Grauniad

//ˈɡɹɔːniæd// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Guardian, a British daily national newspaper. UK, humorous

    "Good old Grauniad."

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"Stop along the road for papers; scan headlines, make sure that no late-breaking story displaced the Vanguard piece and that it's intact (ninety-five percent – a satisfyingly high score), check out Doonesbury in the Grauniad, then away."

Etymology

Deliberate misspelling of Guardian, coined by the UK satirical magazine Private Eye, implying that the Guardian newspaper was prone to typographical errors.

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