Vietnikn.adj.
/ˈviːɛtnɪk/ Originally U.S. Chiefly depreciative (now historical).
A. n.
An active opponent of American military involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam (1955–75). Cf. peacenik n.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > peace > pacific character or disposition > [noun] > pacifist in particular instance
pacifico1896
pacificist1907
alternativist1916
absolutist1917
Locarnist1925
peacenik1962
Vietnik1965
1965 Time 22 Oct. 25 a/1 A ragtag collection of unshaven and unscrubbed—they could be called Vietniks—turned out last weekend to promote the most popular new anti-cause.
1965 Life 10 Dec. 35/3 A new breed of Vietnik, if indeed the term could even be applied to this well-dressed, smiling, middle-aged throng.
1966 Wall St. Jrnl. 31 Mar. 18/2 If the Communists believe that draft-card-burners and other Vietniks represent majority American opinion, they are simply misinformed.
1969 T.V. Times (Brisbane) 4 June 6/1 I am opposed to the Vietniks who want us to get out... I saw too many twisted bodies of women and children, mutilated by the Vietcong.
1990 R. Lentz Symbols, News Mags., & Martin Luther King vi. 192 While a source of inspiration to the Vietniks, King was not one of them.
B. adj.
Of or relating to such a person.
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1965 Time 22 Oct. 25 a/1 The Vietnik rallies—which also attracted some tweedy faculty members..—seemed to bear out a Senate Internal Security report issued last week.
1977 Time 18 Apr. 47/2 Sometimes the argument has sounded like a replay of old Vietnik protests.
2008 C. Oglesby Ravens in Storm vi. 101 For a while, the Vietnik decibel count dropped, only to soar up again when it became evident that the course of the war in Vietnam had turned.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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