Chaplinesque

English

Etymology

Chaplin +‎ -esque

Adjective

Chaplinesque (comparative more Chaplinesque, superlative most Chaplinesque)

1. Reminiscent of Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (1889–1977), English comic actor and film director of the silent film era.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 162:

     One of these [posters], When in Doubt, Take the Underground (1913), depicts a dazed, Chaplinesque man consulting his watch and looking perplexed. Well, he would look perplexed - he hasn't yet noticed the light of the Underground station sign behind him.

Translations

resembling Charlie Chaplin

• Czech: chaplinovský
• French: chaplinesque (fr)
• Russian: чарличаплиновский (čarličaplinovskij), чарличаплинский (čarličaplinskij)