kung flu
noun/ˈkʌŋ ˈfluː/
Etymology Blend of kung fu + flu, in reference to the disease's presumed origin in Wuhan, China, in late 2019.
- Hart: Kung Flu Virus will blow over2020 February 20, headline, Chattanooga Times Free Press
- "By the way, it's a disease, without question, has more names than any other in history. I can name, ‘kung flu,’ I can name, 19 different versions of names," Trump said.2020 June 23, Eliza Relman, quoting Donald Trump, “White House press secretary says Trump's racist 'kung flu' comment was 'linking' the coronavirus 'to its place of origin'”, in Business Insider:
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- A source close to Mr Cummings said: 'From March through to the autumn, the PM said we should never have locked down. That was why he was so reluctant to do it again in November.' He said, 'the big danger is not Kung-Flu but the harm caused in trying to stop it.'2021 May 25, Simon Walters, “PM 'wanted to be infected with Covid on live TV, called virus Kung-Flu and was slow to act because he was on holiday with Carrie'”, in Daily Mail:
- Related terms
- China virus, Chinese virus, Wuhan coronavirus, Wuhan flu, Wuhan virus, Wuhanvirus