covfefe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊˈfɛfi/
ipa: /koʊˈfɛfeɪ/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Italic *-kos
Latin -cus
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English coverage
English covfefe
From a tweet by Donald Trump on May 31, 2017: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”, presumably intending to write coverage. Donald Trump later tweeted: “Who can figure out the true meaning of "covfefe" ??? Enjoy!”. Sense 1 ("deliberate misspelling of coffee") is from the phonetic similarity.
Senses: examples: text: A covfefe journal! Write your deep thoughts in this journal while drinking covfefe.
ref: 2017, Carter, Powered by Covfefe: Writing Journal, CreateSpace, →ISBN:
text: IN AN AMERICA so gluten-free that a box of jelly donuts is now a bigger threat than Vladimir Putin, where college kids are more afraid of Ann Coulter than HIV, it’s time for someone to stand up and make us all smell the covfefe.
ref: 2017, Denis Leary, Why We Don’t Suck and How All of Us Need to Stop Being Such Partisan Little Bitches, New York, N.Y.: Crown Archetype, →ISBN, front flap:
text: On 31 May, we all woke up and smelled the Covfefe.
ref: 2017, James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, Dan Schreiber, The Book of the Year: The Weirder Side of 2017, London: Random House Books, →ISBN, page 57:
ref: 2017, P. W. Longhammer, I Like My Women Like I Like My Covfefe, Amazon Digital Services LLC, →ISBN
text: Everyone has a vote, and votes matter. Next election, use yours. Now get a cup of covfefe and dive in.
ref: 2018 January 19, Alek Korab, “Welcome to Metro.us”, in Alek Korab, editor, Metro New York, New York, N.Y., page 2, column 3:
text: Drilling down into the details of the report, rather than just cutting and pasting from a news release, reveals an increase in covfefe consumption range from .02 to .15 UK cups per day among the genetically enhanced like myself.
ref: 2018 November 22, Ricki Lewis, “The Coffee-Genes Story Brews Discontent on Thanksgiving”, in DNA Science (PLOS Blogs), archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020:
text: Now you’re in the sunken place … with a damn fine cup of “covfefe”: the dangers of nostalgia and the darkness of future past in the age of Trump
ref: 2019, “Contents”, in Victoria McCollum, editor, Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear (The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:
text: How do I know whether a reporter or media outlet (proposing to interview me on G&S topics) genuinely supports my work or is setting me up for negative press? Smelling the Covfefe, USA.
ref: 2019, Smelling the Covfefe [pseudonym], “Q.7 Media Mess”, in Tiffany Jones, Leanne Coll, Lisa van Leent, Yvette Taylor, editors, Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 273–274:
text: Wake up and smell the covfefe and tell the spinning corpse of Robin Day the news.
ref: 2019, Stewart Lee, “It will take more than ceramics and cheese to unite our divided country”, in March of the Lemmings: Brexit in Print and Performance 2016–2019, London: Faber & Faber, →ISBN, part I (Brexit in Print 2016–2019):
text: Whether you're addicted to a hot cup of covfefe like I am, or wanting to rep that Anthem hype with pride atop your head, the new line is off to a strong start with apparel, a coffee mug, and a commemorative keychain.
ref: 2019 January 9, Liana 'LiLi' Ruppert, “Official 'Anthem' Merchandise Revealed From Numskull”, in ComicBook.com, Pop Culture Media, Paramount Global, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2019:
text: Soon after she started in Congress, Devil’s Due, a comic book publisher, announced its latest product: […] Grab a hamberder and cup of covfefe and prepare to enjoy this read!
ref: 2020, Caroline Fredrickson, “Introduction”, in The AOC Way: The Secrets of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Success, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:
text: THE TRUMPTINI 1 part bleach 1 part disinfectant 1 Tide pod Take with your morning covfefe. GUARANTEED TO CURE CORONAVIRUS. SIDE EFFECT: CERTAIN DEATH.
ref: 2021 January 18, “Section 7”, in KORONAKOMİK, Holistence Publications, →ISBN, page 60:
text: Not ‘covfefe’: Successor to Starbucks opens in Russia
ref: 2022 August 19, “Headlines”, in Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Mich., →ISSN, page 9A:
text: But the best was years ago, when I hacked my husband’s phone and programmed it to replace his commonly used words with some absurd phrases from our former president. For example, “coffee” became “covfefe,” “cool” turned into “bigly,” and “Hannaford” transformed into “Build a wall!”
ref: [2024 April 7, Hilary Koch, “On David Hasselhoff and the healing power of laughter”, in Central Maine Sunday (Morning Sentinel), volume 7, number 14, Waterville, Me., page A7, column 5:
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of coffee.
examples: text: Go ahead, read on to humankind’s honest truth, the coinciding dominion where mansplaining reality confronts feminazi theory. A covfefe amphitheater revealing women not as chattel to be bought and sold.
ref: 2017, Nathaniel Schmeling, Timing the Infinite, →ISBN:
text: THEN A LITTLE SPRINKLE OF COVFEFE DUST. NOT EVEN TRUMP KNOW WHAT IN IT. […] AHHHH… TREMENDOUS TRUMP ALWAYS SAVE THE DAY.
ref: 2018, Joe Dunn, “The Fecal Fiend”, in A Man-Child Covefe! (The Tremendous Trump), San Antonio, Tex.: Antarctic Press:
text: President Trump, I was not being delusional in calling him by the name in which he tweets out insults through a covfefe movement, as you will come to learn towards the end the use of this word, which no reasonable language can justify its meaning except to take each letter apart and turn them into our present indwelling shame that this president has brought upon the United States of America. […] For now, we look for truth, hope, and light, or some form of hope within these truths, and not covfefe, which is here taunting us to stay silent until calamity becomes America’s portion.
ref: 2018, Najah Mahir, “Preface”, in The Ransom that Lies Demand: We the People and “Covfefe”, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, pages xv and xx:
text: But he [Mike Pence]’s no Trump in any sense. […] The base respects Pence and his loyal service, but he just does not have the covfefe that the base needs and wants in 2024.
ref: 2020, Kurt Schlichter, The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump (and You!), Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Covfefe, construed as a disruptive space, is a form of noise – a disturbance in the orderly sequence. […] So, even if much of the covfefe may appear as random ramblings, the disturbance as such still has political consequences and effects. The noise generated through covfefe becomes a crack in the dominant discourse, a crack that can be deepened through continued work.
ref: 2020, Simon Lindgren, Data Theory: Interpretive Sociology and Computational Methods, Polity Press, →ISBN:
text: In the meantime, a battered and bruised capital has adjusted to life at a calmer pace, with quieter activities and words replacing the obscenities, characters and gibberish that used to shape how the [Trump] days were spent. Bagels over Bannon. Grandchildren over golf. Church over covfefe.
ref: 2021 February 22, Katie Rogers, “Did Washington Just Have an Actual Weekend?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2021:
text: He states he can design a better fighter jet than the military. Really? Maybe with a bit of magical covfefe.
ref: 2023 September 28, David Lubin, “[Your letters] The magic man”, in Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla., page 20A, column 1:
glosses: A notional representation of the success, discourse, or ideas of Donald Trump.
Derived terms: english: Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement Act
translation: Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement Act
word: COVFEFE Act
alt: volatility-index based on Donald Trump's tweets
word: Volfefe index
Related terms: english: unrelated similar-sounding word
translation: unrelated similar-sounding word
word: cofeoffee
english: another misspelling by Donald Trump
translation: another misspelling by Donald Trump
word: hamberder