Dumbya
English
Etymology
Blend of Dubya (“nickname for George W. Bush”) + dumb.
Proper noun
Dumbya
- (US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).
- 2000 October 23, Roger Simon, Kenneth T. Walsh, “Suddenly, it's serious: A turbulent wold intrudes on America's long, national daydream”, in U.S. News & World Report, volume 129, number 16, ISSN 0041-5537, page 36:
- Maybe Dumbya vs. Pinocchio would be a good matchup for late-night comedy, but with U.S. sailors being blown to bits in Yemen, the Mideast in flames, and a stock market as un- reliable as a daily tracking poll, a new sense of seriousness, if not outright gloom, has descended on the White House sweepstakes. The public seems even more exhausted than the candidates.
- 2001 Winter, Robert Lederman, “GW Bush and the Bi-Partisanism Hustle”, in It's About Time…, volume 5, number 1, page 6:
- A lifetime spent as a Rockefeller toady cultivating both open and covert contacts with intelligence agencies, organized crime figures, third world dictators, oil cartels, drug lords and the New World Order made our new President Dumbya possible.
- 2007, Jack Huberman, The GOP-Hater's Handbook: 378 Reasons Never to Vote for the Party of Reagan, Nixon and Bush Again, New York, NY: Nation Books, →ISBN, page 59:
- Because who doesn’t want to own an oil-less, el busto oil company? Do you know anything at all about tax dodges? (As president, Dumbya would appoint Reynolds ambassador to Switzerland after he and DeWitt contributed nearly $1 million to the Bush 2000 campaign.)
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