| 单词 | culture vulture |
| 释义 | culture vulturenoun Slang.a person with an excessive or pretentious interest in the arts. Origin of culture vultureFirst recorded in 1945–50 Words nearby culture vultureculture medium, culture pattern, culture shock, culture specific syndrome, culture trait, culture vulture, culture war, culturist, culturology, culturomics, cultus Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for culture vultureculture vulture nouninformal a person considered to be excessively, and often pretentiously, interested in the arts Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with culture vultureculture vulture An individual with a consuming or excessive interest in the arts. For example, A relentless culture vulture, she dragged her children to every museum in town. This slangy term may have been originated by Ogden Nash, who wrote: “There is a vulture Who circles above The carcass of culture” (Free Wheeling, 1931). [1940s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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