Lord Dundreary
His name gave rise to two eponyms rarely heard today: Dundrearies were a particular style of facial hair taking the form of exaggeratedly bushy sideburns, also called, dundreary whiskers. They were popular between 1840 and 1870 and in England were called, Piccadilly weepers.[1]
"Dundrearyisms" were expanded malapropisms in the form of twisted and nonsensical aphorisms in the style of Lord Dundreary (e.g. "birds of a feather gather no moss"). These enjoyed a brief vogue.
Charles Kingsley wrote an essay entitled, "Speech of Lord Dundreary in Section D, on Friday Last, On the Great Hippocampus Question", a parody of debates about evolutionary theory in the form of a nonsensical speech supposed to have been written by Dundreary.[2]
References
- ↑ dundrearies, Merriam-Webster Word of the Day, August 23, 2012
- ↑ Charles Kingsley (1861) "Speech of Lord Dundreary in Section D, on Friday Last, On the Great Hippocampus Question"
- Michael Diamond, Victorian Sensation, London: Anthem, 2003, ISBN 1-84331-150-X, pp. 266–268
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Dundreary, Lord". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.