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Etymology 1
Adjective
caponesque (comparative more caponesque, superlative most caponesque)
- Alternative letter-case form of Caponesque
2010 February 13, Michael Strangeways, “Let’s All Go To The Movies!”, in Seattle Gay Scene:Equally wonderful is Doris Day as the virgin next door, Thelma Ritter as the sarcastic maid, and Tony Randall as the caponesque best friend/rival.
2016, Robert Gottlieb, Avid Reader: A Life, page 23:All of Shakespeare, naturally, especially because the most brilliant of our teachers was a short, chubby man—caponesque, really—named Andrew Chiappe, whose intense lectures, punctuated by his blazing readings from the texts, were utterly thrilling.
2018 February 16, Jody, “Goodbye, Mr Brandis. Good Riddance”, in Quadrant Online:Thank you Professor Allan. Absolutely nails the issues with this caponesque, morally ambivalent, strutting UN wannabee.
Etymology 2
From capon + -esque.
Adjective
caponesque (comparative more caponesque, superlative most caponesque)
- Like a capon.
2011, Richard Girling, Rubbish!: Dirt On Our Hands And Crisis Ahead:They manage only a caponesque 16 per cent of the natives 'breeding rate; and, lacking a home river, they have no instinct to return to it.
2012, Jason Hurlburt, Cold Blood, page 173:The chickenesque youth led to caponesque youth, akin to a plantation or a quasi-plantation.