gadzookery

plural gadzookeries

1. countableuncountableThe use of archaism, tushery.

   The cladding is often gadzookery but the story motifs […]

   2004, Peter Hunt, International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, Routledge, →ISBN, page 421

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   By anagramming letters and altering the order of words, he produces two quatrains, which we content merely to quote as examples of gadzookery.

   1957, William F. Friedman, Elizabeth S. Friedman, The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined, Reprint edition, Cambridge Univ Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 57

   Her spare prose and dialogue give a period flavour without the dread excesses of gadzookery.

   2002, David Langford, The Complete Critical Assembly, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 137

   […] inspiring a whole genre of pseudo-Elizabethan fiction, sometimes described as "tushery" or "gadzookery."

   2009, Helen Hackett, Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths, Princeton Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 60

   […] a middle course, avoiding both Gadzookery and modern colloquialism […]

   2012, Dr. Catherine Butler, Hallie O'Donovan, quoting Geoffrey Trease, Reading History in Children's Books, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 155