Pooterish, a.
(ˈpuːtərɪʃ)
[f. the name Pooter (see below) + -ish1.]
Resembling, characteristic of, or associated with Charles Pooter, an assistant in a mercantile firm, whose mundane domestic, social, and business troubles are the subject of the fictional Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith (1892).
| 1966 New Statesman 11 Mar. 349/3 Take a Pooterish Little Man with sexual and cultural ambitions outside his class, [etc.]. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Dec. 1626/2 So many square miles of vapid and banal and Pooterish suburb. 1977 Times 14 May 10/4 George VI's deadpan account of Pooterish bishops blundering through his coronation. 1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Feb. 229/3 The Pooterish touch in ‘inexpensive’ betrays a lack of awareness. |