echt

comparative more echt · superlative most echt

1. Proper, real, genuine, true to type.

   An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken[…].

   2009 January 18, Ross Douthat, “When Buckley Met Reagan”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021

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   I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.

   1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, page 8

   And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide.

   2002 March 27, Buck Turgidson, “Heebetudinous”, in alt.california (Usenet)

1. A small village at a crossroads in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref SJ7305).
2. A town in Echt-Susteren municipality, Limburg province, Netherlands.