GUBU
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English
Etymology
An acronym for grotesque, unprecedented, bizarre, unbelievable, all words used by Taoiseach Charles Haughey to describe the discovery of a murderer as a guest in the house of Patrick Connolly, Attorney General of Ireland in 1982.
Noun
GUBU (plural GUBUs)
- (Ireland, politics) A political scandal.
- 1989, Fortnight:
- The problem for the taoiseach is that he is increasingly being called on to defend his administration as the GUBUs loom before it.
- 2006, Gerry O'Carroll, The Sheriff: A Detective's Story, Mainstream Publishing Company:
- In one handwritten memo, the writer refers to the Garda report in a scathing and sarcastic manner and calls it 'a hysterical attempt to cover up a GUBU'.
- 2013, John Horgan, Great Irish Reportage, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
- The GUBU had been a GUBU alright, no doubt about that, but Mr Haughey was there and the GUBU was taken care of […]