Woosterism
Woosterism noun: foppish, affected speech or behaviour.
Noun
Woosterism (countable and uncountable, plural Woosterisms)
- foppish, affected speech or behaviour
- Employers, still influenced by a touch of 1930s Woosterism, liked the idea of recruiting a young graduate who had had a fling or two, even if it was with socialism.2001, Tony Vaux, The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and War, page 10
- In his earliest appearances he favors an upper-class drawl and inane Bertie Woosterisms masking bursts of insight that solve frustrating cases his stolid friend Inspector Charles Parker cannot fathom.2006, Mitzi Brunsdale, Gumshoes: A Dictionary of Fictional Detectives, page 12
Forms of Woosterism
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Origin of Woosterism
From Wooster + -ism, after Bertie Wooster, the protagonist of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series of comic novels.
Questions about Woosterism
- What does Woosterism mean?
- Woosterism means foppish, affected speech or behaviour.
- What part of speech is Woosterism?
- Woosterism is a noun.
- What is the plural of Woosterism?
- The plural of Woosterism is Woosterisms.
Words near Woosterism in the dictionary
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