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Bregret

Bregret noun: regret about Brexit (or voting in favour of Brexit).

Noun

Bregret (countable and uncountable, plural Bregrets)

  1. (neologism) Regret about Brexit (or voting in favour of Brexit).
    • The anxiety – dubbed “Bregret” – emerged as the value of the pound tumbled and markets crashed, while [some felt] betrayed by Nigel Farage’s admission that a Vote Leave poster pledging to spend millions of pounds supposedly given to the EU on the NHS was a “mistake”.2016 June 25, Lizzie Dearden, “Anger over 'Bregret' as Leave voters say they thought UK would stay in EU”, in The Independent
    • Yet polling shows no ‘Bregret’ – a YouGov survey earlier this week showed 52% of voters think leaving was right and 48% wrong, mirroring the referendum result.2016 August 10, Matthew Holehouse, “Is the ignorant Leave voter just a comforting myth?”, in The Telegraph

Examples of Bregret in a sentence

  • Brexit may be in the history books, but “Bregret,” as the British newspapers have called it, is back in the air.2022 November 22, Mark Landler, “Buffeted by Economic Woes, U.K. Starts to Look at Brexit With ‘Bregret’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
  • A creeping sense of Bregret is taking hold in Britain.2022 December 23, Matthew Goodwin, “Brexit regrets? Britain has a few”, in The Spectator:
  • Three years on from Brexit, all UK voters are left with is a bitter taste of Bregret [title]2023 January 31, Polly Toynbee, “Three years on from Brexit, all UK voters are left with is a bitter taste of Bregret”, in The Guardian...

Forms of Bregret

pluralBregrets

Origin of Bregret

Blend of Brexit + regret.

Questions about Bregret

What does Bregret mean?
Bregret means regret about Brexit (or voting in favour of Brexit).
How do you use Bregret in a sentence?
Brexit may be in the history books, but “Bregret,” as the British newspapers have called it, is back in the air.
What part of speech is Bregret?
Bregret is a noun.
What is the plural of Bregret?
The plural of Bregret is Bregrets.

Words near Bregret in the dictionary

  1. Bregmans
  2. bregmas
  3. bregmata
  4. bregmatic
  5. bregmoid
  6. Bregret
  7. breh
  8. Brehm
  9. Brehm's ground parrot
  10. Brehm's ground parrots
  11. Brehm's tiger parrot

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