"caponesque" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010 February 13, Michael Strangeways, “Let’s All Go To The Movies!”, in Seattle Gay Scene:",
          "text": "Equally wonderful is Doris Day as the virgin next door, Thelma Ritter as the sarcastic maid, and Tony Randall as the caponesque best friend/rival.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Robert Gottlieb, Avid Reader: A Life, page 23:",
          "text": "All of Shakespeare, naturally, especially because the most brilliant of our teachers was a short, chubby man—caponesque, really—named Andrew Chiappe, whose intense lectures, punctuated by his blazing readings from the texts, were utterly thrilling.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 February 16, Jody, “Goodbye, Mr Brandis. Good Riddance”, in Quadrant Online:",
          "text": "Thank you Professor Allan. Absolutely nails the issues with this caponesque, morally ambivalent, strutting UN wannabee.",
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  "etymology_text": "From capon + -esque.",
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          "ref": "2011, Richard Girling, Rubbish!: Dirt On Our Hands And Crisis Ahead:",
          "text": "They manage only a caponesque 16 per cent of the natives 'breeding rate; and, lacking a home river, they have no instinct to return to it.",
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          "ref": "2012, Jason Hurlburt, Cold Blood, page 173:",
          "text": "The chickenesque youth led to caponesque youth, akin to a plantation or a quasi-plantation.",
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          "text": "All of Shakespeare, naturally, especially because the most brilliant of our teachers was a short, chubby man—caponesque, really—named Andrew Chiappe, whose intense lectures, punctuated by his blazing readings from the texts, were utterly thrilling.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 February 16, Jody, “Goodbye, Mr Brandis. Good Riddance”, in Quadrant Online:",
          "text": "Thank you Professor Allan. Absolutely nails the issues with this caponesque, morally ambivalent, strutting UN wannabee.",
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        }
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