Adjective: Pooterish
Usage: UK
Usage: UK
- Being in the character of Pooter from "Diary of a Nobody": somewhat pompous, unintellectual and unimaginative (but basically well-meaning) traditionalist with an unexciting lifestyle; probably derogatory if used by a Guardian reader, more sympathetic if by a Telegraph reader
"His Pooterish obsession with social status was both amusing and pitiful"