milifandom
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An Internet-based youth movement in support of Ed Miliband, then leader of the British Labour Party.
British usage; Colloquial; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Abby says the Milifandom, which started last week, is “a movement against the distorted media portrayal of Ed”."
- "The student, who describes the 'Milifandom' as 'a movement against the distorted media portrayal of Ed', started the unlikely cult-following of Miliband in the run-up to the May election."
- "That, Ed Miliband told the Evening Standard, was his wife Justine's reaction to the news that her husband had a fandom. Milifandom."
- "So I jokingly suggested to an excolleague at BuzzFeed via Twitter that this could be her next piece, since she'd been the first to uncover the 'Milifandom' (the band of teenage girls who had developed swooning, semiironic crushes on Labour leader Ed Miliband during the 2015 eelection campaign)."
- "A teenager has taken Milifandom to a whole new level by getting Ed Miliband's face tattooed on her thigh."
- "And after Milifandom signally failed to shift votes in places like Nuneaton, the PM told last year’s post-election party conference ‘Britain and Twitter are not the same thing’."
Etymology
Usage
- British usage
- Colloquial
- Uncountable