Talk:Partridgean

There seems to be an additional sense, based on Swift's satire of John Partridge, which means "Undead; appearing to be alive but not actually being so."

Citations:


 * 1) 1898 A Short History of English Literature, George Saintsbury:
 * 2) * The notion of Chaucer as having flooded the language with French words in contradistinction to the sound Saxon vocabulary of his contemporary Langland died hard, and perhaps simulates life even yet; but its obstinacy in surviving is merely Partridgean.

Smurrayinchester (talk) 18:09, 30 May 2014 (UTC)