Jacksonesque

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adjective

Resembling or reminiscent of a Jackson.

Scrabble 34

Meanings

adjectiveJacksonesque (comparative more Jacksonesque, superlative most Jacksonesque)

comparative more Jacksonesque · superlative most Jacksonesque

  1. Resembling or reminiscent of a Jackson.

    […] a school of landscape studies identified with the late John Brinkerhoff Jackson^([sic]) and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Jacksonesque landscape studies […]

    2006, Jack Temple Kirby, Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South, UNC Press, →ISBN, page xviii
  2. specificallyResembling or reminiscent of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), American president and military governor.

    In December 1841 [John Greenleaf] Whittier published “Democracy,” which celebrated a Jacksonesque spirit “unawed by pomp or power,” but also disclaimed allegiance to the Whigs or Democrats, […]

    2000, Edward L. Widmer, Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City, Oxford University Press US, →ISBN, page 68
  3. specificallyResembling or reminiscent of Michael Jackson (1958-2009), American pop musician.

    In the [‘Billie Jean’ music] video, Jackson hoists up his drainpipe trousers, […] in order to strut his stuff – now-archetypal Jacksonesque dance movements involving either one shoe being stuck out and swivelled from side to side on the ball of the foot, or leaping knock-kneed up on to both toes.

    2001, Josh Sims, Rock Fashion, Omnibus Press, →ISBN, page 216

Origin

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APA

Jacksonesque. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jacksonesque

MLA

“Jacksonesque.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jacksonesque. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Jacksonesque,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jacksonesque.

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