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单词 falstaffian
释义 fal·staff·ian
\(ˈ)fȯlz|tafēən, -l|st-, -taaf-, -taif-, -tȧf-\ adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Sir John Falstaff, character in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV + English -ian
1. : resembling the fat, jovial, humorous, dissolute Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff
 < a Falstaffian figure, fantastically overfed and fat — C.G.Bowers >
: like that of Sir John Falstaff
 < the romanticism of Brahmin culture with all Falstaffian vulgarity deleted — V.L.Parrington >
2. : resembling the ragged regiment raised by Sir John Falstaff
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