DCHP-2
cultus [< Chinook Jargon kultus < Chinook] West Coast DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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adj.
worthless, insignificant, useless, bad.
- 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.
- 1849 [Idle talk . . . Kaltash wa-wa.]