different between ecdysiast vs stripper

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?d?z.i.æst/

Noun

ecdysiast (plural ecdysiasts)

1. An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper.
   • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, p. 79:

     I had never seen an ecdysiast before; toward the end she was wearing nothing but seven beads, four of them sweat.

   • 2004, Chrysti the Wordsmith, Verbivore's Feast: A Banquet of Word and Phrase Origins, Farcountry Press, p. 107:

     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?"

Synonyms

• (dancer who removes their clothes): exotic dancer, stripper

Related terms

• ecdysis
• ecdysone
• striptease

Translations

English

Etymology

strip +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??p?(?)/
• (AAVE) IPA^(key): /?k??p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Noun

stripper (plural strippers)

1. Someone who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.
2. A chemical or tool used to remove paint, sheathing, etc. from something.
3. A tool used to strip tubing: to empty it by applying pressure to the outside of the tubing and moving that pressure along the tubing.
4. A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.
5. (gambling) A playing card that has been trimmed so that a cheat can recognise it from the back.

Synonyms

• (dancer): ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler

Related terms

• striptease

Translations

See also

• Striptease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• trippers

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From strippe +? -er

Noun

stripper m (definite singular stripperen, indefinite plural strippere, definite plural stripperne)

1. a stripper (striptease artist)

See also

• strippar (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

Verb

stripper

1. present of strippe

References

• “stripper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “stripper_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Portuguese

Noun

stripper m, f (plural strippers)

1. stripper (one who removes one’s clothes as entertainment)

Related terms

• striptease

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?t?ipe?/, [es?t??i.pe?]

Noun

stripper m or f (plural strippers or stripper)

1. stripper (one who removes one’s clothes as entertainment)

Related terms

• striptease
• estriptís, estriptis