Woosterism

plural Woosterisms

1. countableuncountablefoppish, affected speech or behaviour

   'Ah, the Julian calendar, yes. What-ho for jolly old Julian.' I winced; he never sounded more Jewish than when he came out with these Woosterisms.

   2009, John Banville, The Untouchable

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   Employers, still influenced by a touch of 1930s Woosterism, liked the idea of recruiting a young graduate who had had a fling or two, even if it was with socialism.

   2001, Tony Vaux, The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and War, page 10

   In his earliest appearances he favors an upper-class drawl and inane Bertie Woosterisms masking bursts of insight that solve frustrating cases his stolid friend Inspector Charles Parker cannot fathom.

   2006, Mitzi Brunsdale, Gumshoes: A Dictionary of Fictional Detectives, page 12