Nifong

English Etymology 1 From en de Neufang. Proper noun en rare German. Etymology 2 From Mike Nifong, a North Carolina District Attorney who made headlines for a controversial prosecution and his subsequent disbarment while in office for ethics violations. Verb To make a self-serving, politically-motivated accusation or prosecution. en Dave Highlands WE MUST NOT TOLERATE THIS CRUELTY TO ANIMALS St. Petersburg Times July 28 2007 I should have expected Nifonging by liberal rags such as the Herald-Sun. I would have expected better from the Times. 2007, Henry Jones, "Teacher Cleared of Having Sex with Students Sues School District," Hannity & Colmes, FOX News Network, August 27, 2007: We're not going away. We're going to seek justice. What happened to her, she was Nifonged. They just rushed to judgment without any notice of who her accusers were, what the accusations were. They fired her in a couple of days. en Ted Van Dyk NIFONG EXAMPLE RAISES GOOD QUESTIONS. Seattle Post-Intelligencer September 27 2007 Imagine for a moment that a similar incident had taken place at a local university and that a prosecutor here had Nifonged. en Ralph Blumenthal Prosecutor in DeLay Case Says He Won’t Seek Re-election Next Year The New York Times December 15 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/us/15texas.html?_r=1&oref=slogin “He never had any intention of finishing off his revenge on Tom DeLay and is scared to death of being Nifonged while still in office,” Ms. Flaherty said, a reference to Michael B. Nifong, the disgraced former prosecutor in the Duke University lacrosse team rape case that collapsed as groundless. https://web.archive.org/web/20250123123204/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/us/15texas.html?_r=1&oref=slogin 23 January 2025 2008, Campaign poster, Friends for Freda Black, April 2008, : Don't get "Nifonged" again! Quotations en en eponyms