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Pooterish
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 Gross... Oxford English Dictionary
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Charles Pooter
The character has spawned the word Pooterism (Pooterish, Pooteresque), which means taking oneself far too seriously: believing that one's importance or wikipedia.org
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Pooter
Pooter, n.3 (ˈpuːtə(r)) The family name of Charles Pooter (see Pooterish a.), used of a type of person characterized by parochial self-importance, over-fastidiousness, or lack of imagination.1961 Listener 16 Nov. 833/3 We need its rocket to launch us beyond the world of the Pooters. 1962 Times 14 Ju... Oxford English Dictionary
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Money (novel)
You know the usual Pooterish Englishman who goes abroad in English novels and is taken aback by everything. Well, not a bit of that in John Self. wikipedia.org
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The Diary of a Nobody
of his parents—Arthur Waugh used to read passages aloud to his family, and Evelyn's biographer Selina Hastings has drawn attention to the distinctly Pooterish Forster, characters emerged who, despite the recognisably Pooterish aspects of their lives, were by no means entirely absurd. wikipedia.org
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Alun Michael
In his autobiography Michael Buerk wrote "Alun Michael with his ginger toothbrush-moustache and battered corduroy jacket, was a rather Pooterish character wikipedia.org
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The First Men in the Moon (2010 film)
He enjoyed the film's "sly" references to modernity, such as airline flight safety announcements, and its "Pooterish approximation of Neil Armstrong's wikipedia.org
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