Crossword clues for blimpish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
blimpish \blimpish\ adj. [from Colonel Blimp, a fictional character] pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic.
Wiktionary
a. 1 blimp-like in appearance or size. 2 (context often capitalized English) pompously reactionary, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel%20Blimp.
WordNet
adj. 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.