Regrexit

//ɹɪˈɡɹɛɡ.zɪt// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A feeling of regret about Brexit taking place, or about having voted for it. UK, uncountable

    "Labour has one chance now. To emerge within weeks as Britain's centrist "Regrexit Unionist" party. If it did that, even I might forgive it."

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"Labour has one chance now. To emerge within weeks as Britain's centrist "Regrexit Unionist" party. If it did that, even I might forgive it."

Etymology

Blend of regret + Brexit, said to have been coined on 24 June 2016 by one Carl Gardner in a Twitter post (see quotations) following the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum on 23 June 2016.

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