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Normal Island

Normal Island proper noun: great Britain.

Proper noun

Normal Island

  1. (Internet, UK, derogatory, ironic) Great Britain.
    • The phrase ‘normal island’ has lately become a staple of UK social media discourse; it marks a weary dissent from the sometimes comically jingoist and authoritarian tendencies that animate so much public debate in contemporary Britain.[2021 November 25, Des Fitzgerald, “Normal Island: COVID-19, Border Control, and Viral Nationalism in UK Public Health Discourse”, in Sociological Research Online, volume 28, number 2, →DOI
    • “Just another normal day here on Normal Island,” people observe, nodding at the respectful closure of Legoland or the mournfully closed cycle racks in Norwich.2022 September 15, Marc Burrows, “For those of us who are neither monarchists nor republicans, this is the strangest time”, in New Statesman

Questions about Normal Island

What does Normal Island mean?
Normal Island means great Britain.
What part of speech is Normal Island?
Normal Island is a proper noun.

Words near Normal Island in the dictionary

  1. normal goods
  2. normal histology
  3. normal hydrogen
  4. normal hydrogen electrode
  5. normal hydrogen electrodes
  6. Normal Island
  7. normal lens
  8. normal lenses
  9. normal mode
  10. normal modes
  11. normal pause

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