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单词 culchad
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culchadadj.

Brit. /ˈkʌltʃəd/, U.S. /ˈkəltʃəd/
Forms:

α. 1800s cultchurd, 1800s– culchad, 1800s– culcha'd, 1900s– culchered, 1900s– cultcha'd, 1900s– cultchad, 1900s– cultchered, 1900s– cultchured, 1900s– cultyured.

β. 1800s– kulcherd, 1900s– kulchad, 1900s– kulchered, 1900s– kultcha'd, 1900s– kultchad, 1900s– kultchered, 1900s– kultchured, 1900s– kultured, 2000s– kultyured.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: cultured adj.
Etymology: Partly representing a regional, affected,or colloquial pronunciation of cultured adj., and partly showing a respelling of cultured adj. reflecting hostility to the concept denoted or to the usage of a particular person or group. Compare culcha n. and discussion at that entry.
humorous or ironic.
‘Cultured’, esp. in an affected or pretentious way.
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1878 Daily Constit. (Atlanta, Georgia) 2 May Compared with the people of the culcha'd..north, those of the south no doubt rate as barbarians.
1884 Lincoln (Nebraska) State Jrnl. 2 Dec. 2/1 The boys lost their temper and abused the umpire... This is a heavy blow at ‘culchad’ foot ball.
1929 J. Galsworthy Exiled 1 Quate! 'Ow culchad! Hairs and grices!
1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood iv. i. 324 He likes treading out music with a pianola, for example, to the great disdain of the culchad Trotsky.
1999 Seattle Weekly (Nexis) 29 Apr. 54 Those of us back in the states have to listen to endless tales of how ‘kultcha'd’ our friends became while abroad.
2006 Daily News (Los Angeles) (Nexis) 9 Feb. s1 Forgive me for trotting out the obvious old-movie reference, but this is the way I demonstrate how culchered I am.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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