leaderene
/ˌliːdəˈriːn
/noun British humorous
A female leader, especially an autocratic one: the leaderene went down with a satisfying thump, her spiked coronet falling off...
- Indeed the leaderene regarded television to be dominated by the unions and grossly overmanned.
- Meanwhile, and further afield, the tremors resonating from the leaderene's misstep have been recorded on the outrage scale.
Origin
1980s (originally a humorous or ironic name for Margaret Thatcher): from leader + -ene, on the pattern of female given names such as Marlene.
- entasis
- Entebbe
- entelechy
- entellus
- entellus monkey
- entelodont
- entente
- entente cordiale
- enter
- enteral
- enterally
- enteric
- enteric fever
- enter into
- enter into force
- enter into the spirit
- enter into the spirit of something
- enteritis
- enter key
- entero-
- enterobacterium
- enterococcus
- enterocoel
- enterocoelic
- enterocoely