The left is "All Wee Weed Up" over Sarah Palin's use of the word "refudiate."
"Refudiate" was not made up by Sarah Palin. It was listed in the Urban Dictionary at least as early as June 27:
Urban Dictionary: Refudiate"Wee-weed up," however, had not (to our knowledge) passed human lips until former half-Senator Barack Obama coined the phrase in August of 2009.
27 Jun 2010 ... Portmanteau of "refuse" and "repudiate" to make clear you mean "refuse" as in to refuse to accept; especially : to reject as unauthorized or ...
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Refudiate
Update: Research, research, reasearch! Rich Crowther discovered an instance of the word in use in 1980.
- JP
In which country, Rich? Europe, perhaps? We should ask someone in the White House press corpse... or not.
ReplyDelete- JP
Gov Palin is a leader in many ways .... politically, ethically and certainly cuturally ... a word from the urban dictionary is used, combining elements of meaning from two other words, 'refute' and 'repudiate'.... and the concept of OPPOSE and RESIST is communicated regarding the proposed Ground Zero Mosque ...
ReplyDeleteFDR gave us 'normalcy', BHO gave us 'wee-weed up' and SHP has presented 'refudiate'
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