Woosterism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    foppish, affected speech or behaviour countable, uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

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

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