Gatebagging

[snousle]

I hereby define a new word, "gatebagging", to mean "the creation of false scandals, described by words ending in "-gate", as undertaken by teabaggers".

There are currently no google hits to the word "gatebaggers" and nothing relevant to "gatebagging", so I think this might be entirely original.

I will now stop being a political troglodyte, I promise.

Comments

[bigjohnsf.livejournal.com]

Snouslegate!

[danthered.livejournal.com]

I shall use it as often as possible.

[snousle.livejournal.com]

It would be wonderful if this entered the general vocabulary. I would be so proud to have the first documented use of it!

[danthered.livejournal.com]

Well, it's an elegant and badly-needed word. But so is "Y'all", which is likewise elegant (modulo the apostrophe) and even more badly needed, but still is not considered acceptable in correct speech. OTOH, the self-righteous descriptivist is just as craniorectally impacted as the pious prescriptivist.

[fogbear.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

[thornyc.livejournal.com]

Dern gatebaggers! Get off my laws!

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Gatebagging! Beautiful.

[bluebear2.livejournal.com]

To my ears it sounds like when one is catching gates. Bagging them like bagging a duck, that is, shooting it.
But hey, this whole -gate suffix is trippy. Within a few decades a new language construction has been created while we watched.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

And it's official!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gatebagging