tushery

British

/ ˈtʌʃərɪ /

noun

literary the use of affectedly archaic language in novels, etc

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Etymology

Origin of tushery

coined by Robert Louis _Stevenson , from _tush ¹ + _-ery

Example Sentences

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If you chose to blur your intelligence by writing romantic tushery, you must remember that by doing so you yielded to temptation just as much as I did when I forged Stevie's name.

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Should he err on one side, he is in the bogs of tushery: on the other, he commits that fault of self-conscious, over-daring modernization, of which Mr. Shaw has been so guilty.

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It is not, as you might assume, a costume novel of eighteenth-century tushery.

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Realistic pathos may have its Dobbin or Tom Pinch, but the wild and whirling episodes of tushery demand the satisfactory finish hallowed by custom.

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