Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

woosterism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: woos-t-er-ism
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

foppish, affected speech or behaviour

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Employers, still influenced by a touch of 1930s Woosterism, liked the idea of recruiting a young graduate who had had a fling or two, even if it was with socialism."
"In his earliest appearances he favors an upper-class drawl and inane Bertie Woosterisms masking bursts of insight that solve frustrating cases his stolid friend Inspector Charles Parker cannot fathom."
"'Ah, the Julian calendar, yes. What-ho for jolly old Julian.' I winced; he never sounded more Jewish than when he came out with these Woosterisms."

Etymology

From Wooster + -ism, after Bertie Wooster, the protagonist of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series of comic novels.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Wooster

Usage

Inflected Forms

Woosterisms (plural)

Questions

What does woosterism mean?: foppish, affected speech or behaviour
Where does woosterism come from?: From Wooster + -ism, after Bertie Wooster, the protagonist of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series of comic novels.

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