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A kidult is an adult who still loves the games, toys, films, and shops that many people think of as being for children — video games, little plastic heroes, theme parks, cartoons. You will also meet it as a describing word: kidult humour, the kidult market. Shops like the word, because those adults have money. Magazines sometimes use it with a little , as if the person has refused to grow up. Though actually, plenty of people who buy those things are not ashamed; they just like them. The word grew when toys and games for grown-ups became a huge business. It is informal. It is not a doctor's word, and it is not automatically an insult — though it can lean that way if the speaker's voice is .
大小孩;童心未泯的大人(行銷用語,有時帶點酸)
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
kidultnoun/ˈkɪd.ʌlt/
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informalbusinesshuman-sciencesmarketingAn adult who participates in youth culture and activities traditionally intended for children.
kidultadj/ˈkɪd.ʌlt/
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Of or relating to kidults.
- Organizational methods appear significantly more frequently in kidult programs, next most frequently in adult programs, and least frequently in children's programs. Escape methods appear most frequently in adult programs with kidult and children's programs about equal.
- By casting popular culture as simplistic and ‘kidult’, as distinct from the authentic adult culture she approves of, she reduces a complex culture to a generational divide: the new is childish; while the old and established is timeless, worthy of consumption by adults.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。