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- adjective Of or pertaining to P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), English writer and humorist.
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Examples
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But I think you have to think about this book as a kind of Wodehousian fantasy with a little bit of Mary Poppins squeezed in, because Connie Hargreaves is not unlike Mary Poppins.
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But I think you have to think about this book as a kind of Wodehousian fantasy with a little bit of Mary Poppins squeezed in, because Connie Hargreaves is not unlike Mary Poppins.
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Not the spavined buffoons of the Wodehousian imagination, but the revenge-crazed thugs of the century following the Restoration.
Unseen Swells: Why rock stars should become aristocrats 2010
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"A prep-school master" writes Dexter, "blessed with the unlikely and rather Wodehousian name of Carrington Craxton, who had embarked on a disastrous chicken-farming venture in Devonshire"
Books 2009
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I was trying to turn it into the Wodehousian "What Ho!"
So, how many Lib Dems did the BBC phone to get an anti-Ming quote? Stephen Tall 2007
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The Wodehousian language is there, I particularly enjoyed a section where Garnet refused to be sneered at by a chicken.
Celebrate the Author: PG Wodehouse tinylittlelibrarian 2009
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The Wodehousian language is there, I particularly enjoyed a section where Garnet refused to be sneered at by a chicken.
Archive 2009-10-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2009
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"A prep-school master" writes Dexter, "blessed with the unlikely and rather Wodehousian name of Carrington Craxton, who had embarked on a disastrous chicken-farming venture in Devonshire"
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There are typically Wodehousian scrapes involving locked houses, tipped boats, and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.
Archive 2009-10-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2009
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There are typically Wodehousian scrapes involving locked houses, tipped boats, and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.
Celebrate the Author: PG Wodehouse tinylittlelibrarian 2009
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