Dot’s found a funny thing.
Here’s a funny thing. The New Oxford American Dictionary (or Noad, for short) has nominated teabagger as the runner-up for ‘word of the year’. The winning word was unfriend, a piece of jargon used by people who drop so-called friends from popular networking sites such as Facebook. As for teabagger, it is said to refer to someone protesting at ‘President Obama’s tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as “Tea Party” protests (in allusion to the Boston Tea Party of 1773)’.
In that case, one might think it would be called tea-partying. Perhaps, one might surmise, teabagging had been influenced by sand-bagging, as an aggressive act (just as Lady Thatcher’s handbagging was). There is evidence, however, that the term teabagger was foisted on the Tea Party protesters by political opponents, especially radio broadcasters, who did so with knowing reference to an obscene act.
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