"Pooterish" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the name of the character Charles Pooter in George and Weedon Grossmith's 1892 novel The Diary of a Nobody.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "more Pooterish",
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    {
      "form": "most Pooterish",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, The Listener - Volume 103, page 378",
          "text": "The volume begins, though, with Byron being petty and Pooterish — if it is possible for such a non-family man to be Pooterish.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Chris Rojek, Brit-Myth: Who Do the British Think They Are?",
          "text": "The vegetative eugenics practised in mild-mannered cul-de-sacs, the extreme prejudice of poisoning some blameless green thing while feeding another, are symptoms of Pooterish yearning for a fascist order (p. 161).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Tony Whitehead, Mike Leigh, page 43",
          "text": "That said, it produces a great comic creation in Alan Dixon (Richard Kane), a splendidly Pooterish middle-aged clerk, fixated with unctuous reverence on the activities of British royalty and the aristocracy, including one or two of the firm's clients.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Characteristic of the character Charles Pooter; of modest social status, especially when having pretensions of greater significance and status."
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      "wikipedia": [
        "Charles Pooter"
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  "word": "Pooterish"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the name of the character Charles Pooter in George and Weedon Grossmith's 1892 novel The Diary of a Nobody.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more Pooterish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most Pooterish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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        {
          "ref": "1980, The Listener - Volume 103, page 378",
          "text": "The volume begins, though, with Byron being petty and Pooterish — if it is possible for such a non-family man to be Pooterish.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Chris Rojek, Brit-Myth: Who Do the British Think They Are?",
          "text": "The vegetative eugenics practised in mild-mannered cul-de-sacs, the extreme prejudice of poisoning some blameless green thing while feeding another, are symptoms of Pooterish yearning for a fascist order (p. 161).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Tony Whitehead, Mike Leigh, page 43",
          "text": "That said, it produces a great comic creation in Alan Dixon (Richard Kane), a splendidly Pooterish middle-aged clerk, fixated with unctuous reverence on the activities of British royalty and the aristocracy, including one or two of the firm's clients.",
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