Bardolphian
English
Etymology
Bardolph + -ian
Adjective
Bardolphian (comparative more Bardolphian, superlative most Bardolphian)
- Of or relating to Bardolph, an alcoholic thief in four of Shakespeare's plays, especially in having the red nose of a habitual drunkard.
- 1870, Frederic Swartwout Cozzens, Sayings, Wise and Otherwise (page 252)
- You intend to paint it red — a true Bardolphian nose!
- 1876, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe, and other pieces (page 50)
- His cheeks were plump and sanguine; his eyes bright and cheerful; and the tip of his nose glowed with a Bardolphian fire, a flame, indeed, which Hugh was so far a vestal as to supply with its necessary fuel at all some seasons of the year.
- 1870, Frederic Swartwout Cozzens, Sayings, Wise and Otherwise (page 252)