Meanings
- informaluncountableOpposition to vaccines and vaccination; reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated or to have one's children vaccinated.
Curious about anti-vaxxing but not sure whether you want to risk the lives of your children on a vague vogue? Well: why not practise on your dogs first? That’s right: anti-vaxxing for animals. An accoutrement as chi-chi as any doggie waistcoat, is now a thing.
2018 January 24, Gavin Haynes, “The anti-vaxxers have a new target in their sights – pets”, in The Guardian1 more example
While in the United States, anti-vaxxing is usually associated with freedom-loving, mask-hating, Trumpist conservatives, protests in Britain have had a more leftist anti-authoritarian flavor. In fact, one of the most prominent anti-vaccination protesters is Piers Corbyn, brother of the former leader of the opposition Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn.
2020 December 11, Jamie Ross, “Crisis-Actor Grandmas, Chimps, and Boris-Branded Microchips: Britain’s Anti-Vaxxers Lose It as Rollout Begins”, in The Daily Beast
- informalnot comparableOpposing vaccines and vaccination.
The songs are altogether more upbeat, from the folderol folk song given an aggressive modern makeover, to a satire on anti-vaxxing parents – which feels one-dimensional until a klezmer break takes the song in a nonsense new direction.
2020 January 15, Brian Logan, “Flo & Joan review – comedy's squabbling sister act pack in songs and surprises”, in The GuardianSynonyms: anti-vaccine, anti-vaccination, anti-vax
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOpposing vaccines and vaccination.
Origin
From anti- + vaxxing (present participle of vax).
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