Meaning of Bregret | Babel Free

Definitions

Regret about Brexit (or voting in favour of Brexit).

countable, neologism, uncountable

Examples

“The anxiety – dubbed “Bregret” – emerged as the value of the pound tumbled and markets crashed, while [some felt] betrayed by Nigel Farage’s admission that a Vote Leave poster pledging to spend millions of pounds supposedly given to the EU on the NHS was a “mistake”.”

“Yet polling shows no ‘Bregret’ – a YouGov survey earlier this week showed 52% of voters think leaving was right and 48% wrong, mirroring the referendum result.”

“Brexit may be in the history books, but “Bregret,” as the British newspapers have called it, is back in the air.”

“A creeping sense of Bregret is taking hold in Britain. A majority of Brits now say that the vote for Britain leaving the EU was a mistake.”

“Three years on from Brexit, all UK voters are left with is a bitter taste of Bregret [title]”

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