nazi
nazi Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, its members, its totalitarian regime, or its ideology.
"The museum features an extensive archive of documents from the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation."
• noun
A member or supporter of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler, or a modern adherent of its fascist, white supremacist, and antisemitic ideology.
"Historians have extensively documented how the Nazis consolidated power in Germany during the 1930s."
A person who is perceived as fanatically strict, domineering, or inflexible in enforcing rules or standards in a particular area (used derisively).
"He admits to being a bit of a grammar nazi when proofreading his students' essays."
Word Nuance & Usage
Capitalized as 'Nazi' when referring to the historical German political party or its neo-Nazi ideological successors; sometimes lowercased in informal usage when used figuratively for a petty autocrat (e.g., 'grammar nazi'), though this colloquialism is often considered insensitive in formal contexts.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 1930s from German Nazi, aclipped and respelled form of Nationalsozialist ('National Socialist'), influenced by the phonetic pronunciation of the first two syllables and an older German colloquialism Nazi (short for Ignaz), meaning a foolish or clumsy person.
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