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Bachelor, fairly flabby, like a cartoon colonel?
Answer for the clue "Bachelor, fairly flabby, like a cartoon colonel? ", 8 letters:
blimpish
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Word definitions for blimpish in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 blimp-like in appearance or size. 2 (context often capitalized English) pompously reactionary, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel%20Blimp.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
blimpish \blimpish\ adj. [from Colonel Blimp, a fictional character] pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic.
Usage examples of blimpish.
Perhaps Mr Orwell will regard this as another proof of his mystic and blimpish trinity.
Northcote, at S250 a day, to Major-General Frederick Dobson Middleton, the blimpish, walrusmoustached former commandant of the British military college at Sandhurst, who had been placed in charge of the Canadian militia.
This industry likes to pretend the producer is some sort of blimpish general dozing in his HQ while the crews fight the battle.
Whale pretends to be immensely fat and moves along the wall with a blimpish splay-legged waddle.
Carl Whale pretends to be immensely fat and moves along the wall with a blimpish splay-legged waddle.
And then I crumpled the letter up because I realized I was in serious danger of turning into one of the Colonel Blimp types who sat around me in considerable numbers, eating cornflakes or porridge with their blimpish wives, and without whom hotels like the Old England would not be able to survive.
She was driven from her country in nineteen thirty-nine, and hates the Russians more than the most blimpish Colonel Blimp in the country.