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sloganeer en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *slowgʰos
Proto-Celtic *slougos
Old Irish slóg
Middle Irish slúag
Scottish Gaelic sluagh
Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥der.
Proto-Celtic *-sman
Proto-Celtic *garsmander.
Old Irish gairm
Scottish Gaelic gairm
Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairmbor.
English sloggorne
English slughorne
English slughorn
English slogan
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Middle French -ierder.
English -eer
English sloganeer
From slogan + -eer. US origin (1922), popularized by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Meanings
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Someone who makes and spreads slogans.
As a sloganeer too, he overspent his voice shouting slogans during demonstrations and he eventually lost it.
2012 January 17, Aparajita De, Amrita Ghosh, Ujjwal Jana, Subaltern Vision, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:
Forms
wikipedia: Franklin D. Roosevelt
sloganeer en · VERB
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *slowgʰos
Proto-Celtic *slougos
Old Irish slóg
Middle Irish slúag
Scottish Gaelic sluagh
Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥der.
Proto-Celtic *-sman
Proto-Celtic *garsmander.
Old Irish gairm
Scottish Gaelic gairm
Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairmbor.
English sloggorne
English slughorne
English slughorn
English slogan
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Middle French -ierder.
English -eer
English sloganeer
From slogan + -eer. US origin (1922), popularized by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Meanings
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To make and disseminate slogans; often contrasted with substantive debate.
At such times, the nuanced and expert advice of what they call the rational center — career professionals, scholars, analysts and others working in government and at universities and think tanks — is sidelined or ignored, while emotional sloganeering is amplified by 24/7 cable news and Internet chatter that prize raucous confrontations between fervent avatars of the right and the left.
2007 February 20, Michiko Kakutani, “The Silence of the Rational Center”, in New York Times:
Forms
wikipedia: Franklin D. Roosevelt