frondeur

noun

fron·​deur frōⁿ-ˈdər 

: rebel, malcontent

Examples of frondeur in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At the end of January, Valls was defeated in the Socialist Party race by Benoît Hamon, a dapper frondeur, a member of a rebel faction. —Elisabeth Zerofsky, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2017

Word History

Etymology

French, literally, slinger, participant in a 17th century revolt in which the rebels were compared to schoolboys using slings only when the teacher was not looking

First Known Use

1798, in the meaning defined above