Friday News Fun: Define The Term Of Abuse 'farage'

[Zeuhl]

As pointed out by aog on an earlier thread, the term 'farage' is increasingly being used as a term of abuse or even an expletive.

Can any ABers suggest definitions for this term?

Here are a couple of suggestions

farage n. a smarmy opportunist

to farage v. to achieve prominence well beyond one's merit

[AB Editor]

Sounds like someone who rustles the bushes near Dover.

[VHG]

To farage - to bring to people's attention the scandal of the EU - an organization setup to promote trade amongst European countries - that has now grown into a huge behemoth, so badly and inefficiently run nobody will sign off its acounts. An organization designed to promote peace that will, in the end, finish up blowing Europe apart.

[AB Editor]

"An organization designed to promote peace that will, in the end, finish up blowing Europe apart."

Do you really believe that?

[Noth43]

I do

[ichkeria]

Farage vi - to pronounce one's surname poshly (see bucket, hyacinth etc)

[stewey]

Farage: a structure, located a long way from your house, in which to keep your car.

[Noth43]

lol stewey

[mazie]

Love it stewey :o)

[emmie]

always sounds like Farrago, some interesting ones

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/farrago

[emmie]

farrago - From Latin, originally "a mash for feeding cattle"; later, figuratively, a medley or hodgepodge.
See also related terms for mash.

[Zeuhl]

I do like the term 'hodgepodge' em

[emmie]

mash is good too... Personally i quite like him,

[Gromit]

Farage.

To rant and rage and explete at people in authority. As in

Sir Alex Ferguson has been charged with FA Rage.

[bazwillrun]

"An organization designed to promote peace that will, in the end, finish up blowing Europe apart. "

Exactly, thats the way all empires eventually go.
there will be all the various seperatist/terrorist groups fighting to get their countries back, their culture , their identity , their currency, their language and most importantly their freedom etc etc.

[Zeuhl]

/thats the way all empires eventually go/

so based on your historical model, we have two or three hundred years (or more) of growth and prosperity before all that happens.

Seems like a good deal to me!

[youngmafbog]

Judging by the partakers it should have been:

"Friday News Lefty Love in: Define The Term Of Abuse 'farage'"

I see he has also had lunch with Murdoch, that should have you lot really choking on you Muesli

[New Judge]

I have not seen AOG’s mention of “farage” being used as a derogatory term. However, it does not surprise me if it is.

I don’t understand why it is that some sections of the political spectrum have to take to personal insults as soon as a party or group begins to say things that they do not like or agree with. You don’t hear the term “to Brown” to describe taking a nation to the brink of bankruptcy; you don’t hear “a Blair” as a word for a war based on falsehoods and misleading information; You don’t hear of a “Bob Crow” industrial dispute when union leaders persuade their members to strike for extra pay simply for doing their job. So why does the leader of UKIP warrant having his name used in a derogatory fashion?

Anyone watching Question Time last night would have seen the vilification and downright insolence displayed towards UKIP and their representative on the panel. Words such as “disgusting”, “scaremongers”, and “racists” were regularly thrown about when some members of the audience attempted to get their points across. I’m used to politicians and football supporters behaving childishly. There’s really no need for the rest of us to follow suit.

[sandyRoe]

It must be derived from 'Farrago', which I believe means a dogs dinner, a mess, or a heap of lies.
So, to 'farage' is to cobble together all of the above and present them as a political philosophy.

[bazwillrun]

from New Judge

"Anyone watching Question Time last night would have seen the vilification and downright insolence displayed towards UKIP and their representative on the panel. Words such as “disgusting”, “scaremongers”, and “racists” were regularly thrown about when some members of the audience attempted to get their points across. "

so thats where the guardianistas on here get it from

[jim360]

Farage - to look for reasons to bring the EU into the answer of any question, no matter how tentative the link