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yardfowlism

yardfowlism noun: political sycophancy in return for favors.

Noun

yardfowlism (uncountable)

  1. (Barbados) Political sycophancy in return for favors.
    • As if it were not enough, one notes too that management analysis and technique continue to face a hard and relentless time from pork-barrel aims, yardfowlism, nepotism, favouritism, cronyism, apple-polishing, logrolling, featherbedding empire-building and other social-human phenomena.1988, Bulletin of Eastern Caribbean Affairs, volume 14, page 35
    • I need not remind you that, in making this commitment, the National Democratic Party has resolved to set its face against that mode of unsavoury and unprincipled party oriented behaviour which Barbadians so aptly describe as 'yardfowlism', a cancerous condition which has paralysed other political...1990, The House of Assembly Debates, Barbados Legislature House of Assembly, page 6026

Origin of yardfowlism

From yardfowl + -ism.

Questions about yardfowlism

What does yardfowlism mean?
Yardfowlism means political sycophancy in return for favors.
What part of speech is yardfowlism?
Yardfowlism is a noun.

Words near yardfowlism in the dictionary

  1. yardens
  2. yarder
  3. yarders
  4. Yardes
  5. yardfowl
  6. yardfowlism
  7. yardfowls
  8. yardful
  9. yardfuls
  10. yardgarita
  11. yardgaritas

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