English Explanatory Dictionary

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A stereotypical vocal conservative curmudgeon.

Word forms

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells

Etymology

An invented pseudonym of the supposed writer of a letter to a local newspaper in the archetypal Middle England town of Tunbridge Wells. Possibly first coined 1944 in the BBC radio series Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh.

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