Brexity

English

Etymology

From Brexit +‎ -y.

Adjective

Brexity (comparative more Brexity, superlative most Brexity)

  1. (Britain, informal) Characteristic of Brexit, or the attitudes thought to underlie it; parochial, jingoistic.
    • 2016, David Greig, New Statesman, 26 October:
      It feels a bit Brexity: a pained cry from the past, “We want our Shakespearean canon back!”
    • 2018, Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 7 June:
      It is a society that has evolved separately from Britain’s mainland and its Anglican beliefs, but it looks like an alternative reality of fiercely insular, irrational England. Is there anything more Brexity than this?
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