Adjective : Falstaffian wit. From Dictionary.com.
He was a big man, about 300 pounds, sort of a Falstaffian figure. From Wordnik.com. [Press Gallery] Reference
A suppose you could make a case for Spitzer being a Falstaffian figure. From Wordnik.com. [From penetrating the world of prostitution to penetrating the prostitute.] Reference
He was a genuinely Falstaffian figure, beloved of all students and staff. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Goddess] Reference
It would have to be true gorging, a Falstaffian meal of calorically dense food. From Wordnik.com. [Fast way to better health | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
Her glance, falling on his Falstaffian girth, reminded her and her eyes twinkled. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
Deduction made for his Falstaffian speech, the amount was probably about eighty thousand. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
Molto Mario is the Falstaffian redhead known to millions from his earthy television performances. From Wordnik.com. [Fat Chef, Thin Chef] Reference
This Falstaffian scene of the hapless hypocrite demolishing an entire pig demonstrates comic genius. From Wordnik.com. [Free and Easy] Reference
Marty Kaplan, who worked closely with Donilon on Mondale's 1984 campaign, referred to him as "Falstaffian.". From Wordnik.com. [Politics and policy: Tom Donilon's rise to national security adviser] Reference
On the other hand, the novel's reach for the Whitmanesque--or, for that matter, Falstaffian--mode considerably exceeds its grasp. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
We can be quite sure that with that spirit of Falstaffian jollity Brown now at the helm that there will no such warnings this year. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-18] Reference
Master Yardstick yonder in those Falstaffian hose. From Wordnik.com. [To Have and to Hold] Reference
Yaman (vol.iv. 245) where we find the true Falstaffian touch. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Falstaffian regiment obeying them with more docility than skill. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Cousins] Reference
Cured venison hams, Falstaffian pies, and fat pigs 'pickled feet. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference
He repudiated his Falstaffian past of drinking and unaccomplishment. From Wordnik.com. [Steamboats Are Ruining Everything] Reference
Falstaffian assurance, gives them his own and the Earl of Southampton's. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592] Reference
Some of her suitors were widowers -- ancient of days, fat and Falstaffian. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference
Chris Dodd, a frat-boyish Falstaffian Senator, from a kinder, gentler age. From Wordnik.com. [The Corsair] Reference
It was like the Falstaffian laughter of the duck, without its ring of honesty. From Wordnik.com. [Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters] Reference
You cannot lay on the Falstaffian humour by a reasoning process from the outside. From Wordnik.com. [Platform Monologues] Reference
But I checked him in that Falstaffian vein, urging considerations of time and cookery. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
Falstaffian mirth; he goes along the highway, singing and dancing, distributing tracts. From Wordnik.com. [The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century] Reference
In doing this he reveals ethics, manners, and morals of a decidedly Falstaffian flavour. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592] Reference
(I'm determined to remain amiable these days, takingwhat comes my way with Falstaffian good humor.). From Wordnik.com. [East Brunswick Sentinel] Reference
Theirs is Falstaffian humour -- large and clustering: no fine strokes, but huge, rich-coloured sweeps. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
Presently the fattest one, a real Falstaffian man, came back to the front door and rang a thundering peal. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War] Reference
Self am pre-Falstaffian anti-delusionist, to whom all human honour rooted in a mess of profiteering stands. From Wordnik.com. [Jimgrim]
His body was a wine-pipe, or a rum-puncheon, or something of that character, and had a truly Falstaffian air. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4] Reference
At times he is primitive and coarse; but it is a Falstaffian note, the mark of universality rather than of limitation. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain]
Believes in dirty accost-ing. 3000 ducats a year, and he can be manipulated and brown-nosed by a certain Falstaffian sot. From Wordnik.com. [World of SL] Reference
But he did his best to hide these obvious disadvantages by a Falstaffian bonhomie, -- for Mr. Billings was growing stout. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
Mr. Wilson was a local humorist of the Falstaffian stripe, though not so much witty in himself as the cause of wit in others. From Wordnik.com. [The Stillwater Tragedy] Reference
In this reorganization, communities and peasants lost out - as did the old, Falstaffian core of masters of the waters and woods. From Wordnik.com. [Limited, Inc.] Reference
"It's like this," continued the Falstaffian one from Roosevelt Road: "In. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
Court and of courtiers of this day, and of many other matters of delight, "is full of Falstaffian paradox, and reminiscent of Justice. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592] Reference
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