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Fingergate
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English
Etymology
From en finger gate.
Proper noun
en informal A 2015 controversy around a video, later found to be doctored, allegedly showing Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis making an obscene hand gesture to punctuate his comments about the financial relationship of Greece and Germany during a lecture in Croatia in 2013.
en Robert Mackey Greco-German ‘Fingergate’ Gets Curiouser and Curiouser The New York Times 2015-03-20 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/world/europe/greco-german-fingergate-gets-stranger-and-stranger.html 0362-4331 Asked to comment on this latest turn in the unfolding “Fingergate” scandal, which has focused populist rage in Germany over the Greek debt on Greece’s new finance minister, Mr. Varoufakis told Reuters TV in Athens on Thursday that he had been vindicated. https://web.archive.org/web/20240701004219/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/world/europe/greco-german-fingergate-gets-stranger-and-stranger.html 1 July 2024