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- phrase UK, informal Highlights a mistake, actual or perceived, which the writer feels is
ironic orhumorous .
Etymologies
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Eye dialect spelling of surely some mistake. Originally coined by Private Eye in imitation of the slurred speech of a drunken editor, or of the lisping Daily Telegraph editor Bill Deedes.
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