British slang for the kind of pompous, blustering, reactionary conservatism associated with Colonel Blimp — the mustachioed cartoon figure who became a symbol of hidebound establishment thinking. Blimpery describes a whole attitude: reflexive resistance to change, nostalgia for an imagined golden age, and an unshakeable belief that things were better when the right people were in charge. It's less a political platform than a social performance of grumpy superiority.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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The editorial was pure blimpery — three paragraphs lamenting that young people no longer wear hats.
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(British, derogatory) political conservatism.
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