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Thurberesque, a.|ˌθɜːbəˈrɛsk| [-esque.] Of or pertaining to the American cartoonist and writer James Thurber (1894–1961), the characters in his work, or his style of writing or drawing.
1954Encounter June 88/1 The essentially sexual (we might almost say Thurberesque) nature of true comedy, its concern with the war of men and women. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Oct. 626/4 A very amusing Thurberesque anecdote by Miss Rebecca West about meeting Pirandello, without knowing it, on a wild night out in New York in the 1920s. 1972Listener 6 Apr. 458/1 A Thurberesque doodle. 1980Washington Star 23 Oct. d6 Nabokov is in it as kind of a Thurberesque stage manager character. |