Pooteresque

English

Adjective

Pooteresque (comparative more Pooteresque, superlative most Pooteresque)

1. Synonym of Pooterish
   • 2002, D.George Boyce, Alan O'Day, Defenders of the Union, →ISBN:

     But there was also a Pooteresque world of clerks and shopkeepers who lived in the primly respectable townships south of the capital, and whose existence might easily be forgotten were it not for the evidence of church records and the admission books of Orange lodges.

   • 2007, Philip Tew, The Contemporary British Novel, →ISBN, page 95:

     If this is simply the grounds for their distance and confusion from the realm of the city then they might simply be 'Pooteresque', but Kate's encounter with Mujid, an Iraqi student she has inherited from her feminist networking, brings home to her the social shift in the culture of the city that has evolved and challenges the limits of her liberalism.

   • 2009, Neil McKenna, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, →ISBN:

     In his next, rather Pooteresque letter, Fred has taken to telling Oscar where he will be in the hope that he will turn up: