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Barnehulme has dust turned to brown; these dyed to tartan him, rueroot, dulse, bracken, teasel, fuller’s ash, sundew and cress; long gunn but not for cotton; stood his sharp assault of famine but grew girther, girther and girther; he has twenty four or so cousins germinating in the United States of America and a namesake with an initial difference in the once kingdom of
Finnegans Wake 2006
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On the list of nominees for the subcategory of Most Creative word of 2018 was girther, defined as a person who takes a skeptical view regarding whether the annual health check on the president gives a true indication of the data for computing body-mass index.
Can a Word Capture the Zeitgeist of a Year? No. Maybe. Yes It Can. John Moore, Getty Images 2019
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http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/01/girthers-memes-say-trump-lied-about-height-and-weight.html
On Twitter, people were quick to question Trump’s physical results. “People” included MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who offered up the term “girther” as a description of anybody skeptical of the president’s purported measurements, which quickly became a hashtag used by anybody sharing pictures of Trump next to somebody else who reportedly weighs 239 pounds. James Gunn offered to donate $100,000 to “Trump’s favorite charity” if the president would publicly step on a scale. Mostly, it was just a lot of pictures of Trump compared to pictures of tall dudes in very good shape.
January 17, 2018