ecdysiast vs striptease what difference
what is difference between ecdysiast and striptease
English
Etymology
Coined by H. L. Mencken from ecdysis (on the model of enthusiast etc.).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛkˈdɪz.i.æst/
Noun
ecdysiast (plural ecdysiasts)
- An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper.
- 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don’t Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, p. 79:
- I had never seen an ecdysiast before; toward the end she was wearing nothing but seven beads, four of them sweat.
- 2004, Chrysti the Wordsmith, Verbivore’s Feast: A Banquet of Word and Phrase Origins, Farcountry Press, p. 107:
- However, the Queen of Ecdysiasts, Gypsy Rose Lee, was not amused. In a 1940 interview, she leveled her guns against Mencken: “Ecdysiast, he calls me! Why, the man… has been reading books! Dictionaries! We don’t wear feathers and molt them off… What does he know about stripping?”
- 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don’t Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, p. 79:
Synonyms
- (dancer who removes their clothes): exotic dancer, stripper
Related terms
- ecdysis
- ecdysone
- striptease
Translations
English
Etymology
From strip + tease.
Pronunciation
Noun
striptease (plural stripteases)
- The act of slowly taking off one’s clothes to sexually arouse the viewer, often accompanied by music and in exchange for money.
Synonyms
- dance of the seven veils, fan dance
Descendants
Translations
Verb
striptease (third-person singular simple present stripteases, present participle stripteasing, simple past and past participle stripteased)
- (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
Related terms
- strip
- stripper
Translations
Anagrams
- tapestries
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English striptease.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstripˌtiːs/, [ˈs̠t̪ripˌt̪iːs̠]
- Syllabification: strip‧tease
Noun
striptease
- striptease (act or show)
Usage notes
There’s no standard declension to this term, the one presented in the table is only one possibility. It might be disputed on the basis that the spelling /ˈst̪ript̪iːs/ would be pronounced with front vowel harmony (ä’s instead of a’s), but this is the way that seems to be mostly used in the printed sources available. In fact, in this model the inflected forms are written as if the word were pronounced as /ˈst̪ripˑt̪eˑaˑse/, which is hardly ever used in speech. When inflected, the word striptease is sometimes substituted in text with striptease-tanssi, striptease-esitys etc. in order to make the word inflectable as a regular word. Another possibility to avoid inflection problems is to use the terms strippaus or strippi for the act.
Declension
Derived terms
French
Etymology
From English striptease.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stʁip.tiz/
Noun
striptease m (plural stripteases)
- striptease
Derived terms
- stripteaseur, stripteaseuse
Portuguese
Etymology
From English striptease.
Noun
striptease m (plural stripteases)
- striptease (act of slowly taking off one’s clothes to sexually arouse the viewer)
- Synonym: strip
Spanish
Alternative forms
- estriptis, estriptís
Etymology
Borrowed from English striptease.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈtɾiptis/, [esˈt̪ɾip.t̪is]
Noun
striptease m (plural stripteases)
- striptease
Further reading
- “striptease” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.