A list of authors that have become adjectives (or should do)… Kafkaesque Dickensian Orwellian Byronic Woolfish Dickish Mannly Poetic Remarqueable Austentacious - ThreadSky

juliedoughty.bsky.social•34 days ago

Pinteresque? Not Pinterest!

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bridgo.bsky.social•34 days ago

Sadistic

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cnlibrarian.bsky.social•34 days ago

Thoreauvian

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merrybawz.bsky.social•34 days ago

Pratchettian

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cjbill.bsky.social•34 days ago

Has no one mentioned Swiftian yet?!

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writernatswift.bsky.social•33 days ago

No one has, and honestly I'm a little hurt.

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cjbill.bsky.social•33 days ago

In that case I have a modest proposal...

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billywm.bsky.social•34 days ago

Jokes aside I have seen "Phildickian" and like Grateful Dead fans are "Deadheads" fans think it's funny to call themselves Dickheads

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morganallano.bsky.social•33 days ago

Arendtian
Steinian
Hooksian
Hypatian
...

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huckle3erry.bsky.social•34 days ago

Sharp
Gentle
(lol)

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jwalls42.bsky.social•33 days ago

Grasious
Kingly
Poelish
Lemming

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jwalls42.bsky.social•33 days ago

Tolstoyian
Tolstoyian 2
Tolstoyian 3
Tolstoyian 4

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thecynicalist.bsky.social•34 days ago

Joycean?

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augustinemerganser.bsky.social•34 days ago

Vonnegutian

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lechatbon.bsky.social•34 days ago

Shakespearean
Brontean
Tolstoyan
ChekhovIan

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peterjosyph.bsky.social•34 days ago

All utopian novels really are Moreonic.

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stevefar.bsky.social•33 days ago

Please take Orwell off there. His little book written in 1948 ( published early 49), about his time in the WWII British propaganda department, is long overdue to go back to the social history section, where it belongs.

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nisaccom.bsky.social•34 days ago

Manly

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5by5nina.bsky.social•34 days ago

Joycey? Or getting joyced?

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ikjoyce.bsky.social•34 days ago

Joyced: forced to listen to someone's unbroken punctationally challenged waffling for what feels like an eternity.

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5by5nina.bsky.social•34 days ago

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animzovich.bsky.social•34 days ago

ReJoyced

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trumupusan.bsky.social•34 days ago

Trumpian

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brcrichton.bsky.social•34 days ago

As an author, could I put myself forward for 'Crichtonous' ?
Oh, wait...
On second thoughts...

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jkennedy60.bsky.social•34 days ago

#Steinbeckish

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jkennedy60.bsky.social•34 days ago

#Vonneguty

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adamcsharp.bsky.social•32 days ago

Sehr Vonnegut

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gewoonsimenwillem.bsky.social•34 days ago

Really 😳😯, I didn't knoww

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matthewpb.bsky.social•34 days ago

Shavian

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osteoconnor.bsky.social•34 days ago

Goethesque?

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polkium.bsky.social•34 days ago

Fuertecito (for Gloria Fuertes).

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seanking61.bsky.social•34 days ago

Wodehousian
Chandleresque

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drippysailor.bsky.social•34 days ago

From Dickish down, I was like “what?” “WAHT?”

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brianbyrne.bsky.social•34 days ago

I thought Game of Thrones was quite Martian...

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epicstoic.bsky.social•34 days ago

solzhenitsynistic
dostoevskyesque

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username53.bsky.social•33 days ago

Plathetic

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waltersnoot.bsky.social•34 days ago

Shavian

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beingjcmejiachang.bsky.social•34 days ago

Lovecraftian should be in the list.

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kumimono.bsky.social•34 days ago

I'll add Finnish author Minna Canth. Should work as is in English.....

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5by5nina.bsky.social•34 days ago

Good one 😎

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richardawkward.bsky.social•34 days ago

Waughlike

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richardawkward.bsky.social•34 days ago

And bookshops are Waughmongers

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gilibug.bsky.social•34 days ago

Waugh is me!

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andymacdee.bsky.social•34 days ago

Particularly Vile Borders.

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konallis.bsky.social•34 days ago

Oliphantine

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markscarbrough.bsky.social•34 days ago

Dante!

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adamcsharp.bsky.social•34 days ago

I like my books like my pasta... Al Dante

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usrbinprl.bsky.social•34 days ago

On a similar topic, I love the term Gormenghastly, used to describe bad gothic fiction, which I think I first saw Charles Stross use.

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ps-tricks.bsky.social•33 days ago

I'd make another Gormenghast pun, but I think all it'd do would make people groan(+/make people give me sweltering looks), despite the fact puns can be the peake of humour and sometimes just the thing

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felinecharpentier.bsky.social•33 days ago

Going to be slipping this into conversation today

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mbrowley.bsky.social•33 days ago

Peake humour, that is.

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davidlennardgijon.bsky.social•33 days ago

A lovely bit ot wordplay, but remember that Gormenghast is a masterpiece - a flawed one, to be sure - but a masterpiece nontheless

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usrbinprl.bsky.social•33 days ago

In the original context where I saw this Gormenghastly was being used to describe things like Gormenghast, but bad. It wasn't necessarily saying that Gornenghast itself was bad.

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davidlennardgijon.bsky.social•33 days ago

I had sort of hoped that you meant the word and not the work

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flicksfan.bsky.social•33 days ago

Indeed; sounds somewhat unfair to me. Even if the latter third should perhaps not have been published.

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davidlennardgijon.bsky.social•33 days ago

With you there... but Peake was a dying man, and knew it, while he was writing the last volume, and it shows

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mudwiggler.bsky.social•34 days ago

Ha!

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dfluke.net•33 days ago

in my circles, Strossian is a thing - usually re. mundane things involving technology or maths being cursed

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rainsurname.bsky.social•33 days ago

Love that Christopher Lee got to be in the adaptations of both of the major mid-century fantasy trilogies in the UK, both of which were written by men he knew.

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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social•33 days ago

"Strossian" might be an adjective worth keeping in my pocket.

I often think these days about the end of Accelerando, where the solar system end up one huge computer, and everything it is running is viruses and spam.

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vardassky.bsky.social•34 days ago

Dickish. 😂🤣

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chilltervention.bsky.social•34 days ago

Chillterventionist

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peterbanter.bsky.social•34 days ago

Dickish
Mannly
Poetic
are quite remarkable.

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peterbanter.bsky.social•34 days ago

Dantesque.

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diaeter.bsky.social•33 days ago

Pratchettly listed.

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ohdearwadawa.bsky.social•34 days ago

Sharpish nothing to do with you so?

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robmcfadden.bsky.social•34 days ago

Suesspicious

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adamcsharp.bsky.social•34 days ago

Needs to be added to the Verneacular

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robmcfadden.bsky.social•34 days ago

🎵 don't be suesspicious 🎵
🎵 don't be suesspicious 🎵

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khatie.bsky.social•34 days ago

Perfect 🧑‍🍳 👌

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pepromene8.bsky.social•34 days ago

Seusspicious

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simmsr.bsky.social•34 days ago

Rabelasian, Masochistic

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michaelbrunstrom.bsky.social•34 days ago

Beckettian

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knutcrosswords.bsky.social•34 days ago

Selfish

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davidmsim.bsky.social•34 days ago

Amish

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midcenturyfreak.bsky.social•34 days ago

Burked

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animzovich.bsky.social•34 days ago

Borked

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writernatswift.bsky.social•33 days ago

Sharp.

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narrowboatade.bsky.social•34 days ago

Tolkienesque?

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stopsigns.bsky.social•34 days ago

(in Alanis voice) Isn't it Byronic

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prb3981.bsky.social•34 days ago

Dickish like PKD?

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katedvm.bsky.social•34 days ago

Poetic! Inspired

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jacksonwilms.bsky.social•33 days ago

Waughlike

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colleenmad.bsky.social•34 days ago

Shakespearean

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sophietica.bsky.social•34 days ago

Sapphic

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rockyroader.bsky.social•34 days ago

Swiftian is definitely used. Also Yeatsian, Shavian, Beckettian.

Flann O'Brien deliberately chose that moniker so he couldn't be imitated or compared!

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rockyroader.bsky.social•34 days ago

Vonnegutwrenching?
Woolfine?

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bad-kevin-person.bsky.social•34 days ago

Quixotic is a fave, though named for the character. Thanks to English prof dad for dropping this at the dinner table growing up.

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richardbowes.bsky.social•34 days ago

Homererotic

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osgood9.bsky.social•34 days ago

Mannly

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osgood9.bsky.social•34 days ago

Camusing

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osgood9.bsky.social•34 days ago

Tolstoystory

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adamcsharp.bsky.social•34 days ago

Gogolbox

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osgood9.bsky.social•34 days ago

I had to Gogol that

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docnoir13.bsky.social•33 days ago

Absolutely

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mujib.bsky.social•34 days ago

Frosty

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magus-smillsoid.bsky.social•34 days ago

Adamsonic.

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magus-smillsoid.bsky.social•32 days ago

That refers to Douglas Adams, BTW.

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shirpeled.bsky.social•33 days ago

Love Austentacious

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tondalicious.bsky.social•34 days ago

Trumpish

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kristofberckmans.bsky.social•34 days ago

Vonnegutsy
Kerouacky
Hellerious
Gassy

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johnwbuaas.bsky.social•34 days ago

Faulknervy

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rugbyfan.bsky.social•34 days ago

Pratchettian should be a thing.

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jmarkleonard.bsky.social•34 days ago

Austentatious exists!

https://www.austentatiousimpro.com/

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lila7.bsky.social•34 days ago

They think they’re funny.

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whoisnot.bsky.social•34 days ago

Lynchian
Ballardian
Lovecraftian

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whoisnot.bsky.social•34 days ago

furthermore:

Borgesian
Melvillesque
Burgessian

(Pratchettian, Yeatsian, Shakespearean, and others mentioned by others are also awesome)

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ahweise.bsky.social•33 days ago

Dumasian

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drewmelbourne.com•33 days ago

I think they just call that "being a Dumas."

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ahweise.bsky.social•31 days ago

I heard it as someone meaning a thing taking an unreasonable amount of time to happen. Dumasian.

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witchesforhope.bsky.social•34 days ago

Lynchian

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itsjustbeej.bsky.social•34 days ago

Vonnegutian?

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knightshiff.bsky.social•33 days ago

Lovecraftian?

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erisven.bsky.social•33 days ago

Tolkien?

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jcarreirawriter.bsky.social•33 days ago

Burnsy. Happy Burns Night!

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deityblade.bsky.social•34 days ago

i use Blytonesque frequently

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caitrionas.bsky.social•34 days ago

I want to live in a Blytonesque world!

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lila7.bsky.social•34 days ago

???

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lila7.bsky.social•34 days ago

😡

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deityblade.bsky.social•34 days ago

what's wrong bud

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ikjoyce.bsky.social•34 days ago

Greenery
Planted
Wildeness

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ikjoyce.bsky.social•34 days ago

Randy : as useful as a non-committal book of maps.

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adamcsharp.bsky.social•34 days ago

Yes! I've always felt that incels who are fans of Ayn Rand should officially be known as "Randy Bastards"

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ikjoyce.bsky.social•34 days ago

Or my work username: Joyceian.

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stephenburdman.bsky.social•34 days ago

Shakespearean

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raoufhimself.bsky.social•33 days ago

I see „Lovecraftian“ is missing

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emdrss.bsky.social•34 days ago

Hugolian
Proustian

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duckswithpants.bsky.social•34 days ago

"ducky" and "pants" should totally be in the list

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fatlegted42.bsky.social•34 days ago

Tolkienesque

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jmfine.bsky.social•34 days ago

Luigiesque

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yaschaisdead.bsky.social•33 days ago

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rikules.bsky.social•34 days ago

may i offer Trumpism to include them all together?

trumpian
trumpist
trumpenstatious

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126ericj.bsky.social•34 days ago

You misspelled asshole, stupid, and tyrant

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neilserven.bsky.social•34 days ago

Plathetic
Moshfeghurative
Nabakovbeat
Sartreorial

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lupineturpentine.bsky.social•34 days ago

yknow, "Dickensian" doesn't get used nearly as much as it should.

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adamcsharp.bsky.social•32 days ago

I believe because in modern vernacular we’d now describe something as having big Dickens energy instead

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areyoucertain.bsky.social•28 days ago

You just reminded me of The Wire's last season, and the big cheese's fixation on a Dickensian angle for a story.

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a2koc.bsky.social•33 days ago

Camusing
Seusspect
Angelooney
Scarry

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kitcurry.bsky.social•34 days ago

Nabakovert
Capotent
Pynchian
David Foster Wallish

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youwriteuniversity.bsky.social•33 days ago

No Sappho?

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bubbajimbo.bsky.social•34 days ago

Joycean also.

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sparkyl.bsky.social•34 days ago

StanLeeian?

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steevhead13.bsky.social•34 days ago

Marvelous!

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gilibug.bsky.social•34 days ago

Some authors are verbs.

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gilibug.bsky.social•34 days ago

See also:

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ere-i-am-jh.bsky.social•33 days ago

I watched some of the original 70s Muppet Show recently, and they make dozens of this format "-ing" jokes, across many episodes.

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gilibug.bsky.social•33 days ago

It’s a very, very old joke.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/02/like-kipling/

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gilibug.bsky.social•34 days ago

I was once described in a book as a “Salingeresque” child. Which I took to mean, “too smart for her own good”.

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archaeomeg.bsky.social•34 days ago

Austentacious 😍 fantastic adjective

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lila7.bsky.social•34 days ago

Look them up. But they are not fantastic.

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archaeomeg.bsky.social•34 days ago

I don’t need to look up Jane Austen, I’ve already read her books.

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ere-i-am-jh.bsky.social•33 days ago

"Austentatious" is a successful touring Jane Austen themed comedy improv show.

Not my thing, but a thing nonetheless.

https://www.austentatiousimpro.com/

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quintusslide.bsky.social•34 days ago

Proustian. Usually describing a sentence that is 500 words or longer.

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dawnchap.bsky.social•34 days ago

I've heard them used.

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richardwainman.bsky.social•33 days ago

Waughlike
Janssonic
Le Guinsome

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weedleplop.bsky.social•34 days ago

Lynchian, please

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weedleplop.bsky.social•34 days ago

though not an author I guess....

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mmussari.bsky.social•34 days ago

Kierkegaardian
Miltonian
Faulknerian
Andersenesque

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kurtstat.bsky.social•34 days ago

Manchester Kierkegaardian

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fyodor76.bsky.social•34 days ago

Everything in my world is Dostoevskian.

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alxicy.bsky.social•33 days ago

Miltonic

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youngbeard.bsky.social•31 days ago

I have so many Philip K Dick books to give away that I'm going to set up a table at the market. What should the banner read? Free dick? Welcome Dickheads?

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toomuchsinging.bsky.social•34 days ago

Brontësaurous

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definitelydelilah.bsky.social•34 days ago

Few there I didn’t know.You are a veritable fountain of useful knowledge. Thank you young man!

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spaceman1975.bsky.social•34 days ago

Suessical?

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sirharrycane.bsky.social•34 days ago

What about Kingly?

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madi-faith.bsky.social•31 days ago

a list of artists that have become adjectives (or should do)...

Duchampion
Picassous
Kandinskian
Litchensteinic
Monetic
Daliant
Miroism
Banksiful
Munchible
Krugerable
Van-Goghable
O'Keeffeful
Matissian
Hockneable
Pollockish
Warholic
Degasian
Haringly
Magrittense
Cezannesque
Kahloless

🎨

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madi-faith.bsky.social•34 days ago

Dahling
Tolstoic
Blytonic
Dumastic
Sendakial
Nonsuessical
Thackeraesque
Murpurgous
Carrolless
Susessish
Kiplingible
Hardious
Eyresque
Potterial
Twainial
Plathful
Elliotic

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augustinemerganser.bsky.social•34 days ago

Isn't it Byronic, dontcha think?

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madi-faith.bsky.social•34 days ago

"it's like Twain, on your wedding day..." 🎶🙃

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adamcsharp.bsky.social•34 days ago

It's a free McBride when you've already Kincaid

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augustinemerganser.bsky.social•34 days ago

It's Malcom Pryce, but it just isn't Blake

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madi-faith.bsky.social•34 days ago

...and Hughes would've thought, Literature.

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vohlos.bsky.social•34 days ago

Kingly?

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tracimb308.bsky.social•34 days ago

Machiavellian

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johnmcgooner.bsky.social•34 days ago

In Irish terms I'm sure I've heard Yeatsian, Wildean and Behanesque used?

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alsonamedphil.bsky.social•34 days ago

Platonic.

I wonder what he'd make of the current meaning...

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khatie.bsky.social•34 days ago

Dickish 😂

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skyfog.bsky.social•34 days ago

😃

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caroxmueller.bsky.social•26 days ago

Goethic
Schilleresque
Rilky
Mannic
Chandlerian
Twainy
Melvillain
Proustic
Churchilly

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sophistate.bsky.social•34 days ago

Asimovian

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superxbased.bsky.social•34 days ago

I am sorry, but 'poetic' comes from the noun 'poetry' (=ποίηση in greek), which literally translates to "to make".

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sirharrycane.bsky.social•34 days ago

Edgarellish would be an alternative.

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126ericj.bsky.social•34 days ago

That would put him in a pickle

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joannepaulson.bsky.social•33 days ago

Oooooo this is great!

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ezraedmond.bsky.social•34 days ago

I dare to dream about “Tolkienesque”, “Lemony Snickensian”, and “Robert Frostbitten”

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ps-tricks.bsky.social•33 days ago

I think more people might have gone with "Robert Frosty", but taking the less used path might have made all the difference.

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thekirz.bsky.social•33 days ago

@wendys-usa.com has entered the thread.

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wendys-usa.com•30 days ago

Wendy's has left the chat

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qgty.bsky.social•33 days ago

I've always wanted to rock tribute act using Middle Earth themes and characters:

Tolkein Heads.

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madi-faith.bsky.social•33 days ago

Lemony Snickensian! 👏🏻🤣

altho Snicketic or Snicketical are close contenders.

meanwhile, i dream of the day that Suessical and Nonsuessical are added to the dictionary. 🙃

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