English Explanatory Dictionary

Pooterish

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Characteristic of the character Charles Pooter; of modest social status, especially when having pretensions of greater significance and status.

Word forms

Pooterish more Pooterish most Pooterish

Etymology

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

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