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单词 archie bunker
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Archie Bunkern.

Brit. /ˌɑːtʃɪ ˈbʌŋkə/, U.S. /ˌɑrtʃi ˈbəŋkər/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Archie Bunker.
Etymology: < Archie Bunker, the name of a character in a U.S. television comedy series, All in the Family, representing a poorly educated white blue-collar worker with bigoted views.
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.
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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.
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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).
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