donald] Tusk said: “Our agreement will not make trade between the UK and the EU frictionless or smoother. It will make it more complicated and costly than today, for all of us. This is the essence of Brexit.”

2018 March 7, Daniel Boffey, Jennifer Rankin, “EU scorns UK’s ‘pick and mix’ approach to trade post-Brexit”, in The Guardian, London:

Meanwhile, The Sunday Times revealed that civil servants had warned of a “Doomsday Brexit” if no agreement is reached, creating shortages of medicine, fuel and food.

2018 June 5, “Brexit poll reveals record number of voters think decision to leave EU is wrong”, in The Independent, London:

“It’s all incredibly unhelpful and what we need to do now is to get closer with our European partners and work out what a realistic, pragmatic Brexit is that works for both sides, the EU and ourselves.”

2018 June 23, “Brexit: Theresa May ‘not bluffing’ in threat to leave EU without a deal, Tory minister Liam Fox says”, in The Independent, London:

A further referendum is not just a way for voters to decide whether to incur the economic and social cost of a final Brexit deal.

2019 March 5, David Miliband, “As foreign secretary I argued against an EU referendum. Now I back one”, in The Guardian:

The EESC also considers that the €5.4 billion reserve will not be sufficient to mitigate the negative effects of Brexit and asks the co-legislators to increase the proposed ceiling.

2021 November, Christiaan van Lierop, European Parliamentary Research Service:

Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc’s asylum scheme.

2021 December 2, “Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling”, in Euronews, sourced from AFP:

Thanks to Brexit, many ferry companies now run direct from Ireland to the EU mainland, bypassing UK ports such as Fishguard, with an impact on traffic.

2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52:

Even the BBC, long prevaricating on the issue, has started properly reporting the Brexit catastrophe, particularly its impact on the cost of living, NHS staff shortages and projections of weak future economic growth.

2023 February 2, Andrew Adonis, “Sooner or later, re-entry to the customs union and single market is inevitable”, in Prospect:

Biden’s irritation with London’s inability to solve its “Irish question” after Brexit has also played a role.

2023 August 7, Jo Harper, “UK–US: What’s happened to their free trade deal?”, in Deutsche Welle:

The mayor of London has urged EU citizens to “choose London” over other European cities, promising to make the UK capital a better place to live and work despite Brexit.

2023 October 6, Heather Stewart, “‘Choose London’: Sadiq Khan steps up efforts to lure EU citizens post-Brexit”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The Brexit referendum seemingly heralded such a moment but other than the negative sentiment of leave, the more positive agenda of what to do with the UK’s newfound status has been found wanting.

2023 November 3, Tim Olivier, “Brexit: a critical juncture in the UK’s international relations?”, in UK in a Changing Europe:

The Brits have been uniquely incompetent in wallowing in narcissistic irrelevance ever since the Brexit vote. They’ve refused to admit that the only path forward for them is a crippling deal with the United States that will give them access to the NAFTA system but at the cost of any kind of economic sovereignty.

2023 November 23, Peter Zeihan, “Ireland Needs a New Game Plan || Peter Zeihan”, in Zeihan on Geopolitics, sourced from YouTube, 2:55–3:14:

Brussels has warned the UK that it must fully apply the existing Brexit deals on EU citizens and Northern Ireland before it will entertain a reset in the relationship with London.

2024 August 1, Lisa O'Carroll, “UK must apply existing Brexit deals before any reset in relations, says EU”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), sourced from The Guardian:

(UK politics) Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

بِرِكْزِت

withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU

イギリスの欧州連合離脱

イギリスのおうしゅうれんごうりだつ

خروج بریتانیا از اتحادیه اروپا

xoruj-e beritâniyâ az ettehâdiye-ye orupâ


ethnostate

Richard Spencer and others fantasize about a white ethno-state — this is the Northwest Territorial Imperative, or Northwest Imperative, that would stretch from Montana to Oregon and Washington State.

2019 August 6, Lauretta Charlton, “What Is the Great Replacement?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A political unit that is populated by and run in the interest of an ethnic group.


Dravidianism

(Indian politics) A belief in the need for autonomy and unity, and sometimes the inherent superiority, of the Dravidian peoples of South India.


fuck off, we're full

(Australia, offensive) An anti-immigrant and anti-refugee slogan with racist overtones.


archnationalist

Even in a region where former archnationalists and guerrilla fighters have sought to recast themselves, Mr. Vucic’s transformation from staunch Milosevic ally to ardent proponent of the West is viewed as remarkable.

2014 March 17, Dan Bilefsky, “Ultranationalist-Turned-Liberal Is Expected to Lead Serbia”, in New York Times:


ERG

John Major struggled endlessly with Eurosceptics he termed “bastards”, while May’s nemesis was the European Research Group, or ERG, the longstanding alliance of Brexit ultras.

2022 January 8, Peter Walker, “ERG out, CRG in: the Tory factions Boris Johnson is struggling to appease”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

European Research Group
w:European Research Group

(UK politics) Initialism of European Research Group (“Eurosceptic/pro-Brexit publicly funded political activist group subdivision of the UK Conservatives”).


Europistan

Either Christians will surrender as they did in Europistan, or they will fight back with equal if not greater brutality.

2015, Eric aka the TYGRRRR EXPRESS, Ideological Lunacy:

At this rate we will go the way of Europistan. Italy has had a declining birthrate in recent years. Europe is finished. Its citizens refuse to reproduce while Islamist women keep churning out the next generation of radical Islamists.

2016, Michael Savage, Scorched Earth: Restoring the Country after Obama:

Russia also joined the coalition in 2210 A.D. when the Islamic States of Europistan began to invade sections of the Russian controlled lands.

2016, Davidson L. Haworth, The Icarus Project:

(informal, derogatory or humorous) Europe, perceived as controlled by Islamic interests.


Great Patriotic War

Calque of Russian Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́ (Velíkaja Otéčestvennaja vojná). This term was first used in 1844 to refer to the Russian resistance and victory over Napoleon's invasion, and was evoked again in 1912 during the centenary of the French defeat. In 1941, the newspaper Pravda used the term for the defence against the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in order to motivate citizens to unite and fight.

Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́

(historical, in Soviet or Russian contexts) the German-Soviet war (a portion of World War II fought between the USSR and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945)

الْحَرْب الْوَطَنِيَّة الْعُظْمَى

the war between the USSR and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945


pronationalist

en-adj

pronationalist (comparative more pronationalist, superlative most pronationalist)

more pronationalist (comparative)
most pronationalist (superlative)


Trumpism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The philosophy and politics espoused by Donald Trump.

trumpisme

the philosophy and politics espoused by Donald Trump


Bremain

Blend of Britain + remain, by analogy with Brexit.

"We want Britain to remain in the EU. We want not "Brexit" but "Bremain"."

2015 June 22, David Milliken, “U.S. and EU face 'heavy lift' to get trade deal: EU ambassador”, in Reuters:

Like the old Tory trouper Michael Heseltine, I think we can rule out him leading the “Outers.” For Brexit, read Bremain.

2015 October 8, Paul Routledge, “Europe referendum is the big political issue – but where do the parties stand?”, in The Mirror:

Brexit or Bremain? That is the question British voters may have to answer in just five months’ time on 23 June, if David Cameron’s renegotiation ends with a deal at the EU summit in February.

2016 February 21, Timothy Garton Ash, “Whether Brexit or Bremain, fear will triumph over fear”, in The Guardian:

But today the disconnect was heightened further as London's army of Bremain-backing resident called on the city's new mayor Sadiq Khan, to declare Greater London and its nine million population an independent state.

2016 June 25, Jon Austin, “Could London become an EU state? Calls for independence after capital votes to Bremain”, in Express:

(UK politics) The fact of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union.


Brexiteer

/ˌbɹɛksɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/

From Brexit + -eer, playing on musketeer and the novel The Three Musketeers.

After Ken Clarke's "Charge of Light Brigade" hit on Brexiteers in @Daily_Telegraph, Defra SoS likened to Lord Raglan in #CAP reform debate

2013 June 18, Huw Irranca-Davies, “@huw4ogmore”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2016-11-16:

Whether you are a Europhile or a Brexiteer, it’s hard to see what’s not to like about a market-driven initiative that aims to pull down barriers to more investment across Europe.

2015 October 4, William Wright, “A plan from Brussels where Britain can take the lead”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 2018-11-09:

Denying he [David Cameron] was a "closet Brexiteer", as his former aide Steve Hilton has claimed, the PM told reporters: "I withdraw absolutely nothing I've previously said. Britain is an amazing country. We can find our way whatever the British people choose.

2016 May 27, “David Cameron: I am not a closet Brexiteer”, in The Herald, Glasgow:

A leading Tory Brexiteer has insisted quitting the EU does not mean the numbers of people coming to Britain will be slashed – and claimed Vote Leave never said it would.

2016 June 25, Tim Sculthorpe, “Tory Brexiteer Dan Hannan insists quitting the EU does NOT mean dramatic cuts to the number of immigrants coming to Britain”, in Daily Mail, London, archived from the original on 2016-06-26:

For Brexiteers in the UK, a free trade deal with the US was one of several promises made before and after the 2016 referendum that have failed to come to fruition.

2023 July 8, Jo Harper, “UK-US: What's happened to their free trade deal?”, in dw.com:

[Margaret] Thatcher was no Brexiteer. She was a strong supporter of the Single Market and thought that the [Channel] tunnel would help cement it.

2023 December 27, Christian Wolmar, “Hope springs eternal for greater use of the Channel Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 999, page 26:

(UK politics) Someone who supports Brexit, the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.


congi

From Congress, short for Indian National Congress, a major political party in India.

(India, slang, politics, derogatory) A liberal or a leftist, accused of opposing India, Hinduism, or Hindu nationalism.


Remainiac

Though no Remainiac, I will vote in.

2016 June 11, Rachel Johnson, “RACHEL JOHNSON: Just stop picking on my big brother! (But, sorry Boris, I'm still voting In)”, in The Daily Mail:

Nevertheless, given that my proxy vote is safely secured back in Blighty, an international festival for creativity provides perfect context to ask the question, 'If the EU referendum were a competition in branding, which camp would win?’ Who gets your branding vote, Brexiteer or Remainiac?

2016 June 23, Greg Taylor, “If the EU referendum were a competition in branding, which side would win?”, in The Drum:

2017 August 2, Chris Campbell, “What was the point? Ferrari slates Remainiac in Brexit row for trying to ruin the Proms”, in Daily Express:

Together, they’ve conquered Middle England and seen of the Remainiacs.

2017 August 14, Julia Rampen, “5 unmissable Nigel Farage scenes from Bad Boys of Brexit: The Movie”, in New Statesman:

(UK politics, slang, neologism) One who opposes the idea of Brexit and wishes the United Kingdom to remain a member of the European Union.


Sankarism

The political philosophy of Thomas Sankara.


Brexiter

/ˈbɹɛɡzɪtə(ɹ)/

2016 February 20, Timothy Garton Ash, “Here’s how to argue with a Brexiter – and win”, in The Guardian, title:

Trump and the Tory Brexiters are cut from the same cloth.

2016 March 2, Deborah Orr, “What do Trump and Brexiters have in common? A disregard for all but themselves”, in The Guardian:

The proposal, made ahead of Thursday's crucial vote on Britain's continued EU membership, is designed to deflect accusations that Brexiters - as supporters of Britain's exit from the EU are popularly known - have used crude anti-immigrant and racist slogans to pollute the political debate during the EU referendum campaign and may have even indirectly inspired last week's murder of Mrs Jo Cox, a local opposition MP and fervent migration defender.

2016 June 21, Jonathan Eyal, “Brexiter's call for amnesty for illegals seen as a gimmick”, in The Straits Times:


Regrexit

Blend of regret + Brexit, said to have been coined on 24 June 2016 by one Carl Gardner in a Twitter post (see quotations) following the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum on 23 June 2016.

Labour has one chance now. To emerge within weeks as Britain's centrist "Regrexit Unionist" party. If it did that, even I might forgive it.

2016 June 24, Carl Gardner (@carlgardner), Twitter, archived from the original on 2016-11-02:

There are leave voters who confessed to reporters that they never thought their side would actually win, that their vote had only ever been intended as a protest, presumed to be safe because surely everyone else would vote the other way. […] A Twitter user came up with a new coinage for this rapid form of buyer's remorse: Regrexit. […] When some of those leave voters see that Brexit has not brought back the good jobs of old, that housing is still in desperately short supply and that a migrant family still lives round the corner, the Regrexit sentiment will grow.

2016 June 24, Jonathan Freedland, “For the 48%, this was a day of despair: Soon we will become little Britain. The signs of Regrexit are cold comfort for those of us who voted to remain.”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-09-13, subtitle:

From reports, the UK is moving rapidly from Brexit to Regrexit.

2016 June 26, Abhidevananda <abhide...@sarkarverse.org>, “Re: Brexit”, in uk.philosophy.humanism (Usenet), message-ID <t9ybz.34812$LR2.4319@fx26.fr7>:

In the spirit of Brexit, these attitudes even have their own media-friendly nickname: Bregret or Regrexit.

2016 June 27, Adam Taylor, “Bregret? Regrexit? Don't bet on it.”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2016-10-06:

There were many reasons for the Leave vote, and Regrexit is now gaining momentum.

2016 June 29, Anna Wallis, “Brexit lessons here”, in Wanganui Chronicle:

Within a few days, petitions to re-do the vote emerged with more than four million signatures, known as 'Regrexit.'

2017, Markus M.L. Crepaz, European Democracies, Routledge, →ISBN:

There's a chance, especially with the 'Regrexit' sentiment surfacing, that the U.K. will still be part of the EU in two years.

2018, Victor O. Okocha, Leadership and Development Crises in Africa: A New Approach to an Old Challenge, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 234:

(UK politics) A feeling of regret about Brexit taking place, or about having voted for it.


November Criminals

(historical, derogatory, among German nationalists) The German government leaders who signed the Armistice of 11 November 1918.


saffron terror

From the symbolic use of the saffron colour by Hindu nationalist organisations.

Acts of terrorism motivated by Hindu nationalism.


Nkrumaism

A Pan-African socialist political ideology based on the thinking and writing of Kwame Nkrumah, former president of Ghana.


Remoaner

2023 September 11, David Maddox, “Remoaner group who handed out EU flags at BBC Proms named and shamed after funding plea”, in Daily Express:

For others, it’s the Blob or the “remoaner elite”, made up of the civil service, the BBC, the universities, the unions: anyone who, along with desperate refugees in small boats, can be blamed for standing between Britain and the promised Brexit nirvana.

2023 May 19, Jonathan Freedland, “They’re openly saying it: Brexit has failed. But what comes next may be very dark indeed”, in The Guardian:

Today, the Sun launches Remoaner Watch – starting with leading figures from the world of politics and the media (plus the entire BBC) for whom a love of all things EU still burns bright.

2022 June 18, Grant Rollings, “The Sun’s Remoaner Watch is on the lookout for evidence of Remoanery”, in The Sun:

(UK politics, derogatory) A Remainer; one who complains about or rejects the outcome of the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union.


Remainer

During the years following the EU referendum, Brexiters and Remainers both claimed him as their own.

2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 39:

(UK politics) Someone who supports the United Kingdom remaining within the European Union.


hard Brexit

Without question now, Britain is not ready for the negotiations, having spent the past year largely avoiding a real debate on the topic, other than a vague argument over the merits of a “hard Brexit” (as a clean break from the European Union is known), versus a “soft Brexit,” which would require more compromise.

2017 June 9, Steven Erlanger, Katrin Benhold, Stephen Castle, “The British Election That Somehow Made Brexit Even Harder”, in The New York Times:

Büsingen was mentioned amid talk of Britain following the example of Switzerland: outside the EU but with access to its single market through bilateral agreements that accept, among other things, freedom of movement for EU citizens. That all ended abruptly when British prime minister Theresa May steered the UK towards a hard Brexit, promising to prune back EU ties to a minimum to ensure maximum domestic control over borders.

2017 June 23, Derek Scally, “What can the North learn from a small German-Swiss town?”, in The Irish Times:

The hard Brexit case that leaving the customs union need not harm British industry, agriculture, distribution and commerce has been overwhelmingly dismissed by all these areas of the economy.

2019 March 11, Simon Jenkins, “If May loses Tuesday’s Brexit vote, she must back a customs union or go”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) The withdrawal of the United Kingdom both from the European Union and from European institutions (e.g. the European single market or the European Union Customs Union).


soft Brexit

The debate over the right terms and conditions for Britain’s departure from the European Union is often simplified into two clashing concepts: a soft Brexit and a hard one. The first tends to be favoured by those who voted Remain in the 2016 referendum, the second by those who voted Leave. Yet what is the real, practical difference between the two? And can bits of both be combined to some degree?

2018 June 25, J. P., “How a soft Brexit differs from a hard one”, in The Economist:

Labour's vision for a soft Brexit would have seen Britain remain closely aligned with the EU customs, tariff and regulatory regimes and the continent's single market. Such a relationship would have meant that Britain would continue to allow EU migrants to live and work in the United Kingdom, while withdrawing from the EU legislature.

2019 February 28, William Booth, Karla Adam, “UK Parliament votes down Labour's bid for a soft Brexit”, in New Zealand Herald:

(UK politics) The (hypothetical) withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union while generally remaining in European institutions (e.g. the European single market or customs union).


Bremainer

2016 August 2, Hayley Kirton, “Bremainer and Brexiteer team up to bolster British businesses”, in City A.M.:

The only question I am hearing wherever I go at the moment – apart from, ‘Have you been sacked from Top Gear yet for only getting nine million viewers a week?’ – is, are you a Brexiteer or a Bremainer? Are you in or out?

2016 June 11, Chris Evans, “BMW’s new mini monster is here. Get set for some... M-azing pace!”, in The Daily Mail:

(UK politics) Someone in favour of Britain remaining within the European Union.


red-green-brown alliance

en-noun

red-green-brown alliance (plural red-green-brown alliances)

From the colours used by each faction listed in the term. Red is for leftists, green is for Islamists, and brown (as in brownshirts) is for ultranationalists.

(politics) An alliance of leftists, Islamists, and ultranationalists.


Brexodus

2016 June 29, Bloomberg, “Vodafone mulls London HQ move in Brexodus”, in Irish TImes:

2016 July 2, Márton Hoványi, Ádám Sághy, “Brexit or Brexodus. The theological evaluation of the Brexit”, in Shekinah Research Institute for Theology - Kötőszó, archived from the original on 2021-01-31:

Brexodus fears: Banks may leave London after the vote, it was claimed

2016 October 11, Nicholas Cecil, Pippa Crerar, “Fears grow of bank Brexodus from the City as pound slumps”, in Evening Standard:

So the Brexodus will also include skilled locals, who know they too are better off working in an environment that provides them with opportunities rather than constraints.

2016 November 10, Timothy Devinney, “Brexodus: the world’s highly skilled have options other than the UK”, in TES:

2017 August 7, Lucy McNulty, “City of London urges government to stop Brexodus”, in Financial Times:

(UK politics) The departure of people or companies from the UK due to Brexit.


Brexshit

Blend of Brexit + shit, perhaps in reference to bullshit (“statements that are false or exaggerated to impress or cheat the listener”).

My modest proposal is to construct a set of your own Brexshit bingo cards.

2016 June 16, AFP, “How to call bullshit on EU referendum campaign claims”, in New Statesman:

Demonstrators hold a banner reading "This is Brexshit" during a protest near Britain's embassy in Berlin on July 2, 2016.

2016 July 2, AFP, “Anti-Brexit protesters march in London”, in Express Tribune:

(UK politics, derogatory, vulgar) Brexit.


Eurasianism

neo-Eurasianism

specifically the ideology by Aleksandr Dugin and the like

Ruscism

a movement supporting Vladimir Putin and militarism

(politics) A far-right movement and its ideology promoted by Alexandr Dugin, often seen as a Russian kind of fascism


Svecoman

(historical) A member of a Swedish nationalist movement that arose in the Grand Duchy of Finland at the end of the 19th century, chiefly as a reaction to the demands for increased use of Finnish vigorously presented by the Fennoman movement.


white nationalism

(politics) The political ideology that white people (Europeans) are a distinct race and should form an ethnic state.


Porki

Blend of pork + Paki, by surface analysis, pork + -i.

(derogatory, offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A Pakistani.


sarkari

Borrowed from Hindi सरकारी (sarkārī). The usage of "sarkari" as a negative term originated from Khalistani supporters who condemned Sikhs who supported the government of India.

sarkari Musalman

a Muslim who favours BJP policies instead of Muslim activism

(India, Islam, slang) Supporting the government of India, pro-establishment; specifically, the BJP and Hindutva, against Indian Muslim interests.


sickular

en-adj

sickular (comparative more sickular, superlative most sickular)

more sickular (comparative)
most sickular (superlative)

'Sickular bigscreen operator!' screamed another, shaking his fist in the direction of the Congress dugout. Modi moved.

(India, derogatory, slang) Leftist; in Indian politics, a supposed secularist partaking in tokenism, or opposed to Hindu nationalism.


sickular

(India, derogatory, slang, politics) A leftist; in Indian politics, a secularist, either partaking in tokenism, or opposed to Hindu nationalism.


bhakt

kattar

towards strict and overtly-devout Hindus

andh bhakt

blind devotee; Indian politics; referring to a fervent supporter

Ram bhakt

devotee of Rama; politics; a worshipper of Rama or a fervent supporter of Hindutva

In commenting on these stories, Ganga Giri selects the virtues of suffering and sacrifice exhibited variously by the male bhakts as characteristic of renunciant bhakti.

2014, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli, Real Sadhus Sing to God: Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan, page 83:

Although Sankardeb himself may have had disciples in his close circle from different religions and castes, in Majuli the interpretation has become rigid — none of them allow Scheduled Caste or tribal people to become bhakts and live in the […]

2000, Sumita Ghose, Sanjoy's Assam: Diaries and Writings of Sanjoy Ghose:

In the case of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, everything is His energy. So wherever the bhakta goes or whatever he perceives throughout the universe, he is reminded of the Lord. Moreover, this recognition is not merely an intellectual habit but a total, overpowering state of love.

1991, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, chapter 4, in Nārada-bhakti-sūtra, The Secrets of Transcendental Love:

(Hinduism) Someone who practises bhakti; a person who is devoted to God; a devotee; a worshipper; a religious disciple.

(derogatory, slang, religious slur) A devout Hindu.

Even if Modi didn't look closely at his tweets, his team and followers certainly did. If the Gandhi family had their political chamchas, Modi had his 'Internet Hindus' (or bhakts, as I called them).

2015, Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India:

For example, I've met Modi myself and interviewed him twice. But these Modi bhakts might pray to him every morning, yet they'll never enjoy such access.

2016, Sonali Acharjee, Look Up: Social Media and the Addiction No One Is Talking About:

Our nation is divided into Modi Bhakts and Aaptards (#SorryCongress). This is why elections are also fought on the appeal of individuals rather than on the actions of the parties (#PaanchSaalKejriwal #AbkiBaarModiSarkar).

2017, Revant Himatsingka, Selfienomics: A Seriously Funny Guide to Living the Good Life:

(India, derogatory, politics, slang) An ardent right-wing Hindu nationalist netizen.

(India, derogatory, politics, slang) An ardent supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party or its leader Narendra Modi.


Little Russianness

An identity or attitude associated with Little Russia, favouring Russian culture and practices over Ukrainian ones.


integralism

en-noun

integralism (countable and uncountable, plural integralisms)

A movement within Roman Catholicism, holding that political rule must not be separated from religious issues.


BJP

Bharatiya Janata Party
w:Bharatiya Janata Party

(Indian politics) Initialism of Bharatiya Janata Party, a major political party.


Love Jihad

(India) An alleged campaign by which Muslim men target women of non-Muslim communities for conversion to Islam by feigning romantic love.

land jihad

alleged purchase of land owned by Hindus


Brexity

en-adj

Brexity (comparative more Brexity, superlative most Brexity)

more Brexity (comparative)
most Brexity (superlative)

It feels a bit Brexity: a pained cry from the past, “We want our Shakespearean canon back!”

2016 October 26, David Greig, “Emma Rice’s exit from Shakespeare’s Globe feels a bit Brexity”, in New Statesman:

It is a society that has evolved separately from Britain’s mainland and its Anglican beliefs, but it looks like an alternative reality of fiercely insular, irrational England. Is there anything more Brexity than this?

2018 June 7, Peter Bradshaw, “The scariest horror films ever – ranked!”, in The Guardian:

She doesn't admit that I'm right — she has been distracted by a woman she has seen out of the window, limping out from a Brexity pub called The Dame's Garter with a vape dangling from her puckered lips […]

(UK, informal) Characteristic of Brexit, or the attitudes thought to underlie it; parochial, jingoistic.


gastronationalism

Coined in 2010 by Michaela DeSoucey, from gastro- + nationalism

The assertion of cultural ownership of types of food by a particular nation.


swayamsevak

From Hindi स्वयंसेवक (svayansevak), from Sanskrit स्वयम् (svayam, “self”) and सेवक (sevaka, “servant”).

(India, politics) A member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, an Indian nationalist paramilitary volunteer organization.


cow belt

From the widespread practices venerating cattle in that region in northern India. Influenced by the English term Bible Belt.

(India) A rural region of Northern India, extending over the BIMARU states.


Slavophilism

(more specifically) ideological commitment to maintaining traditional Slavic culture and resisting non-Slavic influences (as first formulated in 19th-century imperial Russia).


Slavophilia

An ideological commitment to maintaining traditional Slavic culture and values and resisting non-Slavic influences (as first formulated in 19th-century imperial Russia).


Chequers agreement

Named after Chequers, the country house of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, where the white paper was formulated.

(informal) A white paper published in July 2018 outlining the relationship the UK was seeking with the European Union after Brexit.


Chequers plan

A letter to the Sunday Telegraph signed by more than 30 Tory association chairmen complaining that the prime minister’s Chequers plan “does not deliver the Brexit that we, as Conservatives, promised”.

2018 September 30, Matthew d'Ancona, “The Tories are a party in crisis, their identity in desperate shape”, in The Guardian:

Chequers agreement
Chequers agreement#English


Katipunan

(historical) The Filipino revolutionary secret organization led by Andres Bonifacio, whose discovery led to the Philippine Revolution in order to gain independence from the Spanish Empire.


Oranje, Blanje, Blou

When we went to a rugby game in Cape Town, we saw some Springbok supporters waving the Oranje, Blanje, Blou flag.

A former national flag of South Africa, used from 1928 to 1994, during the apartheid era.


Hinduphobic

Hinduphobic (comparative more Hinduphobic, superlative most Hinduphobic)

more Hinduphobic (comparative)
most Hinduphobic (superlative)

(India, politics) Opposed to Hindutva or Hindu nationalism.


Erdoğanism

The political ideology of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.


Three Principles of the People

Calque of Chinese 三民主義／三民主义 (sānmínzhǔyì)

cal

(historical) The political philosophy espoused by Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese Nationalist Party.


Brexit Party

(UK politics) A British single-issue trans-European political party of the European Parliament dedicated to extracting Great Britain from the European Union


katwa

Borrowed from Hindi कटवा (kaṭvā), derived from Hindi काटना (kāṭnā, “to cut”), referring to the Muslim practice of circumcision.

(India, offensive, derogatory, religious slur) a Muslim man.

sulla

other insulting terms directed at Indian or Pakistani Muslims


Backstop

(UK) A proposed seamless border between Ireland and Northern Ireland in the event of Brexit.


femonationalism

en-noun

femonationalism (usually uncountable, plural femonationalisms)

Coined by Sara R. Farris. Blend of feminism + nationalism, with the "o" patterned after homonationalism.

In similar ways, femonationalism describes the attempts of European right-wing parties, among others, to co-opt feminist ideals into anti-immigrant and anti-Islam campaigns.

2012, Sara R. Farris, "Femonationalism and the 'Regular' Army of Labor Called Migrant Women", History of the Present, Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2012, page 187

Femonationalism thus operates from a place of cynicism, presenting itself as liberating Muslim women while doing the exact opposite.

2017, Edna Bonhomme, "The Disturbing Rise of ‘Femonationalism", The Nation, 7 May 2019

The case of Switzerland is of particular interest to furthering the understanding of femonationalism, we argue, because contrary to the case studies presented by these other authors, Switzerland was never a colonial state.

2020 July, Dina Bader, Véronique Mottier, “Femonationalism and populist politics: The case of the Swiss ban on female genital mutilation”, in Nations and Nationalism, volume 26, number 3:

(neologism) The association of a nationalist ideology with feminism, especially when having xenophobic motivations.


zigger

Ukraine breaking away from Russia's sphere of influence and joining Europe and the West is based. Russia is a zigger shithole.

2023 June 14, Anglospherist 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇫🇰🇮🇪🇮🇲🇬🇮, Twitter:

Pakis may be annoying, but at least they're Muslim and actually like Turkey. Ziggers move there and still paint Zs on their cars.

It's so insane how ziggers will completely deny anything bad about Russians.

2023 June 24, Emirhan Niyazi Ozanich, Twitter:

Fuck me, there's actually more ziggers on telegram than there are here on twitter 😒.

2023 June 29, Zelenskyy (now banned), Twitter:

Why are they dancing?!?!? Don't they know ziggers are complaining and posting Strelkovisms on twitter!?!?!

2023 July 15, Л?берал_𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 🧠🎮, Twitter:

(derogatory, vulgar, offensive, neologism, politics) Someone who supports Kremlin doctrine and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.


Article 50

Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty sets out how an EU country might voluntarily leave the union. The wording is vague, almost as if the drafters thought it unlikely it would ever come into play.

2016 June 25, Jennifer Rankin, Julian Borger, Mark Rice-Oxley, “What is article 50 and why is it so central to the Brexit debate?”, in The Guardian:

The Scottish cross-bench peer who wrote Article 50 - the procedure by which the UK would leave the EU - believed it was "not irrevocable". In a BBC interview, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard said the UK could choose to stay in the EU even after exit negotiations had begun.

2016 November 3, Glenn Campbell, “Article 50 author Lord Kerr says Brexit not inevitable”, in BBC News:

Today, therefore, I am writing to give effect to the democratic decision of the people of the United Kingdom. I hereby notify the European Council in accordance with Article 50 (2) of the Treaty on European Union of the United Kingdom’s intention to withdraw from the European Union.

2017 March 29, Theresa May, Theresa May’s Letter Invoking Article 50:

If the Liberal Democrats were to secure a majority in December, they would revoke Article 50, cancelling Brexit.

2019 November 24, Stephen Wynn-Davies, “Hastings and Rye candidates outline their stances on Brexit”, in The Hastings Observer:

(European politics) Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon which holds the EU's exit clause, allowing and setting out rules for countries leaving the European Union.


divorce bill

In part, this is because it is impossible to know what the UK’s divorce bill will be until the EU knows what the relationship looks likes after 2019: if the UK seeks to stay as a paying member within some programmes, for example, that would reduce the bill.

2017 June 20, Daniel Boffey, “Brexit divorce bill: what is it and how does it affect talks?”, in The Guardian:

Theresa May has told MPs the UK could withhold payment of its £39bn Brexit "divorce bill" if a deal is not reached with Brussels.

2018 September 13, Alec McGuinness, “Theresa May says UK might not pay Brexit 'divorce bill' in 'no-deal' scenario”, in Sky News:

The Brexit party revealed plans today to slash the foreign aid budget and withhold the £39billion so-called 'divorce bill' from the EU if it takes power.

2019 November 1, David Wilcock, “Cut the foreign aid budget and don't give Brussels a penny of the £39billion 'divorce bill' - the Brexit Party reveals its general election manifesto”, in The Daily Mail:

The UK's Brexit divorce bill could soar to £42.5 billion after the Treasury increased its estimate of the payments owed to the European Union by more than £5 billion.

2022 July 21, Sam Blewett, “Brexit Divorce Bill Could Soar to £42.5 Billion as Treasury Boosts Estimate”, in Bloomberg:

(UK politics) The payment to be given to the EU on the UK's exit of the European Union, estimated at around £39bn.