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covfefe

/koʊ.ˈfɛf.i/

covfefe noun: a notional representation of the success, discourse, or ideas of Donald Trump. Also the deliberate misspelling of coffee.

Noun

covfefe (uncountable)

  1. (humorous, rare) A notional representation of the success, discourse, or ideas of Donald Trump.
    • Go ahead, read on to humankind’s honest truth, the coinciding dominion where mansplaining reality confronts feminazi theory. A covfefe amphitheater revealing women not as chattel to be bought and sold.2017, Nathaniel Schmeling, Timing the Infinite, →ISBN
    • THEN A LITTLE SPRINKLE OF COVFEFE DUST. NOT EVEN TRUMP KNOW WHAT IN IT. […] AHHHH… TREMENDOUS TRUMP ALWAYS SAVE THE DAY.2018, Joe Dunn, “The Fecal Fiend”, in A Man-Child Covefe! (The Tremendous Trump), San Antonio, Tex.: Antarctic Press

Also used as

covfefe is also the deliberate misspelling of coffee.

covfefe is also the deliberate misspelling of coverage.

Examples of covfefe in a sentence

  • But he [Mike Pence]’s no Trump in any sense. […] The base respects Pence and his loyal service, but he just does not have the covfefe that the base needs and wants in 2024.2020, Kurt Schlichter, The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and You!), Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, page 240:
  • The noise generated through covfefe becomes a crack in the dominant discourse, a crack that can be deepened through continued work.2020, Simon Lindgren, Data Theory: Interpretive Sociology and Computational Methods, Polity Press, →ISBN:

Origin of covfefe

From a tweet by Donald Trump on May 31, 2017: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”, presumably intending to write coverage. Donald Trump later tweeted: “Who can figure out the true meaning of "covfefe" ??? Enjoy!”. Sense 1 ("deliberate misspelling of coffee") is from the phonetic similarity.

Words formed from covfefe

  • COVFEFE Act
  • Volfefe index

Questions about covfefe

What does covfefe mean?
Covfefe means a notional representation of the success, discourse, or ideas of Donald Trump.
How do you use covfefe in a sentence?
But he [Mike Pence]’s no Trump in any sense. […] The base respects Pence and his loyal service, but he just does not have the covfefe that the base needs and wants in 2024.
What part of speech is covfefe?
Covfefe is a noun.
How do you pronounce covfefe?
Covfefe is pronounced /koʊ.ˈfɛf.i/.

Words near covfefe in the dictionary

  1. covets
  2. covey
  3. coveyed
  4. coveying
  5. coveys
  6. covfefe
  7. Covian
  8. Covians
  9. covid
  10. covid cut
  11. covid cuts

Source and license

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