(ˈ)fȯlz|tafēən, -l|st-, -taaf-, -taif-, -tȧf- adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Sir John Falstaff, character in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV + English -ian
1. : resembling the fat, jovial, humorous, dissolute Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff
a Falstaffian figure, fantastically overfed and fat — C.G.Bowers
: like that of Sir John Falstaff
the romanticism of Brahmin culture with all Falstaffian vulgarity deleted — V.L.Parrington
2. : resembling the ragged regiment raised by Sir John Falstaff