Ellenesque

Adjective

Ellenesque (comparative more Ellenesque, superlative most Ellenesque)

1. Characteristic of someone named Ellen.
   • It had seemed to me sort of an Ellenesque thing to have happened, charming and delightful, though I had paid no attention to her belief that he was coming back.1914, Mary Heaton Vorse, The Heart’s Country, Boston, Mass; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge, page 113
   • A final Ellenesque reflection: “Such a lady is too expensive a product to maintain a falling empire.”1931 January 26, “Middlebro’s M.P.”, in The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, volume XLI, number 22, Winnipeg, Man., page 11
   1. Characteristic of Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958), American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer.
      • Wilson tipped off her cousin Courtney Wilson, “That’s Ellen.” Degeneres^([sic]) looked up and gave Tiff “a very, very pleasant smile, kind of letting us know it was she.” To jar Courtney’s memory, Tiff lapsed into some Ellenesque silliness — dancing, slapping her tiny behind and singing “and booty...1996 August 29, “‘Ellen’ finds fan, mimic”, in Star Tribune, volume XV, number 147, page B4
      • If I had known that this innocuous-sounding PG-13 movie about a man falsely (I thought) accused of being gay was really an Ellenesque coming out with a huge message to teenagers that “hey, it’s OK!”, I wouldn’t have attended myself, let alone taken my 14-year-old son.1997 October 6, Suzanne P. Johnson, “In Ellen’s footsteps”, in The Commercial Appeal, 158th year, number 279, Memphis, Tenn., page A9