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Wodehouse

NOUN
  1. English writer known for his humorous novels and stories (1881-1975)

How To Use Wodehouse In A Sentence

  • Jeeves' grave and sage philosophy towards booze is encapsulated perfectly at the end of another Wodehouse story.
  • Re-reading P G Wodehouse's The Code of the Woosters the other day reminded me of the many words in English which are the negatives of words whose positive forms are now obsolete or rare.
  • Literature's most renowned name-steal from sport is probably PG Wodehouse's blatant nick for Bertie Wooster's agelessly enduring manservant. From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating
  • But whereas we now also find the latter dated and their humour unappealing, Wodehouse remains in demand.
  • There is, finally, a particular resonance about that unclassifiable species of Wodehouse heroine who wears a monocle and sees courtship primarily as a series of knightly tests to be accomplished by her betrothed.
  • He is one of the richest characters in the whole of the Wodehouse creation, absolutely rounded and quite without flaw.
  • Wodehouse requires him to smuggle pearls across the Atlantic in a Mickey Mouse doll for his betrothed - the only true test of love, as anybody who smuggled pearls in Mickey Mice will know.
  • He is not the only actor to impersonate a butler in the Wodehouse canon.
  • So, dear lovers of what the beloved Wodehouse character Bertie Wooster calls ‘gaspers’ - don't try to kid yourself about smoking.
  • Wodehouse is loved by Indians who loathe Kipling and detest the Raj and all its works.
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