The Collaborative International Dictionary
Falstaffian \Falstaffian\ adj. of or pertaining to Falstaff, a character in Shakespeare's plays.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"fat, humorous, jovial," 1782, from Shakespeare's character.
Usage examples of "falstaffian".
The Falstaffian one waited till she was out of sight and hearing before opening new subjects of conversation.
His ample coat, too, I see, with its broad flaps and many buttons and generous cuffs, and beneath it the long, still more copiously buttoned waistcoat, arching in front of the fine crescentic, almost semi-lunar Falstaffian prominence, involving no less than a dozen of the above-mentioned buttons, and the strong legs with their sturdy calves, fitting columns of support to the massive body and solid, capacious brain enthroned over it.
It was a spectacle to stir the dullest soul when this gallant band marched out of the yard in full regimentals, with Captain Dove a solemn, big-headed boy of eleven issuing his orders with the gravity of a general, and his Falstaffian regiment obeying them with more docility than skill.
I looked out of the window in time to see the driver of a very muddy Range Rover holding a door open and helping the Falstaffian figure of Silas Gaunt as he climbed laboriously out of the front passenger seat.
He was a lawman and a tourist attraction, a Falstaffian figure equally adept with his fists and his grin.
Three Musketeers of Space, John Star, Jay Kalaam and Hal Samdu, accompanied by a rocket-age, lock-picking Falstaffian replica, set out to a rousing series of adventures to discover the secret of AKKA, the ultimate weapon.
On the other side of the road grass alternated with managed forest, grass patrolled by falstaffian rhinos, who marked their territory with clouds of secretions expelled, pumped even, from their rear ends.
His shoulders and arms and Falstaffian belly looked ready to burst his T-shirt.
He was in his late teens, dressed in the dark well cut suit that befitted the heir to a gastronomic mecca, but it was difficult to imagine him presiding over it with the sort of passion that his Falstaffian grandpa never failed to show.
Her glance, falling on his Falstaffian girth, reminded her and her eyes twinkled.
Presently the fattest one, a real Falstaffian man, came back to the front door and rang a thundering peal.
Amongst these aircrews, however, his slight paunch was Falstaffian, his pate Pickwickian and his cheerful nose Cyrano-like.
Smith is one of the men set apart by nature to perpetuate the Don Quixote type of beauty, just as I am doomed with the lapse of time to approximate the Falstaffian type.
A huge man stood behind it, his vest covering a once-white apron that encircled his Falstaffian stomach.
It was like the Falstaffian laughter of the duck, without its ring of honesty.