missileern.

Brit.

/mɪsᵻˈlɪə/,

/ˌmɪsʌɪˈlɪə/, U.S.

/ˌmɪsᵻˈlɪ(ə)r/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: missile n., -eer suffix¹.

Etymology: < missile n. + -eer suffix¹, perhaps after engineer n. Compare earlier missile man n.

= missile man n.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > one who studies or experiments with weapons > [noun]

artillerista1751

projectilist1852

ballistician1907

missile man1951

missileer1960

1960 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 Feb. 89/2 On occasion, one gets the uneasy feeling that maybe the missileer has become a little too attuned to the kind of space measurement that involves light-years.

1986 T. Clancy Red Storm Rising (1988) xxvi. 428 The German missileers in the village skillfully changed firing points after every shot.

1993 A. Toffler & H. Toffler War & Anti-war xii. 105 It doesn't take much to imagine dislocated, disgruntled, and desperate satellite specialists or missileers from, say, the Tyuratam missile test range in Kazakhstan, offering secret information to China.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	missileer
释义	missileern. Brit. /mɪsᵻˈlɪə/, /ˌmɪsʌɪˈlɪə/, U.S. /ˌmɪsᵻˈlɪ(ə)r/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: missile n., -eer suffix¹. Etymology: < missile n. + -eer suffix¹, perhaps after engineer n. Compare earlier missile man n. = missile man n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > one who studies or experiments with weapons > [noun] artillerista1751 projectilist1852 ballistician1907 missile man1951 missileer1960 1960 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 Feb. 89/2 On occasion, one gets the uneasy feeling that maybe the missileer has become a little too attuned to the kind of space measurement that involves light-years. 1986 T. Clancy Red Storm Rising (1988) xxvi. 428 The German missileers in the village skillfully changed firing points after every shot. 1993 A. Toffler & H. Toffler War & Anti-war xii. 105 It doesn't take much to imagine dislocated, disgruntled, and desperate satellite specialists or missileers from, say, the Tyuratam missile test range in Kazakhstan, offering secret information to China. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1960
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