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单词 culcha
释义

culchan.

Brit. /ˈkʌltʃə/, U.S. /ˈkəltʃə/
Forms:

α. 1800s– culcha, 1800s– culcher, 1900s– culchah, 1900s– cultcha, 1900s– cultchah, 1900s– cultyer, 1900s– cultyure.

β. 1900s– kulcha, 1900s– kulchah, 1900s– kulcher, 1900s– kultcha, 1900s– kultchah, 1900s– kultcher, 1900s– kulture, 1900s– kultyur, 1900s– kultyure.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: culture n.
Etymology: Partly representing a regional, affected, or colloquial pronunciation of culture n., and partly showing a respelling of culture n. reflecting hostility to the concept denoted or to the usage of a particular person or group. Compare culchad adj.In β. forms partly after German Kultur: compare kultur n. and discussion at culture n. Compare also kulchur n.
humorous or ironic.
‘Culture’ or cultural pursuits, variously regarded as pretentious, exotic, alien, worthless, etc.
ΚΠ
1872 D. R. Locke Struggles of Petroleum 564 Will the Corners, I ask, be a place for gentlemen uv pride and culcher? Nay.
1901 G. Frankau Eton Echoes 39 With a pretty nasty bump–then he realized That among an Eton set ‘Cultchah’ wasn't prized.
1904 Decatur (Illinois) Herald 23 Feb. 4/7 To have such a publication in the boasted center of ‘culchah’ will give some of these down-easters a severe shock.
1949 J. H. Burns Lucifer with Bk. iii. 194 Do we get Kultchah or do we not? Put on some Puccini.
1959 Listener 15 Jan. 128/2 Italian Bouquet, an Epicurean Tour of Italy..an American hotchpotch of culcher and food.
1982 Times 1 Feb. 8/6 Years of promoting the Aussie ‘culcha,’ as the Barry Humphries creation pronounces it, seem to have paid off.
2004 New Statesman 6 Sept. 9/2 Our one concern is that rural secondary education seems a bit lethargic... With this in mind, I took them for some ‘culcha’ to the National Portrait Gallery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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