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sizeist, a. and n.
Brit. |ˈsʌɪzɪst|, U.S. |ˈsaɪzɪst|
Forms: 19– sizeist, 19– sizist
[‹ size n.1 + -ist suffix. Compare sizeism n.]
A. adj. Exhibiting or characteristic of prejudice or discrimination against people on the basis of size; displaying sizeism; spec. discriminatory or prejudiced against people regarded as overweight or short. Cf. sizeism n.
1971National Lampoon Sept. 43/1 Listen adult supremisist [sic] sizist pigs! 1981N.Y. Times (Nexis) 10 June a30/6 Your reference to ‘5-foot 1-inch bricklayer Joseph Zangara’, who shot at [Franklin] Roosevelt, can only feed this sizist prejudice. 1989Economist (Nexis) 19 Aug. 63 [He] often mimicked Sir Michael's gait in what can only be described as a sizist way. 1995Independent 14 Mar. 11/1 He is not sizeist nor ageist. 2001C. Glazebrook Madolescents 153 So then she gets the humps and calls him a sizeist pig and he winds her up even more by grunting and going, Oink oink.
B. n. A sizeist person.
1985Washington Post 15 Feb. d4, I think there are a lot of ‘sizists’ in the world who discriminate based on size. 1993Evening Standard (Nexis) 25 Nov. 71 New Zealand's 6ft 4ins loose head prop..has made it his business not to conform to the attitudes of the rugby ‘sizeists’. 2000Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 19 Mar. 3 Only sizeists would assume that because she is thin she must now be happy. |