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Grand Old Party(n.)

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GOP

also G.O.P., "U.S. Republican Party," 1884, an abbreviation of Grand Old Party. The Republicans were so called from 1876; the Democratic Party also was referred to occasionally as grand old party, with lower-case letters, in 1870s-80s when the Republicans (formed in 1854) still were considered new and radical. The designation grand old ______ is from about 1850; in Great Britain, Lord Palmerston was known as the Grand Old Man by 1880, and it was abbreviated to G.O.M. by 1882.

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    Extended sense of "grand, heroic" is recorded in English by 1731....From 1706 as a noun in reference to an epic poem, "A long narrative told on a grand scale of time and place, featuring a...I believe the word 'epic' is usually understood by English readers to mean merely a long and grand poem instead of a short...
    pool
    "small body of standing water," Old English pol "small body of water; deep, still place in a stream," from Proto-West Germanic...*pōl- (source also of Old Frisian and Middle Low German pol, Dutch poel, Old High German pfuol, German Pfuhl "pool, puddle...Pool party "party at a swimming pool" is by 1965....
    populist
    "an adherent of populism," also (with capital P-), "a member of the Populist Party;" 1893 (adj.); American English, from...Populist Party (or People's Party), organized February 1892 to promote certain issues important to farmers and workers (expansion...The term outlasted the party, and by 1920s came to mean "representing the views of the masses" in a general way, and from...
    grampus
    to killer whales and other large, dolphin-like creatures, 1590s, earlier graundepose (1520s), altered (by influence of grand...) from Middle English graspeys (late 13c.), from Anglo-French grampais, from Old French graspois, craspois "whale, (salted...
    republican
    With capital R-, in reference to a member of a specific U.S. political party (the Anti-Federalists) from 1782, though this...Republican Party, which dates from 1854....In between, National Republicans was a name of the party that opposed Jackson and rallied behind John Quincy Adams in late...
    haught
    c. 1300, haut, "great, high;" mid-15c., "high in one's own estimation, haughty," from Old French haut (11c.)..."main, principal; proud, noble, dignified; eminent; loud; grand," literally "high," from Latin altus "high," literally "grown...
    portal
    , gateway," especially "the entire architectural treatment of the entrance and its surroundings of a cathedral or other grand...building," from Old French portal "gate" (Modern French portail) and directly from Medieval Latin portale "city gate, porch...
    fresh
    c. 1200, fresh, also fersh, "unsalted; pure; sweet; eager;" the modern form is a metathesis of Old English fersc, of water, "not salt, unsalted," itself transposed from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (source also of Old Frisian fersk, Middle Dutch versch, Dutch vers, Old High German fri
    triage
    1727, "action of assorting according to quality," from French triage "a picking out, sorting" (14c.), from Old French trier "to pick, cull" (see try (v.)). There seems to be some influence from or convergence with Latin tria "three" (as in triage for "coffee beans of the third or
    tantalize
    "to tease or torment by presenting something desirable to the view and frustrating expectation by keeping it out of reach," 1590s, with -ize + Latin Tantalus, from Greek Tantalos, name of a mythical king of Phrygia in Asia Minor. Son of Zeus, father of Pelops and Niobe, famous fo

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