Etymology

Wagatha Christie

Today it means: A dispute between footballers' wives Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney regarding the leaking of posts from a private social media account, which culminated in a 2022 libel case in the English High Court, Vardy v Rooney. Full definition →

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The story

Blend of WAG (“wife or girlfriend”) + Agatha Christie (“a whodunnit fiction writer”).

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