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draadsitter

draadsitter noun: a fence sitter.

Noun

draadsitter (plural draadsitters)

  1. (South Africa) A fence sitter.
    • Silas Nkanunu - vice President under Luyt, last week was the only time he stood up to Luyt and that was when he was sure of Luyt's demise, in my opinion a bit of a 'draadsitter'1998 May 13, news.iop.co.za, “SARFU”, in rec.sport.rugby.union (Usenet)
    • It is now very un-PC to attribute this comment to Humpty-Dumpty, who, as we all know, was male, white and middle-aged. And the only proof that he wasn't an Afrikaans pale male is the fact that he was a wall-sitter instead of a draadsitter.2000 December 28, Ron McGregor, “Re: Who said what?”, in soc.culture.zimbabwe (Usenet)

Forms of draadsitter

pluraldraadsitters

Origin of draadsitter

From Afrikaans draadsitter, from draad (“wire, fence”) + sitter (“sitter”), probably a calque of English fence sitter.

Questions about draadsitter

What does draadsitter mean?
Draadsitter means a fence sitter.
What part of speech is draadsitter?
Draadsitter is a noun.
What is the plural of draadsitter?
The plural of draadsitter is draadsitters.

Words near draadsitter in the dictionary

  1. dr. wt.
  2. Dr.DES.
  3. Dr.Sc.
  4. DRA
  5. Draa
  6. draadsitter
  7. draadsitters
  8. DRaaS
  9. draatsi
  10. drab
  11. drabbed

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