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First-Worldish en · ADJ

Etymology

From First World + -ish.

Meanings

1. (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of a First World country.
   • Now tell me what's so first-worldish about a faceless mound of earth lying sprinkled flat, somewhere on the face of Mother earth? 2002, Safi Abdi, A Mighty Collision Of Two Worlds, page 121:
   • I don't think this is much of an issue. Brazil has extremely high crime rates in Rio and Sao Paulo probably matching some of RSA's worst. However, I don't think any visitors will be staying in the slums of Sao Paulo or the townships in South Africa where the violence is really out of hand. Middle-income nations such as Brazil and South Africa have both their first-worldish and third-worldian parts. And even so, the World Cups have been held in many statistically more violent areas such as Mexico, USA, South America, without greater incidence of violence than ones in Western Europe. 2004 May 17, Alex Mizuki, “2010 World Cup Goes to South Africa”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):
   • While it would be foolish - not to say first-worldish - to claim post-colonial theory as part of the Marxist tradition, the importance of Marxism for such influential figures as Gayatry Chakravorty Spivak (1988) is indisputable. 1999, John J. Peradotto, Contextualizing Classics, Ideology, Performance, Dialogue, page 19:
   • Some of the above group belongings are very first-worldish – you will know the relevant groupings to choose for your students. 1995, Mario Rinvolucri, Paul Davis, More Grammar Games, Cognitive, Affective and Movement Activities for EFL Students, page 64:

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Third-Worldish