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cultus
adjective
worthless, bad, useless, insignificant US, 1851
From the Chinook trading jargon.- “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 BC side. — Alberta Historical Review, p. 14/2, 1962
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