guerrilla

[ guh-ril-uh ]

nounbushfighter

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Word Origin & History

"fighter in an irregular, independent armed force," 1809, from Spanish guerrilla "body of skirmishers, skirmishing warfare," literally "little war," diminutive of guerra "war," from a Germanic source (cf. Old High German werra "strife, conflict, war;" see war). Figurative use by 1861. As an adjective from 1811. Acquired by English during the Peninsular War (1808-1814); purists failed in their attempt to keep this word restricted to "irregular warfare" and prevent it taking on the sense properly belonging to guerrillero "guerrilla fighter."

Example Sentences forguerrilla

There was no excuse ever attempted; no pretense that he was a guerrilla.

Then he felt that there would be no use in keeping the guerrilla at the plantation.

"I mean all of yer are prisoners, thet's wot I mean," drawled the guerrilla.

Yes, Ben; he had me taken from the stable, where I had gone to watch that guerrilla.

With Stephanie she was generally in a state of guerrilla warfare.

But epidemics are only the guerrilla attacks of the general enemy.

He dug his pole into the water as if he were impaling a guerrilla on it.

It was not the guerrilla that was uttering that cry; it was the yell of the Indian warrior.

The moon was behind us, for the guerrilla was on the western side of the mesa.

The season, too, was winter, when a guerrilla was almost impracticable.

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