English
Gategate
From gate + -gate, since the controversy involved a policeman asking MP Andrew Mitchell to leave Downing Street by a different gate.
Formed from gate + -gate
Proto-Germanic *gatą ‘hole, opening’
Proto-West Germanic *gat ‘opening, gate’
Old English ġeat ‘gate, door’
Middle English gate ‘gate’
English gate
Today it means
name Synonym of Plebgate.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Gategate