Regina Tuyen Le
2021-12-26 08:12
Duck-squeezer American noun phrase informal slang
A pejorative word for someone who is an environmentalist, and deeply concerned about conservation, particularly the rescue of oil-splattered ducks.
The duck-squeezers were protesting at the dam's construction site.
It doesn't concern me that they refer to me as a duck-squeezer.
If you describe someone as prim and proper, they have very traditional, morally conservative beliefs and behavior.
Used to refer to an ardent environmentalist in an insulting way
Someone who is pretentious and stuffy.
1. Used to describe someone who is old-fashioned or conservative
2. Used to refer to a person whose ideas and attitudes are old-fashioned
This term derives from Neal Town Stephenson's novel Zodiac published in 1988.
Do you see anything wrong?
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