单词 | ecdysiast |
释义 | ecdysiastn. A strip-teaser. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease artist teaser1929 stripper1930 strip-teaser1930 strippeuse1939 ecdysiast1940 strip-teaseuse1941 peeler1942 stripteuse1942 strip-tease artist1947 exotic1954 split beaver1972 1940 H. L. Mencken Let. 5 Apr. in Amer. Lang. (1945) Suppl. I. vi. vi. 585 It might be a good idea to relate strip-teasing in some way..to the associated zoölogical phenomenon of molting... A resort to the scientific name for molting, which is ecdysis, produces both ecdysist and ecdysiast. 1958 Time 7 July 44/1 Is it possible for a nightclub to lose money with famed Ecdysiast Sherry Britton stripping to bugle beads and pearls? Derivatives ecˈdysiasm n. the activity or occupation of strip-teasing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease girl show1841 strip1928 teaser1929 strip-tease1936 strip-teasing1937 ecdysiasm1947 full monty1997 1947 I. J. C. Brown Say Word 50 And there we can leave the problems and pride of ecdysiasm. 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 611/2 As happily sustained a piece of autobiographical ecdysiasm as we remember. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1940 |
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