freedumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiː.dʌm/
ipa: /ˈfɹiː.dəm/
homophone: freedom (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: free-dumb
Etymology: Blend of freedom + dumb. First use appears c. 1856 as free-dumb.
Senses: examples: text: He lookt rather strocked, an he says: “Aint a man goin to hav no freedumb of speech?” I told him, “Of course, you’ll hav all the freedumb of speech you want—but you came up here from Connettycut an got a clerkship becaus you couldn’t get inter office at home, an you didn’t want ter bone down ter hard work.[…]”
ref: 1866 March 18, Tranquill [pseudonym], “Keep Cool! Keep Cool! Keep Cool!”, in S[imon] P[arker] Hanscom, editor, Daily National Republican, volume VI, number 90, Washington, D.C.: W[illiam] J. Murtagh & Co., front page, column 4:
text: Liberty is great. Even a man that can’t talk, loves his freedumb.
ref: 1918 November 11, C. Green, “Wavelets from the Deep”, in M. F. Hetherington, editor, The Lakeland Evening Telegram, number 9, Lakeland, Fla., page [4], column 2:
text: Otherwise they retain their freedom or independence at the expense of being unable to express their ideas in an ordered manner. "Freedumb" versus Freedom!
ref: 1946, The University of Michigan (publisher), Rubber Journal - Volumes 110-111, page 129:
text: We hear the cry freedom, freedom, on every side, but it seems some men spell it freedumb.
ref: 1964, Pennsylvania Home Rule Association (contributor), Pennsylvania Road Builder - Volumes 37-38, page 5:
text: ... all but the local hill-habitators who are all out and bigod they won't have any more cow if they ain't got freedumb to leave tubercles in the milk.
ref: 1971, Ezra Pound, The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941, page 265:
text: But whoever claims vociferously and advocates 100% freedom within themselves know that it is not so and is only 100% 'FREEDUMB'
ref: 1980, Institute of Traditional Cultures, Bulletin, page 83:
text: ... Doob, following Pound's script, gives it as 'Freedumb Forum'.
ref: 1992, Jacqueline Kaye, Ezra Pound and America, page 27:
text: The freedom for free speech is rapidly becoming freedumb on all four feet.
ref: 2000, Norma E. Leary, For God's Sake, page 59:
text: But justice takes a stand / And releases us from the turmoil, / Freedumb rings from the hand / But not from the soil
ref: 2010, Maxine Y. Anderson, My Heart Aches So My Mind Bleeds - A Collection of Poetry, page 61:
text: But freedumb also tells us that we can do whatever we like, because we're free to ignore those who think they know better.
ref: 2011, Laura Penny, More Money Than Brains: Why School Sucks, College is Crap, & Idiots Think They're Right:
text: My first day of terrifying, amazing freedumb flew by in a stupor.
ref: 2016, Lucy Woodhull, 667 Ways to F*ck Up My Life:
text: The Mythos Trinity - free-market capitalism, Judaeo-Christianity, and freedumb and dumbocracy - is a ferociously difficult system to overthrow because it appeals so powerfully to so many people.
ref: 2018, Joe Dixon, The Intelligence Wars: Logos Versus Mythos:
text: Freedom or freedumb? Which do you choose?
ref: 2020, Mia Miata, The Goddess Code - Goddess in Womanifestation:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Stupidity masquerading as love of freedom; an assertion of one's personal liberty which is perceived to be unreasonable or motivated by stupidity.