ecdysiast

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɛkˈdɪz.i.æst/

Definition of ecdysiast

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncommon)An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper.
    “I had never seen an ecdysiast before; toward the end she was wearing nothing but seven beads, four of them sweat.”
    “However, the Queen of Ecdysiasts, Gypsy Rose Lee, was not amused. In a 1940 interview, she leveled her guns against Mencken: "Ecdysiast, he calls me! Why, the man... has been reading books! Dictionaries! We don't wear feathers and molt them off... What does he know about stripping?"”

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Etymology

Coined by H. L. Mencken from ecdysis (“moulting”) (on the model of enthusiast etc.).

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