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cultus

[< Chinook Jargon kultus < Chinook]

West Coast

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

worthless, insignificant, useless, bad.

Quotations

1849

[Idle talk . . . Kaltash wa-wa.]

1904

Oh! your companion is a "cultus" man, while I know that you are a chief.

1948

Mary wasn't letting any cultus white man put anything like this over on her. . . .

1962

"Bad medicine," "chaffy," "snide," "jim-crow," and "pizen," are applied to anything worthless on the Eastern slope of the Rockies while "cultus"--a Chinook Indian word--is most frequently employed with like significance upon the B.C. side.