grauniad

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɡɹɔːniæd/
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/ˈɡɹɔːniæd/ · /-əd/

Definition of grauniad

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

  1. (UK, humorous)The Guardian, a British daily national newspaper.
    “Good old Grauniad.”
    “Stop along the road for papers; scan headlines, make sure that no late-breaking story displaced the Vanguard piece and that it's intact (ninety-five percent – a satisfyingly high score), check out Doonesbury in the Grauniad, then away.”
    “Katherine Viner wants to appoints a "1 per cent correspondent" to hound the filthy rich. As befits a possible Grauniad editrix, the NUJ misspelt her name.”
    “His appointment marked the start of a daily corrections and clarifications column, a first for a UK newspaper, which has mined a rich seam of typos and other slips for which “the Grauniad” is fondly known.”

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Etymology

Deliberate misspelling of Guardian, coined by the UK satirical magazine Private Eye, implying that the Guardian newspaper was prone to typographical errors.

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