Barriesqueadj.

Brit.

/barɪˈɛsk/, U.S.

/ˌbɛriˈɛsk/

Forms: 1900s– Barrie-esque, 1900s– Barriesque, 1900s– Barryesque (irregular).

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Barrie , -esque suffix.

Etymology: < the name of Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860–1937), Scottish journalist, playwright, and novelist + -esque suffix.

Of or relating to J. M. Barrie; characteristic or suggestive of, or resembling, his works, esp. Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up (see Peter Pan n.); (often) spec. whimsical, childlike.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective]

dreaminga1500

fantasied1590

chimerizing1604

vaporous1605

imaginative1626

whimsy1637

airy1643

whimmed1654

chimerical1660

figmentitious1660

notional1664

visionary1712

viewy1848

Barriesque1894

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adjective] > style of specific writer

Johnsonian1775

Ossianic1788

Johnsonese1851

Macaulayesque1856

Macaulayish1865

Voltairianized1872

Macaulayan1887

Ossianesque1889

Barriesque1894

Ouidaesque1909

1894 Aberdeen Weekly Jrnl. 25 June 5/1 A Barriesque explanation is given of the coming marriage of the author of ‘The Little Minister’ and Miss Mary Ansell.

1928 H. Swaffer in Sunday Express 26 Feb. 5/3 She is full of little Barriesque ideas. The whole world seems a great big game to her. She likes to play, just as a child would like to do.

1938 Mind 47 362 Eddington's Barryesque picture of a measuring rod as a bewildered, wandering child which ‘wants to do just as it did before’.

1957 P. Coveney Poor Monkey x. 214 Walpole never attempted another Barriesque fantasy.

2004 Guardian (Nexis) 27 Sept. 24 What follows is a characteristically Barriesque fable about the mutually obsessive needs of mothers and ‘sons’.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	barriesque
释义	Barriesqueadj. Brit. /barɪˈɛsk/, U.S. /ˌbɛriˈɛsk/ Forms: 1900s– Barrie-esque, 1900s– Barriesque, 1900s– Barryesque (irregular). Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Barrie , -esque suffix. Etymology: < the name of Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860–1937), Scottish journalist, playwright, and novelist + -esque suffix. Of or relating to J. M. Barrie; characteristic or suggestive of, or resembling, his works, esp. Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up (see Peter Pan n.); (often) spec. whimsical, childlike. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective] dreaminga1500 fantasied1590 chimerizing1604 vaporous1605 imaginative1626 whimsy1637 airy1643 whimmed1654 chimerical1660 figmentitious1660 notional1664 visionary1712 viewy1848 Barriesque1894 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adjective] > style of specific writer Johnsonian1775 Ossianic1788 Johnsonese1851 Macaulayesque1856 Macaulayish1865 Voltairianized1872 Macaulayan1887 Ossianesque1889 Barriesque1894 Ouidaesque1909 1894 Aberdeen Weekly Jrnl. 25 June 5/1 A Barriesque explanation is given of the coming marriage of the author of ‘The Little Minister’ and Miss Mary Ansell. 1928 H. Swaffer in Sunday Express 26 Feb. 5/3 She is full of little Barriesque ideas. The whole world seems a great big game to her. She likes to play, just as a child would like to do. 1938 Mind 47 362 Eddington's Barryesque picture of a measuring rod as a bewildered, wandering child which ‘wants to do just as it did before’. 1957 P. Coveney Poor Monkey x. 214 Walpole never attempted another Barriesque fantasy. 2004 Guardian (Nexis) 27 Sept. 24 What follows is a characteristically Barriesque fable about the mutually obsessive needs of mothers and ‘sons’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1894
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