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Pooterish

Pooterish adjective: characteristic of the character Charles Pooter; of modest social status, especially when having pretensions of greater significance and status.

Adjective

Pooterish (comparative more Pooterish, superlative most Pooterish)

  1. Characteristic of the character Charles Pooter; of modest social status, especially when having pretensions of greater significance and status.
    • The volume begins, though, with Byron being petty and Pooterish — if it is possible for such a non-family man to be Pooterish.1980, The Listener - Volume 103, page 378
    • The vegetative eugenics practised in mild-mannered cul-de-sacs, the extreme prejudice of poisoning some blameless green thing while feeding another, are symptoms of Pooterish yearning for a fascist order (p. 161).2008, Chris Rojek, Brit-Myth: Who Do the British Think They Are?, →ISBN

Forms of Pooterish

comparativemore Pooterish
superlativemost Pooterish

Origin of Pooterish

From the name of the character Charles Pooter in George and Weedon Grossmith's 1892 novel The Diary of a Nobody.

Questions about Pooterish

What does Pooterish mean?
Pooterish means characteristic of the character Charles Pooter; of modest social status, especially when having pretensions of greater significance and status.
What part of speech is Pooterish?
Pooterish is an adjective.

Words near Pooterish in the dictionary

  1. pooted
  2. pooter
  3. pootered
  4. Pooteresque
  5. pootering
  6. Pooterish
  7. Pooterism
  8. pooters
  9. pootie
  10. pootier
  11. pooties

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