- Lord
Dundreary is a
character of the 1858
English play Our
American Cousin by Tom Taylor. He is a good-natured,
brainless aristocrat. The role was created...
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character pla**** by
Joseph Jefferson, and
Edward Askew Sothern playing Lord
Dundreary. The play's long-running
London production in 1861 was also successful...
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actor known for his
comic roles in
Britain and America,
particularly Lord
Dundreary in Our
American Cousin. He was also
known for his many
practical jokes...
- Fox News. Anti-proverb
Bushism Catachresis Chernomyrdinka Colemanballs Dundrearyism Error (linguistics)
Freudian slip
Goldwynisms Homonym Johnny Dangerously...
- the play, Lord
Dundreary is a
sympathetic character who
constantly utters confused catch phrases known at that time as
Dundrearyisms (similar to modern...
- the next year he pla****
Jeffery Panton in The Two
Virtues and
Dundreary in Lord
Dundreary. In 1916, he pla**** the
title character in
David Garrick, a role...
- in the
title rôle and the
English actor Edward Askew Sothern as Lord
Dundreary.
unknown date –
Khachatur Abovian's
historical novel Wounds of Armenia:...
- to a 400-night run of Our
American Cousin, with
Edward Sothern as Lord
Dundreary. The play's
success brought the word "dreary" into
common use. Robertson's...
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brainless aristocrat Lord
Dundreary, from an 1858 play. His name gave rise to two
eponyms – "
Dundrearies" and "
Dundrearyisms". The idle,
affable and dim-witted...
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Sonnemann was "a large,
portly man, with
whiskers like Lord
Dundreary,"
wrote an
English contemporary, but "he
dresses with a
neatness and
elegance quite...
