Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

draadsitter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: draad-sit-ter
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fence sitter.

Example Sentences

"Silas Nkanunu - vice President under Luyt, last week was the only time he stood up to Luyt and that was when he was sure of Luyt's demise, in my opinion a bit of a 'draadsitter'"
"It is now very un-PC to attribute this comment to Humpty-Dumpty, who, as we all know, was male, white and middle-aged. And the only proof that he wasn't an Afrikaans pale male is the fact that he was a wall-sitter instead of a draadsitter."
"u better decide who you´re going to join, the peckies or the boers, the englishmen will never amount to anything. draadsitter."

Etymology

From Afrikaans draadsitter, from draad (“wire, fence”) + sitter (“sitter”), probably a calque of English fence sitter.

Origin

Source language: Afrikaans

Word Breakdown

Root: draadsitter, fence sitter

Inflected Forms

draadsitters (plural)

Questions

What does draadsitter mean?: A fence sitter.
Where does draadsitter come from?: It is traced to Afrikaans.

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