zinger

ホワイトハウスを去ったトランプ元大統領に対して、グレタ・トゥーンベリさんがツイッターで放ったツイートが話題です。

世界を股にかける環境活動家はまだ10代ですが、皮肉な言辞にも長けているようですね。

Greta Thunberg appeared to have the last laugh as she reignited her Twitter feud with outgoing President Donald Trump as he left office as a one-term President.

The teenage climate activist hit out as Joe Biden was sworn in as America’s 46th President of the United States.

“He seems like a very happy old man looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!” Thunberg wrote on Twitter under a picture of Trump boarding a helicopter to leave the White House.

The zinger was a reference to Trump’s belittling response to Greta after her passionate speech to the United Nations.

(Barney Davis. ‘He seems like a happy old man!” Greta Thunberg has last laugh in Donald Trump feud. Evening Standard. January 21, 2021.)

"zinger"というのは、

a pointed witty remark or retort

(Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

ということで、当意即妙の言葉、とかきつい冗談、といった意味です。

以前、"zing"という動詞を取り上げましたが、その"zing"に名詞を作る接尾辞-erが付いたものです。