Etymograph

English

Flakegate

From flake + -gate.

Formed from flake + -gate

Middle English flake ‘a flake of snow’

English flake

Today it means

name A controversy of 2000 involving the wedding of TV presenter Anthea Turner to Grant Bovey, where the two were photographed eating Snowflake chocolate bars and the pictures were subsequently used to promote the product, damaging Turner's credibility.

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