Pooterish

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

Pooterish (comparative more Pooterish, superlative most Pooterish)

Characteristic of the character Charles Pooter; of modest social status, especially when having pretensions of greater significance and status.
- 1980, The Listener - Volume 103, page 378:
  The volume begins, though, with Byron being petty and Pooterish — if it is possible for such a non-family man to be Pooterish.
- 2008, Chris Rojek, Brit-Myth: Who Do the British Think They Are?, →ISBN:
  The vegetative eugenics practised in mild-mannered cul-de-sacs, the extreme prejudice of poisoning some blameless green thing while feeding another, are symptoms of Pooterish yearning for a fascist order (p. 161).
- 2013, Tony Whitehead, Mike Leigh, →ISBN, page 43:
  That said, it produces a great comic creation in Alan Dixon (Richard Kane), a splendidly Pooterish middle-aged clerk, fixated with unctuous reverence on the activities of British royalty and the aristocracy, including one or two of the firm's clients.

单词	Pooterish
释义	Pooterish English Etymology From the name of the character Charles Pooter in George and Weedon Grossmith's 1892 novel The Diary of a Nobody. Adjective Pooterish (comparative more Pooterish, superlative most Pooterish) Characteristic of the character Charles Pooter; of modest social status, especially when having pretensions of greater significance and status. 1980, The Listener - Volume 103, page 378: The volume begins, though, with Byron being petty and Pooterish — if it is possible for such a non-family man to be Pooterish. 2008, Chris Rojek, Brit-Myth: Who Do the British Think They Are?, →ISBN: The vegetative eugenics practised in mild-mannered cul-de-sacs, the extreme prejudice of poisoning some blameless green thing while feeding another, are symptoms of Pooterish yearning for a fascist order (p. 161). 2013, Tony Whitehead, Mike Leigh, →ISBN, page 43: That said, it produces a great comic creation in Alan Dixon (Richard Kane), a splendidly Pooterish middle-aged clerk, fixated with unctuous reverence on the activities of British royalty and the aristocracy, including one or two of the firm's clients.
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