doomsteader
English
editEtymology
editBlend of doom + homesteader
Noun
editdoomsteader (plural doomsteaders)
- A survivalist; one who engages in doomsteading.
- 2009, “Practical Doomsteading: Summer Kitchen.”, in The Old Horseman's Blog[1]:
- Doomsteaders may do well to revive the common practice from the pre-Cornucopian South of having a kitchen separate from the main house.
- 2015 February 26, Dan Boone, “Growing Jujubes from seed (and general Jujube feedback)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[2]:
- You might call him a doomsteader; he's burrowed into his land like a tick, he's got earthworks and ponds and goats and hugels and trees from Stark Brothers.
- 2015 June 27, Reverse Engineer, “Boomer Doomers”, in Doomstead Diner[3]:
- My first internet communications and discussion on Doom concepts came on the Peak Oil Forum in 2008-2009, and there I ran into the whole panoply of Doomer Archetypes, Survivalists, Nazi Eugenecists, Permaculturists and of course the Doomsteaders, which is where the Doomstead Diner title for this Blog comes from.
- 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 134:
- 'Doomsteading,' said Sir Owen. 'That's what they call it. Bunking down for the end of the world. They're doomsteaders, that's the word.'