Menckenismn.
/ˈmɛŋkənɪz(ə)m/, /ˈmɛŋkn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈmɛnkəˌnɪz(ə)m/, /ˈmɛŋkəˌnɪz(ə)m/ An idiom or mode of expression coined by, or reminiscent of the style of, Mencken.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > ideas, etc., characteristic of specific writer
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Johnsonianism1807
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Walter Scottism1835
Carlylism1841
Voltairism1841
Macaulayism1846
Voltairianism1848
Zolaism1882
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Brontëism1887
Arnoldism1892
Kiplingism1898
Shavianism1905
Menckenism1922
Sitwellism1922
Pirandellism1925
Shavianismus1927
Proustery1928
Wodehousian1931
Waughism1934
Snovianism1966
Orwellianism1967
Pinterism1967
Orwellism1970
Pinterishness1970
1922 S. P. Sherman Americans i. 12 ‘Calls Thomas Arnold of Rugby “that thrice-damned boor and noodle”’. ‘Good! Mr. Mencken exclaims. ‘A Menckenism! A Menckenism!’
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 314 And a menckenism is one of those little stink-gas phrases.
1980 Economist (Nexis) 6 Sept. 26 They pepper their prose with Menckenisms—professors are ‘chalky wretches’, Mr John Anderson is ‘Parson’ Anderson, and so on.
1993 Boston Globe (Nexis) 22 Nov. 11 I have a letter from an MIT professor who complained that he couldn't find the classic Menckenism ‘to bloviate’ in his dictionary.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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