burnhamism
/ˈbɜː(ɹ)nəmɪzəm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The philosophy and politics espoused by the British politician Andy Burnham (born 1970).
British usage; Uncountable
noun
The philosophy and politics espoused by the Guyanese politician Forbes Burnham (1923–1985).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Instinctive, energetic, genuinely populist, and with a natural understanding of the northern communities that Labour desperately needs to recapture en masse: what might be called “Burnhamism” should play a central role in the party’s campaign to reinvent and revive itself in the coming years."
- "The new Burnhamism, with all its frustration at fiscal rules and its earthy northern flavour, is an affront to what many of these MPs imagine election-winning Labour politics to be."
- "Without addressing these issues head-on, it is hard to see how Burnhamism survives contact with economic reality, and the bond market."
- "That is why the vote next week is a test of Burnhamism – and one that Labour cannot afford to fail. It asks whether a more rooted, regional, public-service politics can reach people whose lives are precarious but who do not necessarily think of themselves as “workers” in the old Labour sense."
- "Mr Burnham’s coup was plotted slowly, but executed quickly. From the moment he won the Makerfield by-election, he was all but guaranteed to end up in Number 10. Yet he is still vague on many of the big questions facing Britain. That mismatch offers political entrepreneurs a chance to try to shape the wet clay of Burnhamism around their own priorities."
- "Gora Singh and others wanted a recognition of the vitality of the uniquely Guyanised forms of music, dance, both North Indian and Tamil (Madrassi). Virtually all this disappeared from Guyana in the 1980s when huge numbers of Indo-Guyanese fled to North America to escape the ravages of Burnhamism."
Etymology
Etymology tree English Burnham Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Burnhamism From Burnham + -ism.
Usage
- British usage
- Uncountable