The Wonderful World Of Words, 3/22/17
One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red.
--Method Man
DEFINITION:
Noun
A striptease performer
ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:
1850-55
Greek (from ekdysis, "to strip off" "to get out"))
PRONUNCIATION:
[ek-diz-ee-ast]
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SCRABBLE SCORE:
13, but it is not considered an official Scrabble word. Prudes, I say!
USAGE/EXAMPLES:
“I'm an ECDYSIAST.”
“A what?” Zoey said.
“An ECDYSIAST is a stripper who's read H.L. Mencken,” Bart said.
Stacy smiled. “Gee, what do you call a tattoo artist who's read Mencken?” she said. Now she was looking at him like he might be someone worth paying attention to.
"A showoff", he said.
--Risk of Ruin
by Arnold Snyder, 2012
"In large flowing script it read: AlannaLuna, ECDYSIAST Extraordinaire. Belowthe name,insmaller plain print,was an OklahomaCity address, andaphone number. Ecdysiast. That explained thehot pants. And the bosom."
--Mourning Shift: A Tory Bauer Mystery
by Kathleen Taylor, 2012
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