This week’s theme
Shoes

This week’s words
suede-shoed
saboteur
well-heeled
sneakernet
boot-faced

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(sab-uh-TUHR)

MEANING:

noun: One who disrupts, damages, or destroys, especially in an underhanded manner.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French saboter (to walk noisily, to botch), from sabot (wooden shoe). Earliest documented use: 1921.

NOTES:

The popular story of disgruntled workers throwing their sabots into the machinery to jam it is not supported by evidence. Rather, it’s that the workers typically wore sabots.

USAGE:

“Yes, this saboteur has escalated the attacks.”
Case Lane; The Origin Point; Clane Media Books; 2016.

See more usage examples of saboteur in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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