ecdysiastn.
/ɛkˈdɪzɪast/, U.S. /ɛkˈdiziəst/ A strip-teaser. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease artist
teaser1929
stripper1930
strip-teaser1930
strippeuse1939
ecdysiast1940
strip-teaseuse1941
peeler1942
stripteuse1942
strip-tease artist1947
exotic1954
split beaver1972
1940 H. L. Mencken Let. 5 Apr. in Amer. Lang. (1945) Suppl. I. vi. vi. 585 It might be a good idea to relate strip-teasing in some way..to the associated zoölogical phenomenon of molting... A resort to the scientific name for molting, which is ecdysis, produces both ecdysist and ecdysiast.
1958 Time 7 July 44/1 Is it possible for a nightclub to lose money with famed Ecdysiast Sherry Britton stripping to bugle beads and pearls?
Derivatives
ecˈdysiasm n. the activity or occupation of strip-teasing.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease
girl show1841
strip1928
teaser1929
strip-tease1936
strip-teasing1937
ecdysiasm1947
full monty1997
1947 I. J. C. Brown Say Word 50 And there we can leave the problems and pride of ecdysiasm.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 611/2 As happily sustained a piece of autobiographical ecdysiasm as we remember.
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