Etymology

sloganeer

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Today it means: Someone who makes and spreads slogans. Full definition →

English slogan ← Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm ← Old Irish gairm
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*slowgʰos
  2. Proto-Celtic*slougos
  3. Old Irishslóg
  4. Middle Irishslúag
  5. Scottish Gaelicsluagh
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ǵeh₂r-
  7. Proto-Celtic*garsman
  8. Old Irishgairm
  9. Scottish Gaelicgairm
  10. Scottish Gaelicsluagh-ghairm
  11. Englishsloggorne
  12. Englishslughorne
  13. Englishslughorn
  14. Englishslogan
  15. English todaysloganeer

From slogan + -eer. US origin (1922), popularized by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.