Nabokovism

Noun

 * 1) An attitude or turn of phrase characteristic of the Russian-American novelist  (1899-1977).
 * 2) * 1979, The Spectator (volume 243, part 2)
 * Nabokovisms, such as his description of cheerful Soviet propaganda as 'this pail of milk of human kindness with a dead rat at the bottom'.
 * 1) * 1979, The Spectator (volume 243, part 2)
 * Nabokovisms, such as his description of cheerful Soviet propaganda as 'this pail of milk of human kindness with a dead rat at the bottom'.