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Barneyesque

Barneyesque adjective: resembling or characteristic of Barney from the American children’s television series Barney & Friends, a purple anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus rex who conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, huggable and optimistic attitude.

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Adjective

Barneyesque (comparative more Barneyesque, superlative most Barneyesque)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of Barney from the American children’s television series Barney & Friends, a purple anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus rex who conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, huggable and optimistic attitude.
    • It’s strange what a few red and white candy-cane fashioned posts can do for a campus. And how easily a carousel lined with big plastic Barneyesque dinosaurs can enliven a normally adult space.1998 April 16, Young Chang, “If you build it… they will come”, in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, volume CII, number 24, Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University, →OCLC, page B1
    • Marylen Costumes […] Offers a big selection of somewhat “Barneyesque” designs and a reasonably serious T. rex.1999, John C. Fredriksen, Dino-Guide: The Saurian Source Book (Reference Books for School and Public Libraries; 1), Salem, Mass.: Dollar Scholar Press, →ISBN, page 30, column 2

Examples of Barneyesque in a sentence

  • And I discovered that the great majority were mediocre or worse—banal, treacly, shallow, half-assed, depressingly Barneyesque.2001, Istvan Banyai, − = + [Minus Equals Plus], New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., →ISBN, page 3:
  • DEATH TO SMOOCHY ◆ (108 mins., R) Set in the Barneyesque world of children’s television, this comedy of backstabbing overkill tells a moldy-oldie, not-nearly-as-nasty-as-it-thinks-it-is joke.2002 April 12, Owen Gleiberman, “The Week”, in Entertainment Weekly, number 648, New York, N.Y.: Entertainment Weekly Inc., →ISSN, page 52...
  • Now in vogue: the very Barneyesque shade of purple.2006, Michael Smerconish, “Seeing Purple”, in Muzzled: From T-Ball to Terrorism—True Stories That Should Be Fiction, Nashville, Tenn....
  • The Barneyesque beastie [Dinger] (whose purple hue derives from the [Colorado] Rockies’ team colors and not from the then-popular TV dinosaur) began to court controversy from the very beginning.2010, Robert Schnakenberg, “Dinger”, in The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia: Baseball Stuff You Never Needed to Know and Can Certainly...

Forms of Barneyesque

comparativemore Barneyesque
superlativemost Barneyesque

Origin of Barneyesque

From Barney + -esque.

Questions about Barneyesque

What does Barneyesque mean?
Barneyesque means resembling or characteristic of Barney from the American children’s television series Barney & Friends, a purple anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus rex who conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, huggable and optimistic attitude.
How do you use Barneyesque in a sentence?
And I discovered that the great majority were mediocre or worse—banal, treacly, shallow, half-assed, depressingly Barneyesque.
What part of speech is Barneyesque?
Barneyesque is an adjective.

Words near Barneyesque in the dictionary

  1. Barney Rubble
  2. Barney style
  3. barney-mugging
  4. Barney-style
  5. barneyed
  6. Barneyesque
  7. barneying
  8. barneymugging
  9. barneys
  10. Barneys Reef
  11. Barnfield

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