English Explanatory Dictionary

Woosterian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. foppish and affected

Word forms

Woosterian more Woosterian most Woosterian

Etymology

From Wooster + -ian, after Bertie Wooster, the protagonist of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series of comic novels.

Synonyms

dandy buckish beauish coxcombical dandiacal dandified dandyish dandyistic dudish foppish foppy Jemmy-Jessamy lily-handed macaronic swellish Woosterian affected effete fey recherché hoity-toity overrefined pansified precious pretentious smug stagy stilted theatrical

Related words

Woosterism Jeevesian
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