Muppetlike

Muppetlike

English

Alternative forms

• muppetlike
• Muppet-like

Etymology

Muppet + -like

Adjective

Muppetlike

1. Resembling a Muppet.
   • 1992, New Statesman Society, Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited, page 30:

     There is also a lesson in how to construct your own Bill & Ted robots out of the materials available from your local builder’s emporium—though you won't be able to do this unless you have at your command a couple of ugly, Muppetlike physics geniuses from Mars.

   • 1999, Meg O’Brien, Crashing Down, Mira Books, page 139:

     While Breen related with the Muppetlike creatures, getting them to talk and play with the children, leaning over them to give them hugs and big silly kisses, Tess smiled and was, for all appearances, totally trusting.

   • 2017 January 12, Bill Warren, Keep Watching the Skies!, American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition, McFarland & Company, unpaged:

     The monster also had swim fins and a seaweed skirt. Anything but convincing or even really serviceable, its Muppetlike appearance was appropriate to this film.