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freedumb

/ˈfɹiː.dʌm/

freedumb noun: stupidity masquerading as love of freedom; an assertion of one's personal liberty which is perceived to be unreasonable or motivated by stupidity.

Noun

freedumb (uncountable)

  1. (US, derogatory, slang) Stupidity masquerading as love of freedom; an assertion of one's personal liberty which is perceived to be unreasonable or motivated by stupidity.
    • He lookt rather strocked, an he says: “Aint a man goin to hav no freedumb of speech?” I told him, “Of course, you’ll hav all the freedumb of speech you want—but you came up here from Connettycut an got a clerkship becaus you couldn’t get inter office at home, an you didn’t want ter bone down ter...1866 March 18, Tranquill [pseudonym], “Keep Cool! Keep Cool! Keep Cool!”, in S[imon] P[arker] Hanscom, editor, Daily National Republican, volume VI, number 90, Washington, D.C.: W[illiam] J. Murtagh...
    • Liberty is great. Even a man that can’t talk, loves his freedumb.1918 November 11, C. Green, “Wavelets from the Deep”, in M. F. Hetherington, editor, The Lakeland Evening Telegram, number 9, Lakeland, Fla., page [4], column 2

Examples of freedumb in a sentence

  • We hear the cry freedom, freedom, on every side, but it seems some men spell it freedumb.1964, Pennsylvania Home Rule Association (contributor), Pennsylvania Road Builder - Volumes 37-38, page 5:
  • ... all but the local hill-habitators who are all out and bigod they won't have any more cow if they ain't got freedumb to leave tubercles in the milk.1971, Ezra Pound, The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941, page 265:
  • But whoever claims vociferously and advocates 100% freedom within themselves know that it is not so and is only 100% 'FREEDUMB'1980, Institute of Traditional Cultures, Bulletin, page 83:
  • Doob, following Pound's script, gives it as 'Freedumb Forum'.1992, Jacqueline Kaye, Ezra Pound and America, page 27:

Forms of freedumb

alternative formfree-dumb

Origin of freedumb

Blend of freedom + dumb. First use appears c. 1856 as free-dumb.

Questions about freedumb

What does freedumb mean?
Freedumb means stupidity masquerading as love of freedom; an assertion of one's personal liberty which is perceived to be unreasonable or motivated by stupidity.
How do you use freedumb in a sentence?
We hear the cry freedom, freedom, on every side, but it seems some men spell it freedumb.
What part of speech is freedumb?
Freedumb is a noun.
How do you pronounce freedumb?
Freedumb is pronounced /ˈfɹiː.dʌm/.

Words near freedumb in the dictionary

  1. freedpeople
  2. freedperson
  3. freedpersons
  4. freedstool
  5. freedstools
  6. freedumb
  7. freedwoman
  8. freedwomen
  9. freeer
  10. freeest
  11. freefall

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