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Brexitish

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Etymology

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From Brexit +‎ -ish.

Adjective

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Brexitish (comparative more Brexitish, superlative most Brexitish)

  1. (UK, informal) Resembling or characteristic of Brexit, or the attitudes thought to underlie it.
    Synonym: Brexity
    • 2017 May 1, Van Badham, “Worker exploitation: without an international minimum wage, we're all worth 10 bucks”, in The Guardian[1]:
      The Brexitish notion that nation states can just withdraw from the rest of the world and wall in their own production is a cultural fantasy as delusional as any who punch “Australia first!”, “America first!”, “Britain first!” statements into the keypad of a Chinese-assembled mobile phone.