Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One, especially a performer, who works in vaudeville.
Wiktionary
- n. US a person who performs in vaudeville
WordNet 3.0
- n. a performer who works in vaudeville
Examples
“If I use the phrase vaudevillian for Bill Clinton, by contrast you think that President Bush has a front row seat to watch rather than to perform.”
“In his more relaxed moments, Bernard's speech fell into a kind of vaudevillian patois.”
“Rebecca Mead, writing in the New Yorker, dubbed him "the Marx Brother" and described his approach thus: "His favoured form of argument is paradox, and his favoured mode of delivery is a kind of vaudevillian overstatement, buttressed by the appearance of utter conviction.”
“And Jody Rosen argues that Borat is a throwback to the crudest kind of vaudevillian ethnic burlesque, the stuff that we thought was smoothed out of pop culture long ago.”
“With this "vaudevillian" song the band wanted to assert that "this wouldn't be a paint-by-numbers Hold Steady record," says Mr. Kubler.”
“Yorker, dubbed him "the Marx Brother" and described his approach thus: "His favoured form of argument is paradox, and his favoured mode of delivery is a kind of vaudevillian overstatement, buttressed by the appearance of utter conviction.”
“Jody Rosen argues that "Borat is a throwback to the crudest kind of vaudevillian ethnic burlesque, the stuff that we thought was smoothed out of pop culture long ago.”
“Theatre Alley, tucked inside the Financial District, still bears a vaudevillian wall painting from "Billy Bathgate," which filmed there in 1991.”
“Miss Hope Springs, a 6ft 2in "ex-Las Vegas showgirl", is the retro-glam, vaudevillian alter ego created by the pianist Ty Jeffries in order to sing his own compositions in theatres and clubs around the country.”
“Interview magazine says “these vaudevillian vamps are putting the show back in showmanship.””
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vaudevillian’.
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Vaudeville
The show must go on . . . .
vaudeville, dumb act, Polite Vaudeville, hoofer, flop, gag, cakewalk, top banana, second banana, Orpheum Circuit, play the Palace, The Palace and 55 more...
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 856 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Words that kick serious ass
juggernaut, haymaker, gung-ho, frag, smite, blunderbuss, gargantuan, ragnarok, ripsnorter, herculean, silverback, firebrand and 127 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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Vendetta Words
"Voila! In view, a
humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by
the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a
vestige of the...vendetta, vis-a-vis, vaudevillian, vicariously, voiala, veteran, vicissitudes, vexation, visage, vilified, volition, verbiage and 27 more...
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Pleasing to the ears. (alphabetical.)
Words that seem to roll right off the tongue and into the ear.
amalgamation, bedlam, colloquial, decadence, ephemeral, floriferous, galvanize, heirophant, ionophoresis, joviality, kaleidoscopic, luminescent and 14 more...
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V
V's speech made of V words from V for Vendetta
voila, view, vaudevillian, veteran, vicariously, victim, villain, vicissitudes, visage, veneer, vanity, vestige and 37 more...
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Chaotic Musings
beatnick, rage, machiavellian, axiom, vicissitude, antediluvian, voodoo, bohemian, vendetta, gargoyle, midnight, chaos and 49 more...
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Words: V
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