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  • adjective Of or pertaining to P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), English writer and humorist.

Etymologies

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Wodehouse +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • 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.

    Librarian Nancy Pearl Picks 'Under The Radar' Reads 2010

  • 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.

    Librarian Nancy Pearl Picks 'Under The Radar' Reads 2010

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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"

    How 10 classics got their titles 2009

  • 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

  • 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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