groupuscule
/ˈɡruːpəˌskjuːl
/noun
A political or religious splinter group.It was rather a grouping in the sense of Charles Fourier's socialist cells or groupuscules, based, as Breton insisted, on the idea that all passions are good....
- The 1970s seemed to be the age of the groupuscules, the tiny, fissiparous radical activist groups which spread across Western Europe.
- He will be comfortable with his citation on the blogrolls of various right-wing groupuscules and assorted reactionary ranters.
Origin
1960s: from French, diminutive of groupe 'group'.
- West Ridinger
- West Roxbury
- West Saxon
- West Seneca
- West Side
- West Sider
- west-south-west
- west-south-westerly
- west-south-westward
- west-south-westwards
- West Sussex
- westvale
- West Valley City
- West Virginia
- West Virginian
- westward
- westwardly
- westwardmost
- westward position
- westwards
- West Warwick
- west wind
- west-windy
- West Wing
- Westwood