Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ecdysiast

/ɛkˈdɪz.i.æst/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ecdysi-ast
IPA: /ɛkˈdɪz.i.æst/

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper.

Example Sentences

"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?""

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

ecdysiasts (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

ecdyse ecdysis ecdysone striptease

Synonyms

exotic dancer stripper striptease artist striptease stripteaser peeler

Questions

How do you pronounce ecdysiast?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɛkˈdɪz.i.æst/.
What does ecdysiast mean?: An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper.
Where does ecdysiast come from?: Coined by H. L. Mencken from ecdysis (“moulting”) (on the model of enthusiast etc.).

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