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▪ I. fundie
var. of found v.5 (In quot. trans. = to benumb.)
1591Jas. I. tr. Du Bartas' Furies 240 The Moone doth deaze and fundie him, Her brother rosts him quite.
▪ II. fundie, n. and a. colloq.
Brit. |ˈfʌndi|, U.S. |ˈfəndi|
Plural fundis, fundies
Forms: 19– fundi, 19– Fundie, 19– fundie, 19– fundy
[‹ fund- (in fundamentalist n. at fundamentalism n. Derivatives) + -y suffix6. With sense A. 2 compare fundi n.2]
A. n.
1. A religious fundamentalist, esp. an evangelical Christian.
1975Christian Cent. 26 Mar. 319, I became a Total Woman in the Lord... We fundies can have fun in our undies. 1988N.Y. Times 7 Mar. a19/1 But the Fundies are not a serious political force and their current hero is not a serious political candidate. 1993Economist (Nexis) 23 Jan. 16 Mr Hussein is no friend of fundies. He..presides over a secular party, and uses appeals to Islam cynically to promote his claim to the leadership of the entire Arab world. 1998D. Danvers Circuit of Heaven 33 A fundie came down the aisle... The tracts in her hand read Onward Christian soldiers! Satan is winning the war!
2. Sc. Polit. A fervent Scottish nationalist, esp. a member of a faction within the Scottish National Party which advocates total independence from the United Kingdom.
1995Scotl. on Sunday 5 Feb. 6/8 But the fundies are not done yet. Battle lines are now drawn for..March's SNP national council. 2000Times (Nexis) 16 Feb. The 49-year-old is a leading fundamentalist, or ‘fundie’, who has played a powerful role as vice-convener for policy within the party. 2003Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 29 Jan. The so-called ‘fundies’ lost the battle for supremacy when..a gradualist..succeeded with two-thirds of the party vote.
B. adj. (chiefly attrib.). Designating or relating to a fundie or fundies; fundamentalist; (Sc. Polit.) fervently nationalist.
1985Re: Black replies (or tries To) in net.religion (Usenet newsgroup) 13 Mar. Everything you said is false. Where did you hear it, from your anti-Semitic fundie friends? 1995Scotl. on Sunday 5 Feb. 6/7 Gradualism may have been on the books as party policy, but it was forgotten, submerged in a fundamentalist—or ‘fundie’—tide. 2002Spectator (Nexis) 23 Nov. 28 So is Turkey, our NATO ally, going Fundie on us? |