"Withnailesque" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003, Rocco Coronato, Jonson Versus Bakhtin: Carnival and the Grotesque, page viii:",
          "text": "A friendly duo, Sharon Ruston and James Kidd, ushered me into the distinctively Withnailesque student community in Liverpool, as well as the rudiments of the art of surviving in a crowded room where everyone's smoking, chatting, chanting and drinking (often simultaneously) […]",
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          "ref": "2008, Stephen E. Andrews, Duncan Bowis, 100 Must-read Books for Men, page 86:",
          "text": "Filled with sharp Cymric wit, Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics is not just an extremely funny book, but a quintessential chronicle of seventies rock that is soon to be immortalised as a feature film. Leonard effortlessly conjures up dozens of Withnailesque anecdotes […]",
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        "Reminiscent of Withnail and I (1987), a British black comedy film about two young, unemployed, binge-drinking actors living in a squalid flat in 1960s London."
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