Cybernat

Quick meaning: Cybernat is a noun meaning (British, informal) A Scottish nationalist who takes part in Internet activism.

Meaning

(British, informal) A Scottish nationalist who takes part in Internet activism.

Example Sentences

The much-vaunted phenomenon of the "cybernat", spraying online vitriol from a dingy bedroom, does indubitably exist, but so does its exact equivalent on the opposite side.

He [Iain Gray] added: “Back in May I asked Alex Salmond to get a grip of these ‘cyber nats’ bloggers. At the time they were spreading rumours about me and other politicians as well. I think Alex Salmond has to come to parliament, apologise, and explain just exactly what has gone on.”

Currently, he [Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan] openly presents himself as a 'vauntie cybernat, former ambassador, and human rights activist', keeping him in sync with the alternative diplomatic culture he always practised, though he now freely engages in the everyday ambassadorship he once struggled to legitimate among his peers.

Word Forms

• cybernats

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cybernationalism, cybernerd, cybername, cyberprotester, cyberpath, cyberactivism.

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