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charidee
noun
charity seen as a self-serving, publicity-seeking enterprise UK
Comedians Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse captured this heavily ironic mid-Atlantic pronunciation for the comic caricatures Smashie and Nicey.- He’s more arsed [bothered] about fucking Fun Runs and that, playing golf with his Brookie [Brookside, a soap opera] B-list cronies, doing his bit for charidee and that. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 4, 2001
- Bought a swanky house for your parents and gave a hefty donation to a children’s charidee. — Ministry, p. 42, January 2002
- [B]uilder, Brian Walker, is to walk from Land’s End to John o’Groats carrying a three-stone pine door–for charidee, natch. — Guardian, p. 5, 28 May 2003
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