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Seinfeldish

Seinfeldish adjective: characteristic of the American sitcom Seinfeld, or its main character and star, Jerry Seinfeld.

Adjective

Seinfeldish (comparative more Seinfeldish, superlative most Seinfeldish)

  1. (informal) Characteristic of the American sitcom Seinfeld, or its main character and star, Jerry Seinfeld.
    • Washington's health clubs serve the gamut of American yupppiedom, from torture chambers of grunting macho macho men, to Seinfeldish singles scenes, to high-tech palaces for political trophy wives and their over-the-Hill hubbies.1997, Nicole Arthur, Will Tizard, Frommer's Washington, D. C., by Night, John Wiley & Sons, published 1997, →ISBN, page 119
    • In TV the winks range from the casual and occasional (network newswomen appearing as themselves on Murphy Brown) to the deadpan crypto-real (on Seinfeld, comedian Jerry Seinfeld plays a comedian named Jerry, and in one episode he makes a Seinfeldish TV pilot) to the relentlessly ironic (David...2001 June 23, Kurt Anderson, “Spectator: Are Beavis and Butt-head Arty?”, in Time
    Synonyms:
    Seinfeldian

Synonyms of Seinfeldish

Forms of Seinfeldish

comparativemore Seinfeldish
superlativemost Seinfeldish

Origin of Seinfeldish

From Seinfeld + -ish.

Questions about Seinfeldish

What does Seinfeldish mean?
Seinfeldish means characteristic of the American sitcom Seinfeld, or its main character and star, Jerry Seinfeld.
What part of speech is Seinfeldish?
Seinfeldish is an adjective.

Words near Seinfeldish in the dictionary

  1. seiners
  2. seines
  3. Seinfeld
  4. Seinfeldesque
  5. Seinfeldian
  6. Seinfeldish
  7. seining
  8. seinings
  9. seins
  10. seintuaries
  11. seintuary

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