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Wed Feb 22, 2023, 01:21 PM Feb 2023

Time to call Fox News and its viewers what they are, Podsnappery or Podsnapperiums [View all]

Fox News is Podsnappery ergo Fox News viewers are Podsnapperiums

Podsnappery Podsnappery Podsnappery know it, learn it, love it, and use it.
example you go into a business and they have on Fox and then the brave DUer says,
"Can you just turn that un-American Podsnappery off?" or call your cable company and ask
them, "Is there anyway to block that Fox News Podsnappery?"


Podsnappery
Definition:
an attitude toward life marked by complacency and a refusal to recognize unpleasant facts

Degree of Usefulness:
High, especially when talking to fans of Charles Dickens, from whose work the word was taken.

What to know:
Podsnappery came from the name of Mr. Podsnap, a character in Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/great-big-list-of-beautiful-and-useless-words-vol-4

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