trump
Keywords: discourse, politics, law
Pronunciation (IPA): | 'trum, 'trum.bəs, ˈtrum.ɡa |
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Part of Speech: | term noun verb |
Class: | skurun |
Forms: | trump, trumpys, trumpysyn, trumpka |
Glosses: | corruption, corrupt, dishonest, fickle, feckless, con, con man, scam, scammer, bastard, asshole, sucker, rube |
Description:
The term 'trump' comes from the family name of the second last and last Presidents of the old United States, respectively, Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. The Trumps were deeply hated figures, particularly among the early Globalists, who positioned themselves early on as diametrically opposed to the Trumpist movement and the Trump regime, and similar movements in other countries, which at that time was called 'fascism' after a similar early 20th century political movement.
The Trumps are widely blamed for the decline and fall of the old American Order and the rise of the New World Order by people across the ideological spectrum in the modern world, so hatred for the Trumps is actually a rare point of general agreement.
The word was taken over as a spelling pronunciation, rather than the realisation 'trym' you would expect from a sound-based borrowing. Furthermore, the borrowing is irregular, with the final 'p' silent in the base form and pronounced in derived forms with added suffixes.
Noun:
Modern people do know where the word comes from, but it's lost a lot of its historical context and punch for most people. In modern High Common, it can have a number of meanings, from the abstract 'corruption' to the concrete 'con' or 'con artist'.
It can also be used as a general-purpose insult with the force of something like 'asshole' or 'bastard'.
In a legal context, the word 'na trumpysyn' refers to felony corruption by a public official and/or severe dereliction of duty. 'Trump' can be used in football writing to refer to a person convicted of such crimes.
The derived form 'trumpka' means 'sucker' or 'rube'.
Modifier:
The modifier form 'trumpys' (the 'p' is pronounced) means 'corrupt'. It can have other senses like 'dishonest' or 'fickle'.
Verb:
In a verb context, 'trump' is a transitive skurun verb with a sense like 'con', 'cheat' or 'screw over'. It takes an ergative con artist and an absolutive victim.