frondeur

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Fron=deur

CIDE DICTIONARY

frondeur, n. [F.].

 A member of the Fronde.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

frondeur, n. a political rebel.

Etymology

F, = slinger, applied to a party (the Fronde) rebelling during the minority of Louis XIV of France

THESAURUS

frondeur

agitator, anarch, anarchist, belittler, bellyacher, brawler, captious critic, carper, caviler, censor, censurer, common scold, complainant, complainer, crab, crank, critic, criticizer, croaker, extremist, faultfinder, griper, grouch, grouser, growler, grumbler, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, kicker, kvetch, malcontent, maverick, momus, murmurer, mutineer, mutterer, nitpicker, nonconformist, pettifogger, querulous person, quibbler, reactionary, reactionist, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, scold, smellfungus, sorehead, subversive, traitor, whiner

ROGET THESAURUS

frondeur

Disobedience

N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.

Detractor

N detractor, reprover, censor, censurer, cynic, critic, caviler, carper, word-catcher, frondeur, barracker, defamer, backbiter, slanderer, Sir Benjamin Backbite, lampooner, satirist, traducer, libeler, calumniator, dawplucker, Thersites, Zoilus, good-natured friend, reviler, vituperator, castigator, shrew, muckraker, disapprover, laudator temporis acti, black-mouthed, abusive.