groupuscule
nounUK /ˈɡɹuːpəˌskjuːl/
Etymology Borrowed from French groupuscule.
1
A small political group, especially of an extremist faction.
- Thus, by the time that I enrolled as an “undergraduate” at Balliol College, Oxford, I was already a militant “student” member of the International Socialist groupuscule, as such factions were to become known after the momentously imminent events in France.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 87:
- Derived terms
- groupuscular
- Related terms
- splinter group