echt — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Proper, real, genuine, true to type.

   Examples

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

   More examples (1)

   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[…].

Adjective

1. not fake or counterfeit

   Synonyms

   genuine

   Examples

   a genuine Picasso

   genuine leather