Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Resembling or characteristic of Fagin in Dickens' Oliver Twist (1838), a criminal who trains children as pickpockets.
Etymologies
- Fagin + -esque (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Holder's list of alleged "Broken Trust" victories is a similarly Faginesque assemblage of small-time grifters.”
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Artfully Eponymous Adjectives
Adjectives, such as quixotic, whose root is the name of an artist, poet, writer, or literary character.
For additional eponyms see the lists Namesakes and Lend Me Your Name. I've liste...Thoreauvian, Gradgrindian, Blytonesque, Rabelaisian, Emersonian, Byronic, Dickensian, Lovecraftian, Miltonian, Byronian, Byronesque, Flaubertian and 228 more...
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What the Dickens!
Words and phrases coined or made popular by Charles Dickens.
Sources: http://thewordmaven.wordpress.com...Scrooge, Pecksniffian, Pickwickian, Faginesque, Bumble, Dolly Varden, Uriah Heap, Dickensian, micawber, podsnappery, A-1, ain’t and 18 more...
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