Pooterish

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Pooterish [ˈpuːtərɪʃ]

adj

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important

[from Charles Pooter, the hero of Diary of a Nobody (1892), by George and Weedon Grossmith]

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