The German public has reacted to President Christian Wulff's evasiveness after being caught threatening a journalist by coining a new verb 'to wulffen' – meaning to talk on and on unprompted.

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Blair (vb) – scheme and arselick your way to the corridors of power in order to cream off as much as possible for yourself. See also Bliar.

Brown (vb) – spend a decade desperate for a job, but never have the balls to apply for it, before finally getting it handed to you on a plate and completely screwing it up.

Clegg (n) – a unpleasant dry clump found firmly attached to a 'Tory arsehole'.

Thatcher (vb) – stomp on the working classes so effectively that by the time your finished there really is no such thing as society.

May (vb) – to spontaneously make outlandish claims about immigrants.

Obama (vb) – To Hope. As in the sentence “I Hope people don't see beyond my empty slogans”.

Johnson (n) – synonym for penis. See also Cheney.

Bush (n) – another word for shrub.

Abbot (vb) – to compulsively self-harm through social media.

Osbourne (vb) – to hog the pigswill all to yourself while reassuring the others that they must make sacrifices because they're all in it together.

Cameron (vb) – to do a Blair, but more overtly.

(n)- subspecies of blue blooded, parasitic British reptile