英和和英

語源

From Third World +‎ -ian.

形容詞

Third-Worldian (comparative more Third-Worldian, superlative most Third-Worldian)

1. (very rare) Synonym of Third-Worldish
   • 1982, Bob Doerschuk, “Brent Mydland: Taking Over Keyboards for the Grateful Dead”, in Keyboard‎, volume 8, page 8:

     The mortality rate of the most successful groups is third-worldian in scope, and many of those bands that do last for more than a few years disappear nonetheless from history, dispatched by the public's fickle whims

   • 2004, Jim Kelley (editor), Tales from the Teamhouse, True Special Forces Stories, page 349:

     My team had Charlie Mello's open stake truck, so we looked especially like Third Worldian migrant labourers. However, the scuba team had a van, and that's how the dog got killed.

   • 2020, Abdulgawad Elnady, Perspectives on the Contemporary Novel:

     At the airport he insults Sumra his wife who has just come back from the Sudan by disparagingly designating her as third-worldian: You look like something fresh out of the Third World', he said and I let myself feel hurt, glancing downwards so that he would not see the look in my eyes.

名詞

Third-Worldian (plural Third-Worldians)

1. (very rare) One who is from the Third World.
   • 1982, Erwin Atwood, Sharon Murphy, Stuart J. Bullion, International Perspectives on News, page 148:

     Third Worldians, rich and poor, capitalists and Communists alike.

   • 1993 October 7, Hans Peter Verne, “Refugees!”, in eunet.jokes‎ (Usenet):

     Your joke reminded me of this one. Originally told me about a pakistani, but most any third-worldian will do...

   • 2006, Matthew Lasar, Uneasy Listening, Pacifica Radio's Civil War, page 125:

     According to him, after their meeting, Pritchard cancelled further Third World programming until negotiations regarding the department had been settled. Unfortunately, he didn't tell the Third Worldians.

   • 2012 December 10, Mike Painter, “OT: Maya”, in talk.origins‎ (Usenet):

     You third worldians (according to the wisdom of Patrick) break the wrong end of the egg