mau-mauer
English
Etymology
mau-mau + -er
Noun
mau-mauer (plural mau-mauers)
- One who agitates for change; rabble rouser.
- 1974, Chicago Journalism Review - Volume 7, page 40:
- The successful mau-mauer knows that differences in treatment on the job based on sex are illegal. The sophisticated mau-mouer must organize women to seek representation in both management and union decision-making.
- 1984, Michael Bernick, The Dreams of Jobs:
- There was another mau-mauer named Chaser. Chaser was the central character in Wolfe's essay, the supreme mau-mauer, the sweetest talking, smoothest flowing operator.
- 2013, Katherine Giuffre, Communities and Networks:
- Mau-mauers know that the lack of density between groups means that there is an opportunity to use duplicity to their own advantage.