Brixit

English

Proper noun

Brixit

1. Former name of Brexit. [c. 2011–2015]
   • 2012 June 21, “Bagehot” [pseudonym], “A Brixit looms”, in The Economist‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 June 2012:

     Yet the chances of Britain leaving the EU in the next few years are higher than they have ever been. A Brixit looms for several reasons.

   • 2012 June 22, Iain Murray, “Bring on the ‘Brixit’: EU withdrawal would bring benefits for both Britain and the US”, in Daily Mail‎^[2], archived from the original on 21 June 2016:

     The reason for the increasing likelihood of what some are terming a 'Brixit' (short for British exit, like Grexit for Greek exit) is quite simple.

   • 2014, Heinrich Best, John Higley, “Introduction”, in Heinrich Best, John Higley, editors, Political Elites in the Transatlantic Crisis‎^[3], Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:

     Moreover, the upstart UK Independence Party (UKIP), which urged a 'Brixit,' seemed poised to attract significant numbers of Conservative and Labour voters.

   • 2014, Alan V. Deardorff, Terms of Trade: Glossary of International Economics, 2nd edition, Singapore: World Scientific, →ISBN, page 40:

     Brixit: Term used in the British press starting in June 2012 for the possible exit of Britain from the European Union […]. The term was devised as analogous to the term grexit […].

Usage notes

By the time of the UK's EU membership referendum in 2016 the form Brixit had more or less completely fallen out of use in favour of Brexit; which latter was subsequently adopted as the official term by the UK government.