"Repugnican" = repugnant Republican

[victor steinbok]

This is a fairly common term on DailyKos and in TPM comments. To make
it even more interesting, "repugs" is even more common--235K raw ghits
vs. 16.2K raw for "repugnican".

The are several mentions (and entries) for repug(s) on UD, the
earliest appearing in a 2003 entry for "Frenchie":

> A pathetic attempt at insult used by _Repugs_.

It gets better. Here's the list of all the UD "repug-" entires
(judiciously culled of IMO irrelevant terms):

Repug
Repugged
Repuglican
repuglican't
repugly
Repugnican
Repugnicant
Rebugnicunt
Repugnivisionist
repugosphere
Repugs

Then it goes on to variation of Repuke (and is preceded by variations
of Repub-, starting with my personal favorite, Repube).

VS-)

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> ... Repugnican ...
>
> Barry Popik investigated this term in a 2009 post. He found it "cited
> in print from November 1994".
>
> http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/repugnican_republican_party_nickname/
>

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