TURVEYDROP

PRONUNCIATION: (TUHR-vee-drop)

MEANING: noun: One who poses as a model of deportment: the way in which one conducts oneself.

ETYMOLOGY: After Mr. Turveydrop, a character overly concerned with deportment, in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House (1852). Earliest documented use: 1876. The adjectival form is Turveydropian.

NOTES: "Mr. Turveydrop...[i]n short...was deportment without depth, a walking, talking showroom dummy for etiquette."
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