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antimasker

noun

Etymology

From anti- + mask + -er. Likely influenced by anti-vaxxer.

  1. derived from *maskā✻
  2. derived from masca
  3. derived from maschera — “mask, disguise”
  4. borrowed from masque — “a covering to hide or protect the face”
  5. formed as antimasker — “anti- + mask + -er”

Definitions

  1. A person who is opposed to the practice or mandate of wearing masks.

    • On one side of the argument was a woman named Claire Newbourne, an anti-masker, a member of a group opposed to the government regulations on Marburg.
    • Beightol, who is the administrator for several Facebook pages where public schools teachers can vent, said educators fall into three categories: vocal pro-maskers, vocal anti-maskers and pro-maskers who stay out of the line of fire.

  2. Alternative form of antimasquer.

    • The antimaskers are not at all concerned in the action; they are led into fill up the intervals with a grotesque kind of merriment, or, their grotesque dances, and then sink into nothing.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for antimasker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA