saboteuse
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Female equivalent of saboteur.
Example Sentences
- "‘Our spies’ are heroes or better still heroines (Nurse Cavell, who was less a spy than a saboteuse) although we can of course say nothing about them until they are caught and executed."
- "Then there is Haebangt’ap (Liberation Tower, 1953), whose adolescent but motherly heroine Chŏmsun, a saboteuse in UN-occupied Pyongyang, is constantly striving to cultivate the spontaneity of her younger male comrades."
- "These conspicuous “professionals” were facilitating a more diffuse sexual/national sabotage, where abortion really represented treason, where women were the symbolic saboteuses of France."
- "I won't detail the conspiracy theories too deeply here, because I'm reluctant to give them air, but since her emergence as an NFL fan, [Taylor] Swift has been portrayed by conservative U.S. commentators as a distraction, a saboteuse, and an undercover government agent dispatched to brainwash football fans."
Etymology
From French saboteuse.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: saboteuse