ecdysiast
pronunciation
How to pronounce ecdysiast in British English:
UK [ek'dɪzɪæst]
How to pronounce ecdysiast in American English:
US [ek'dɪzɪæst]
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- Noun:
- a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
Word Origin
- ecdysiast (n.)
- H.L. Mencken's invented proper word for "strip-tease artist," 1940, from Greek ekdysis "a stripping or casting off" (used scientifically in English from mid-19c. with reference to serpents shedding skin and molting birds or crustacea), from ekdyein "to put off one's clothes, take off, strip off" (contrasted with endyo "to put on"), from ek (see ex-) + dyein "to enter, to put on."