Meaning of echt | Babel Free

Definitions

Proper, real, genuine, true to type.

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

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

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