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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Woosterian en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. foppish and affected

Forms

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more Woosterian Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most Woosterian Degree=Sup lexicographic

Relateds

Woosterism · Jeevesian

Synonyms

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

wikipedia: P. G. Wodehouse · wikipedia: Bertie Wooster