Chaplinesque

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English

Etymology

From Chaplin +‎ -esque.

Adjective

Chaplinesque (comparative more Chaplinesque, superlative most Chaplinesque)

  1. Reminiscent of Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (1889–1977), English comic actor and film director of the silent film era.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 162:
      One of these , When in Doubt, Take the Underground (1913), depicts a dazed, Chaplinesque man consulting his watch and looking perplexed. Well, he would look perplexed - he hasn't yet noticed the light of the Underground station sign behind him.

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