Third-Worldian
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Third World + -ian.
Adjective
Third-Worldian (comparative more Third-Worldian, superlative most Third-Worldian)
- (very rare) Synonym of Third-Worldish
- 1982, Bob Doerschuk, “Brent Mydland: Taking Over Keyboards for the Grateful Dead”, in Keyboard[1], 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.
Noun
Third-Worldian (plural Third-Worldians)
- (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.
- 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.