Maleskan
Maleskan adjective: of or pertaining to the style or tenure of New York Times crossword puzzle editor Eugene Maleska, thought now to feature needless obscurity and difficulty.
Adjective
Maleskan (comparative more Maleskan, superlative most Maleskan)
- Of or pertaining to the style or tenure of New York Times crossword puzzle editor Eugene Maleska, thought now to feature needless obscurity and difficulty.
- I was lulled into a false sense of confidence in the northeast, continued my way down the grid, and found that I kept stopping to marvel at the Things That Seemed Eerily Maleskan.2012 October 25, Deb Amlen, “Truncated Parlor Piece”, in The New York Times
- It launched at exactly the right time to capture the younger generation of puzzlemakers and solvers, the ones who felt that the clue for OREO should be "Kind of cookie" rather than the Maleskan “Mountain: prefix" (as in the "famous" oreortyx, the mountain quail).2013 May 1, T. Campbell, On Crosswords: Thoughts, Studies, Facts and Snark About a 100-Year-Old Pastime, Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN, page 21
Forms of Maleskan
| comparative | more Maleskan |
|---|---|
| superlative | most Maleskan |
Origin of Maleskan
From Maleska + -n.
Questions about Maleskan
- What does Maleskan mean?
- Maleskan means of or pertaining to the style or tenure of New York Times crossword puzzle editor Eugene Maleska, thought now to feature needless obscurity and difficulty.
- What part of speech is Maleskan?
- Maleskan is an adjective.
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