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Wagatha Christie

Wagatha Christie proper noun: a dispute between footballers' wives Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney regarding the leaking of posts from a private social media account, which culminated in a 2022 libel case in the English High Court, Vardy v Rooney.

Proper noun

Wagatha Christie

  1. (attributive, humorous, often, slang) A dispute between footballers' wives Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney regarding the leaking of posts from a private social media account, which culminated in a 2022 libel case in the English High Court, Vardy v Rooney.
    • The “Wagatha Christie” libel battle kept headline writers and lovers of soap opera happy for months.2022, Kate Moore, Here We Go Again...: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph (page vii)
    • While I was sitting carefully crafting witty Wagatha Christie tweets, Dougie was doing a deal that ensured he could retire before he hit forty.2023, Portia MacIntosh, Better Off Wed

Origin of Wagatha Christie

Blend of WAG (“wife or girlfriend”) + Agatha Christie (“a whodunnit fiction writer”).

Questions about Wagatha Christie

What does Wagatha Christie mean?
Wagatha Christie means a dispute between footballers' wives Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney regarding the leaking of posts from a private social media account, which culminated in a 2022 libel case in the English High Court, Vardy v Rooney.
What part of speech is Wagatha Christie?
Wagatha Christie is a proper noun.

Words near Wagatha Christie in the dictionary

  1. Wagar
  2. Wagars
  3. wagashi
  4. wagasi
  5. Wagasky
  6. Wagatha Christie
  7. wagati
  8. Wagaun
  9. Wagaung
  10. Wagaya
  11. Wagdi

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