freebooter
英 ['friːbuːtə]
美 ['fributɚ]
freebooter 战争掠夺者翻译荷兰语vrijbuiter, 抢劫，海盗，即free booty, 自由抢劫者。其拼写异体词filibuster用做政治术语，阻碍议案通过者，海盗。
- freebooter
- freebooter: see filibuster
- freebooter (n.)
- 1560s, loan-translation of Dutch vrijbuiter "plunderer, robber," from vrijbuiten "to rob, plunder," from vrijbuit "plunder," literally "free booty," from vrij "free" (see free (adj.)) + buit "booty," from buiten "to exchange or plunder," from Middle Dutch buten, related to Middle Low German bute "exchange" (see booty).
The English word, Danish fribytter, Swedish fribytare, and German Freibeuter were formed on the model of the Dutch word, which is the source of filibuster (q.v.). The back-formed verb freeboot is recorded from 1590s. Related: Freebooting; freebootery.
