hermelijnkoorts

/ɦɛr.məˈlɛi̯nˌkoːrts/
dişil
FELEMENKÇE → TR

Tanım

•fawning servility towards a monarch

Etimoloji

Compound of hermelijn (“stoat, ermine”) + koorts (“fever”), referring to the ermine that royals often wore in the past. Reportedly coined by Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, according to Thijs Booy.