caponesque

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

caponesque (comparative more caponesque, superlative most caponesque)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Caponesque.
   • 2010 February 13, Michael Strangeways, “Let’s All Go To The Movies!”, in Seattle Gay Scene‎:

     Equally wonderful is Doris Day as the virgin next door, Thelma Ritter as the sarcastic maid, and Tony Randall as the caponesque best friend/rival.

   • 2016, Robert Gottlieb, Avid Reader: A Life, page 23:

     All of Shakespeare, naturally, especially because the most brilliant of our teachers was a short, chubby man—caponesque, really—named Andrew Chiappe, whose intense lectures, punctuated by his blazing readings from the texts, were utterly thrilling.

   • 2018 February 16, Jody, “Goodbye, Mr Brandis. Good Riddance”, in Quadrant Online‎:

     Thank you Professor Allan. Absolutely nails the issues with this caponesque, morally ambivalent, strutting UN wannabee.

Etymology 2

From capon +‎ -esque.

Adjective

caponesque (comparative more caponesque, superlative most caponesque)

1. Like a capon.
   • 2011, Richard Girling, Rubbish!: Dirt On Our Hands And Crisis Ahead:

     They manage only a caponesque 16 per cent of the natives 'breeding rate; and, lacking a home river, they have no instinct to return to it.

   • 2012, Jason Hurlburt, Cold Blood, page 173:

     The chickenesque youth led to caponesque youth, akin to a plantation or a quasi-plantation.