munitionette
/mjʊnɪʃəˈnɛt/
munitionette means A female worker in a munitions factory, especially during the First World War. It carries an Arena rating of 1266, earned across 46 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, munitionette ranks #2,392 of 17,127 for Most Vivid Words, #3,621 of 17,149 for Most Exacting Words, #4,272 of 17,163 for Funniest Words, #5,183 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words.
munitionette is pronounced /mjʊnɪʃəˈnɛt/.
Why “munitionette” is a great word
MUNITIONETTE — [Noun] A female worker in a munitions factory, especially during the First World War. From munition (from Latin mūnītiō, "fortification, defense, military stores") + the suffix -ette (diminutive and feminine suffix). Unlike a "munitioneer" (a more general, gender-neutral term for any munitions worker) or a "land girl" (a female agricultural laborer), the munitionette was defined by the grim, industrialized interior of the arsenal. She is the rhythmic thunder of presses stamping brass, the ghostly pallor of TNT-stained skin, and the collective, deafened silence of a shift walking home—a temporary citizenship forged in the very machinery meant to end lives.
Etymology
From munition + -ette.
noun
- A female worker in a munitions factory, especially during the First World War.e.g.“Since they all had a slightly yellow tinge to their skin, he assumed they were munitions workers. Munitionettes, as the newspapers liked to call them.” — 1991, Pat Barker, Regeneration (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 119:
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