tushery

British  

/ ˈtʌʃərɪ /

noun

1. literary the use of affectedly archaic language in novels, etc

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Etymology

Origin of tushery

coined by Robert Louis _Stevenson , from _tush ¹ + _-ery

Example Sentences

I have had to leave FONTAINEBLEAU, when three hours would finish it, and go full-tilt at tushery for a while.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

It is not, as you might assume, a costume novel of eighteenth-century tushery.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 by Various

Should he err on one side, he is in the bogs of tushery: on the other, he commits that fault of self-conscious, over-daring modernization, of which Mr. Shaw has been so guilty.

From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

I have had to leave Fontainebleau, when three hours would finish it, and go full-tilt at tushery for a while.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Realistic pathos may have its Dobbin or Tom Pinch, but the wild and whirling episodes of tushery demand the satisfactory finish hallowed by custom.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 by Various