soixante-huitard
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French soixante-huitard (“sixty-eighter”).
Noun
soixante-huitard (plural soixante-huitards)
- (historical) Someone who took part in, or otherwise supported, the civil unrest in France in May 1968, characterised by student protests and widespread strikes.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 92:
- ‘Those clochards in Cannes, mostly old soixante-huitards. They see a tribute to modern industrial genius and can't resist giving it a swift kick.’
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 92:
- (loosely) A fierce social activist or protester.
- 2012, Jonathan Rée, The Guardian, 26 Oct 2012:
- As far as he is concerned, the institutions that once made Britain great – from parliament to the ancient seats of learning, from monarchy and the common law to the Church of England – have all been hollowed out and subverted by cynical soixante-huitards.
- 2012, Jonathan Rée, The Guardian, 26 Oct 2012:
French
Etymology
From soixante-huit + -ard, after quarante-huitard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swa.sɑ̃.tɥi.taʁ/
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Noun
soixante-huitard m (plural soixante-huitards)
- (colloquial) soixante-huitard
Further reading
- “soixante-huitard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.