gadzookery

English

Etymology

From gadzooks +‎ -ery.

Noun

gadzookery (countable and uncountable, plural gadzookeries)

1. The use of archaism, tushery.
   • 1957, William F. Friedman, Elizabeth S. Friedman, The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined‎^[1], Reprint edition, Cambridge Univ Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 57:

     By anagramming letters and altering the order of words, he produces two quatrains, which we content merely to quote as examples of gadzookery.

   • 2002, David Langford, The Complete Critical Assembly‎^[2], Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 137:

     Her spare prose and dialogue give a period flavour without the dread excesses of gadzookery.

   • 2004, Peter Hunt, International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature‎^[3], Routledge, →ISBN, page 421:

     The cladding is often gadzookery but the story motifs […]

   • 2009, Helen Hackett, Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths‎^[4], Princeton Univ. Press, →ISBN, page 60:

     […] inspiring a whole genre of pseudo-Elizabethan fiction, sometimes described as "tushery" or "gadzookery."

   • 2012, Dr. Catherine Butler, Hallie O'Donovan, quoting Geoffrey Trease, Reading History in Children's Books‎^[5], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 155:

     […] a middle course, avoiding both Gadzookery and modern colloquialism […]

See also

• tushery

References

• “gadzookery”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.