celebutard
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of celebrity + debutante + retard.[1][2] The first documented usage of the term was in a story about Paris Hilton published in the New York Post on 21 January 2006 ("Paris With a P"), which was followed by the second documented usage of the term in another story about Hilton published in the same paper five days later ("Unedited Paris Not Cute at All").
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
celebutard (plural celebutards)
- (informal, derogatory, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- 2007 April 17, Clayton Neuman, “The Time 100 – Are They Worthy?”, in Time:
- Paris Hilton … helped coin the buzzword celebutard, a cross between celebrity and retard. From her sex tapes to having her belongings auctioned on the Web, she seems to totter from one embarrassing moment to another.
- 2009 January 25, Andrea Peyser, “Celebutards: A Pox on All the Celebs and Politicians Gone Wild”, in New York Post:
- [A]t some point between the moment a movie script wanders into the hands of a world-class celebutard such as George Clooney, and the words travel through lilting vocal chords and land on unsuspecting ears, something terrible occurs.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "New insults for English language", BBC News, 1 October 2006
- ^ Ben MacIntyre, The Last Word: Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue, Bloomsbury (2010), →ISBN, page 48