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Definition of Pooterish in English: Pooterishadjective ˈpuːtərɪʃˈpo͞odəriSH Self-important and mundane or narrow-minded. 自大而平庸的；心胸狭隘的 a Pooterish, inhibited man 一个心胸狭隘又腼腆的人。 Example sentencesExamples - It's a minor classic of Pooterish indignation.
- Nor is he some Pooterish prisoner of the past, obsessed with maintaining a gentility and civility for cricket that never existed in the first place.
- He was a Pooterish character (Brahmsian beard and all).
- In writing those awful Pooterish books about Iris, John Bayley has quite appropriated her life to his own ends - an irony of which director Richard Eyre seems utterly unaware.
- Bayley's deadpan, Pooterish style draws the reader into supplying what is left out.
- In that sense Clarke is quintessentially English: Pooterish, mildly eccentric, inquisitive, unpushy yet quietly ambitious.
- The die was cast against Wilde, found guilty of playing with sin in the secret house of shame, and there was Pooterish celebration at The Laurels.
- That fact, like many others, does not appear in her Pooterish autobiography, Open Secret
- She writes about their ‘relationship’ with a Pooterish self-regard that verges on the comic.’
- Whistler's description of meeting him at a party in laurel wreath, toga, and iron-rimmed spectacles has a definitely Pooterish quality.
- It nevertheless offered a memorable addition to Leigh's gallery of comic creations in Alan Dixon, a Pooterish middle-aged clerk who has an obsession with the activities of the British royalty and aristocracy.
- Tony Benn's diaries date back to 1940, since when he has poured over events at Westminster in Pooterish detail.
Origin1960s: from the name of Charles Pooter, the central character of Diary of a Nobody (1892) by George and Weedon Grossmith. Definition of Pooterish in US English: Pooterishadjectiveˈpo͞odəriSH Self-important and mundane or narrow-minded. 自大而平庸的；心胸狭隘的 Duran has a Pooterish way with an anecdote which makes his book often very funny Example sentencesExamples - In writing those awful Pooterish books about Iris, John Bayley has quite appropriated her life to his own ends - an irony of which director Richard Eyre seems utterly unaware.
- Tony Benn's diaries date back to 1940, since when he has poured over events at Westminster in Pooterish detail.
- She writes about their ‘relationship’ with a Pooterish self-regard that verges on the comic.’
- That fact, like many others, does not appear in her Pooterish autobiography, Open Secret
- In that sense Clarke is quintessentially English: Pooterish, mildly eccentric, inquisitive, unpushy yet quietly ambitious.
- Nor is he some Pooterish prisoner of the past, obsessed with maintaining a gentility and civility for cricket that never existed in the first place.
- He was a Pooterish character (Brahmsian beard and all).
- The die was cast against Wilde, found guilty of playing with sin in the secret house of shame, and there was Pooterish celebration at The Laurels.
- It's a minor classic of Pooterish indignation.
- Bayley's deadpan, Pooterish style draws the reader into supplying what is left out.
- Whistler's description of meeting him at a party in laurel wreath, toga, and iron-rimmed spectacles has a definitely Pooterish quality.
- It nevertheless offered a memorable addition to Leigh's gallery of comic creations in Alan Dixon, a Pooterish middle-aged clerk who has an obsession with the activities of the British royalty and aristocracy.
Origin1960s: from the name of Charles Pooter, the central character of Diary of a Nobody (1892) by George and Weedon Grossmith. |