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trumpery
noun trum·pery ˈtrəm-p(ə rē
Definition of trumpery
1 a : worthless nonsense
b : trivial or useless articles : junk
a wagon loaded with household trumpery Washington Irving
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trumpery
Cha
(297,574 posts)Mahalo, Javaman
bdamomma
(63,919 posts)starting his own stupid language. I would just love to equate the word "fake" as to him. Fake=Trump.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)underpants
(182,874 posts)FSogol
(45,524 posts)noun
unpunctuated: trompe loeil; noun: trompe l'il; noun: trompe l'oeil; plural noun: trompe l'oeils
visual illusion in art, especially as used to trick the eye into perceiving a painted detail as a three-dimensional object.
a painting or design intended to create the illusion of a three-dimensional object.
plural noun: trompe l'ils
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,034 posts)lastlib
(23,275 posts)euphemism for taking a crap..... In my work, I have seen several portable toilets with "Trump Dump" graffiti above the seat.
(I work around a lot of construction crews that are predominantly Hispanic)
niyad
(113,546 posts)the others.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)toddwv
(2,830 posts)oasis
(49,401 posts)That'd be him alright.
for finding this...it is TOO perfect and I'm gonna use it often! Too bad his followers won't even understand it. What's that line? "Stupid is as stupid does, and you can't fix stupid"
JDC
(10,132 posts)Hekate
(90,779 posts)...just waiting for enough people to open up their dictionaries.
I can't be the only one who spent part of my youth reading 17th - 19th century English novels in addition to 20th century sci fi.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)When Bloom County pointed out that "Trump" means "fart" in England.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027076931
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)He is such a flibbertigibbet.
Bucky
(54,053 posts)If you missed it the first few times that it got circulated, it could be that you were distracted by massive amounts of idiocy in the news. Don't ask me what the source of that was.
Ohiya
(2,239 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,894 posts)Decades even.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)trumpery |ˈtrəmp(ə rē| archaic
noun (pl. trumperies)
attractive articles of little value or use.
practices or beliefs that are superficially or visually appealing but have little real value or worth.
adjective
showy but worthless: trumpery jewelry.
delusive or shallow: that trumpery hope which lets us dupe ourselves.
ORIGIN
late Middle English (denoting trickery): from Old French tromperie, from tromper deceive.
Used in a sentence - The dotard live and actions could be described in one word, trumpery.
Darwin used the word in a letter.
https://themacropod.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/a-trumpery-affair/
Nitram
(22,868 posts)An excellent coincidence.