soixante-huitard
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French soixante-huitard (literally “sixty-eighter”).
Noun edit
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, published 2011, page 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.’
- (by extension, loosely) A fierce social activist or protester.
- 2012 October 26, Jonathan Rée, “The War We Never Fought by Peter Hitchens – review”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- 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.
French edit
Etymology edit
From soixante-huit + -ard, after quarante-huitard.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
soixante-huitard m (plural soixante-huitards)
- (colloquial) soixante-huitard
- 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs[2], Gallimard, →ISBN, page 35:
- Après tout, les soixante-huitards ont commencé par faire la révolution, puis ils sont entrés dans la pub — moi, je voulais faire l’inverse.
- After all, the soixante-huitards started out as revolutionaries, then they went into advertising – I wanted to do the opposite.
Further reading edit
- “soixante-huitard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.