Regrexit

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English

Etymology

Blend of regret +‎ Brexit, said to have been coined on 24 June 2016 by one Carl Gardner in a Twitter post (see quotations) following the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum on 23 June 2016.

Noun

Regrexit (uncountable)

  1. (UK politics) A feeling of regret about Brexit taking place, or about having voted for it.
    • 2016 June 24, Carl Gardner (@carlgardner), Twitter, archived from the original on 2 November 2016:
      Labour has one chance now. To emerge within weeks as Britain's centrist "Regrexit Unionist" party. If it did that, even I might forgive it.
    • 2016 June 24, Jonathan Freedland, “For the 48%, this was a day of despair: Soon we will become little Britain. The signs of Regrexit are cold comfort for those of us who voted to remain.”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 13 September 2016, subtitle:
      There are leave voters who confessed to reporters that they never thought their side would actually win, that their vote had only ever been intended as a protest, presumed to be safe because surely everyone else would vote the other way. [] A Twitter user came up with a new coinage for this rapid form of buyer's remorse: Regrexit. [] When some of those leave voters see that Brexit has not brought back the good jobs of old, that housing is still in desperately short supply and that a migrant family still lives round the corner, the Regrexit sentiment will grow.
    • 2016 June 26, Abhidevananda <[email protected]>, “Re: Brexit”, in uk.philosophy.humanism (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
      From reports, the UK is moving rapidly from Brexit to Regrexit.
    • 2016 June 27, Adam Taylor, “Bregret? Regrexit? Don't bet on it.”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 6 October 2016:
      In the spirit of Brexit, these attitudes even have their own media-friendly nickname: Bregret or Regrexit.
    • 2016 June 29, Anna Wallis, “Brexit lessons here”, in Wanganui Chronicle:
      There were many reasons for the Leave vote, and Regrexit is now gaining momentum.
    • 2017, Markus M.L. Crepaz, European Democracies, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Within a few days, petitions to re-do the vote emerged with more than four million signatures, known as 'Regrexit.'
    • 2018, Victor O. Okocha, Leadership and Development Crises in Africa: A New Approach to an Old Challenge, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 234:
      There's a chance, especially with the 'Regrexit' sentiment surfacing, that the U.K. will still be part of the EU in two years.

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