sloganeer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make and disseminate slogans; often contrasted with substantive debate.
Example Sentences
- "As a sloganeer too, he overspent his voice shouting slogans during demonstrations and he eventually lost it."
- "At such times, the nuanced and expert advice of what they call the rational center — career professionals, scholars, analysts and others working in government and at universities and think tanks — is sidelined or ignored, while emotional sloganeering is amplified by 24/7 cable news and Internet chatter that prize raucous confrontations between fervent avatars of the right and the left."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *slowgʰos Proto-Celtic *slougos Old Irish slóg Middle Irish slúag Scottish Gaelic sluagh Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥der. Proto-Celtic *-sman Proto-Celtic *garsmander. Old Irish gairm Scottish Gaelic gairm Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairmbor. English sloggorne English slughorne English slughorn English slogan Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Middle French -ierder. English -eer English sloganeer From slogan + -eer. US origin (1922), popularized by Franklin D. Roosevelt.