It's official...the New Oxford American Dictionary nominated the term "teabagger" for word of the year. In introducing the word, Oxford said,
"It should be noted that the term "teabagger" appears on Oxford's list because of the usage cited on that list, not because of any other meaning. Citations for the political sense were found in a number of legitimate sources throughout the year. As a reference to members of the currently active Tea Party, the word has been used in speech and print by both liberals and conservatives. In this context, the term "teabagger" is a reasonably conceived informal name for an affiliate of the Tea Party, and as a word in the news, it earned a mention for the year 2009.
Having deliberated carefully over the word-usage evidence, Oxford's lexicographers are confident in their judgment that "teabagger" the political term stands distinctly apart from "teabagger" the vulgar term."
Lot's of other great words were nominated this year like "tramp stamp" and "birther". Unfortunately for us, Oxford ended up naming the boring term "unfriend" as word of the year, but there is a certain amount of satisfaction that a term that so enrages the teabaggers is now legitimate.
Of course, they started it:
Whoever said that wordsmithing isn't fun?
So if I "unfriend" someone because they are a "teabagger" or a "birther" with a "tramp stamp" do I get a prize from the Oxford folks?
What a bunch of WANKERS they all are.
Would that make me a political wanker?
Does a blogger get bonus points for being a teabagger in both uses of the word?
Does the dictionary indicate that it is used as a term of derision?
Except that the baggers are too dense to realize that so they wear their badge of ignorance with pride.
I can think of one person whose head will explode.