单词 | archie bunker |
释义 | Archie Bunkern. North American (colloquial and derogatory). A man whose background, outlook, and behaviour are likened to those of the television character Archie Bunker, esp. a blue-collar worker having (and vehemently expressing) views considered ignorant or bigoted. Also in extended use: a person characterized as having ignorant or bigoted views and a vehement, outspoken manner. Cf. Alf Garnett n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > bigotry, intolerance > [noun] > person bigot1683 intolerant1765 fascist1958 Archie Bunker1971 chauvinist1977 fascista1987 1971 Washington Post 12 Sept. I think the reason the show is popular is that we all know Archie Bunkers. 1985 New Yorker 16 Sept. 28/3 We were missing a sense of popular culture as it was being conveyed to the Archie Bunkers in the United States. 1989 Third Text Summer 17 Mason's shtick is that he plays a bigot—a Jewish version of an Archie Bunker. 1992 N.Y. Times 14 June iv. 1/4 Those Archie Bunkers and their families cheered George C. Wallace when he derided the ‘pointy-headed intellectuals’ who he said ‘couldn't park a bicycle straight’. 2015 New Yorker 19 Oct. 61/2 For all his rants against Jews, Africans, and, above all, the Shia, he remains strangely endearing, a kind of Arab Archie Bunker. 2017 S. Chavkin Mind Stealers 193 The prevailing cry..is for harsher punishment and longer jail sentences for law offenders; and this demand is not confined to the Archie Bunkers who are boiling over with the spirit of vigilantism. Derivatives Archie-ˈBunkerism n. outspokenness, ignorance, or bigotry characteristic of (an) Archie Bunker; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1972 Sat. Rev. 14 Oct. 81/2 The premise of the book seems to be a kind of gridiron Archie Bunkerism, i.e., make the objectionable so outrageous that it becomes (perhaps) funny. 1978 O. E. Klapp Opening & Closing 13 Archie Bunkerism has been on the rise, and its enormous popularity is by no means due merely to its message of the bigot put down. 1981 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 18 Nov. The reaction [to the Rural and Native Housing Program] polarized between heated charges of Archie Bunkerism and denunciations of ‘bleeding-heart liberalism’. 2010 N.Y. Times 5 Nov. c21/4 This comedy about high school a cappella singers has too many exhausted gimmicks in it to work consistently... There are Archie Bunkerisms, thick accents and other overused devices. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1971 |
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