-gate
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- A scandal involving alleged illegal acts and often a cover-up, especially by government officials:
政治丑闻：与所声称的非法行为有关的丑闻且常常以各种手段掩饰，尤其是指为政府官员所为者：
Irangate.
伊朗军火丑闻
语源
- After Watergate
After Watergate
-gate
combining form in countable noun
indicating a person or thing that has been the cause of, or is associated with, a public scandal
⇒
Irangate
⇒
Camillagate
Origin
C20: on the analogy of Watergate-gate
1
a combining form extracted from Watergate, occurring as the final element in journalistic coinages, usually nonce words, that name scandals resulting from concealed crime or other alleged improprieties in government or business:
Koreagate.
-gatea combining element indicating a scandal, especially a political scandal.
[from (Water)gate]-gate
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Irangate
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ETYMOLOGY Watergate
: usually political scandal often involving the concealment of wrongdoingIrangate
-gate
combining form
- in nouns denoting an actual or alleged scandal, especially one involving a cover-up［用于名词］表示“（尤指有人试图掩盖的）丑闻”：
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Irangate.
词源
early 1970s： suggested by the Watergate scandal in the US, 1972.
1973 National Lampoon Aug. 27/2 There have been persistent rumors in Russia of a vast scandal... Implicated in ‘the Volgagate’ are a group of liberal officials.
1975 Mod. People 1 Oct. 1 (heading)Shocking Dallasgate revealed.
1976 Guardian Weekly 5 Dec. 6/2 The continually expanding scandal over the Park regime's influence peddling on Capitol Hill has already been called a ‘Koreagate’.
1978 Newsweek 23 Jan. 55/3 Rumors of a coverup spread, and journalists scurried to investigate what some were already calling Hollywoodgate.
1978 Maclean's Mag. 9 Oct. 66 (caption)Thorpe and Whitehall-gate: how the Establishment works.
1986 Independent 10 Dec. 12/3 It is all too easy for Mr Reagan..to see ‘Irangate’ purely in domestic American terms.
1975 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Apr. 1/6 (heading)Motorgate: how a floating corpse led to a fraud inquiry and ousters by GM.
1977 N.Y. TimesMag. 16 Oct. 38/1Lancegate is no Watergate... The Carter men had hardly a month to plan..a downplaying of Bert Lance's problems.
1978 Time 6 Mar. 21/2 Many friends of Flood's will probably be touched by the investigation, which is already becoming known as ‘Floodgate’.
1978 Observer 10 Dec. 5/1 The South African Government easily defeated..an attempt..to force its resignation over ‘Muldergate’—the Information Department scandal.
1979 Ibid. 29 July 4/1‘Totegate’..centres on the Tote's practice of collecting off-course bets and sending them for inclusion..at the racecourse up to five minutes after the result of the race is known.
1980 Newsweek 18 Aug. 81/1 The unfolding tale of Billy Carter and his Libyan connection—an affair that many big-city dailies still call ‘Billygate’.
1983 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 11 July 4/2 It seems to me absurd—on the basis of what we know now—to equate ‘Cartergate’ with ‘Watergate’.
1986 Marxism Today Sept. 41/3 The current deterioration of the Ulster environment will continue unabated..if future developments significantly touch the RUC (‘Stalkergate’) or the judiciary.
1973 Saturday Rev. World (U.S. ) 20 Nov. 45/1Inevitably, the brouhaha of Bordeaux became known as Wine-gate.
1975 Time 18 Aug. 67/2 The suspects allegedly falsified records, fed incriminating evidence through a paper shredder and conducted a cover-up so pervasive that one investigator calls it ‘Ice Cream Gate’.
1976 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 11 Apr. d14/7 Farmers in Zuiderveen's Missaukee County have distributed bumper stickers that say ‘PBB: Cattlegate bigger than Watergate.’
1978 Time 2 Oct. 43/1 The affair that Britons were dubbing ‘Oilgate’ threatened to reach into the highest places.
1983 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 July 20/2‘Hearingsgate’ is now before the House ethics committee.
1983 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 2 Aug. 4/5 In their zeal to pump ‘Altergate’ into a full-blown scandal..Gregg and Hiler charged that..alterations had been made in the transcripts of..other hearings.
-gate
suffix attached to any word to indicate "scandal involving," 1973, abstracted from Watergate, the Washington, D.C., building complex that was home of the National Headquarters of the Democratic Party when it was burglarized June 17, 1972, by operatives later found to be working for the staff and re-election campaign of U.S. President Richard Nixon.
ORIGIN: Extracted from Water)gate
☞ gate
-gate
\ˌgāt\ noun combining form
(-s)
Etymology: Watergate, scandal that arose in 1972 from the suppressed investigation of a burglary at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.
: usually political scandal often including concealment of wrongdoing
< Irangate >
< Koreagate >
< Irangate >
< Koreagate >
-gate 1
Suffix
- Combined with keywords to form the names of scandals. 2009 June 22, Phillip Coorey and Annabel Crabb, in Sydney Morning Herald:
- The Australian Federal Police revealed this afternoon that the email that sparked the so-called Utegate controversy was faked.
Etymology
Back-formation from Watergate.
Usage notes
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -gate
See also
-gate 2
Suffix
- Used to form place names.
Etymology
From Old English geat.
词根词缀：-gate
【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix; from agere to set in motion, to drive, to lead; to do, to act
【同源单词】abnegate, abrogate, aggregate, alligate, arrogate, bifurgate