frondeur

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French frondeur.

Noun

frondeur (plural frondeurs)

A political rebel

French

Etymology

From fronde (“sling”) +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fʁɔ̃.dœʁ/
Audio (file)

Noun

frondeur m (plural frondeurs, feminine frondeuse)

slinger (someone who slings or who uses a sling)
(historical) member of the Fronde (civil war in France, 1648–1653)
(by extension) political rebel

Adjective

frondeur (feminine singular frondeuse, masculine plural frondeurs, feminine plural frondeuses)

politically disapproving

Further reading

“frondeur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Fronde (histoire) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

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