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Cthulhu

[ kuh-thoo-loo ]

noun

  1. an otherworldly entity, usually portrayed as a gigantic winged creature with a humanoid body and a tentacled face, that was created by the horror writer H.P. Lovecraft in the 1928 short story The Call of Cthulhu and became an important part of Lovecraft's mythos, later also becoming a popular culture reference.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Cthulhu1

Coined in 1928 by U.S. writer H.P. Lovecraft ( def ) (1890–1937) in his short story The Call of Cthulhu, published in the U.S. pulp magazine Weird Tales; resemblance to chthonian or chthonic is accidental
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Example Sentences

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In his most famous work, “The Call of Cthulhu,” science fiction writer H.P.

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In fact, thinking about Donald Trump is generally a bad idea, like thinking too much about Cthulhu or the Candyman, and should be avoided whenever possible.

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Name the powerful emotions you feel and set them aside, because unleashing your anger, outrage, disgust and so forth — as, again, with Cthulhu — only nourishes him.

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In essence, the United States government would become a type of fascist Cthulhu monster, an extension of Trump's evil twisted mind and pathological impulses.

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There is a cultural feeling of doom, this sense that Cthulhu underlies modern society, and we are waiting for it to collapse, or worse.

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