Boratesque

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Borat +‎ -esque.

Adjective[edit]

Boratesque (comparative more Boratesque, superlative most Boratesque)

  1. (rare) Relating to or characteristic of the 2006 mockumentary comedy film Borat, or its protagonist Borat Sagdiyev, a fictitious Kazakh journalist (played by Sacha Baron Cohen).
    • 2015, Robert Saunders, “Mediating New Europe-Asia: Branding the Post-Socialist World via the Internet”, in Jeremy Morris, Natalya Rulyova, Vlad Strukov, editors, New Media in New Europe-Asia (Routledge Europe-Asia Studies), London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 158:
      While Baron Cohen targeted a single country, the Australian comedian Santo Cilauro crafted an entirely new, but undeniably post-Second World, country to perpetrate similar acts of anti-branding. As a complement to the wildly popular faux travel guide Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry (2004), Cilauro created the eerily-Boratesque Zladko ('ZLAD!') Vladcik.
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