Kinbotean
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editKinbotean (comparative more Kinbotean, superlative most Kinbotean)
- Of or relating to Charles Kinbote, the unreliable narrator in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire (1962).
Noun
editKinbotean (plural Kinboteans)
- (literature) A proponent of an interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire according to which the ostensible author John Shade is in fact an invention of the character Charles Kinbote.