blimpish

blimpish
blimpishly, adv.blimpishness, n.
/blim"pish/, adj. (sometimes cap.)
pompously reactionary: the blimpish attitudes of the old colonialists.
[1935-40; COLONEL BLIMP + -ISH1]

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