Shrillary

English

Etymology

Blend of shrill +‎ Hillary, likely to invoke the connotation of being loud, overbearing, and irrational that the word shrill may have when applied to women.[1][2]

Proper noun

Shrillary

  1. (US politics, slang, derogatory) Hillary Clinton (born 1947), US politician and diplomat.

References
  1. William Cheng, "The Long, Sexist History of 'Shrill' Women", Time, 23 March 2016
  2. Kate Burridge & Howard Manns, "Shrill, bossy, emotional: why language matters in the gender debate", The Conversation, 9 May 2021
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