Partridgian

comparative more Partridgian · superlative most Partridgian

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Partridgean.

   Boro's recently reinstated and reassuringly shouty PA announcer Mark Page has had a career of Partridgian vicissitudes. In the early 1980s, he was plucked from local radio to fill the early Saturday morning slot on Radio One.

   2013, Daniel Gray, Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters: Travels through England's Football Provinces, →ISBN, page 29

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   And don't forget his spectacularly Partridgian performance during that Blood On The Carpet about Radio 1 a few months back, especially when he related how DLT rang him during Danny Baker's first show to ask him if he was listening, and Juste deciding that he *had* to put on the best show he could in 'answer'. And that bit at the end with him looking round the old R1 premises. "It's all ruined..."

   2001 August 13, Simon Tyers, “Really? So what happened? (was Re: Chris Moyles - End to Saturday show??)”, in uk.media.radio.bbc-r1 (Usenet), message-ID <9l9ecd$rd7$1@plutonium.btinternet.com>

   More smart ideas from the likeable combo. Their Partridgian misfits and Colin Hunts soon pall, but the oddball stuff is terrific: the chain of resentment set up by some dropped coins; the host who overinvites to a party; and "Martin Clunes Knocky Door", a cartoon that's as stupidly funny as its title.

   2009 February 3, Mark Braxton, “Cowards (review)”, in Radio Times