CHAPLINESQUE


Meaning of CHAPLINESQUE in English

|chaplə̇|nesk adjective

Usage: usually capitalized

Etymology: Charles S. Chaplin b 1889 English-born comedian + English -esque

: resembling or suggesting the largely pantomime comedy of the motion-picture comedian Charles Chaplin, especially its central comedy figure, a pathetic ineffectual good-hearted tramp with torn baggy pants, long-worn shoes, cane and bowler hat, an odd jerky walk, and pretensions to gentility

Chaplinesque comedy

waddling with all their Chaplinesque might — Russell Owen

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.