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sardoodledom

noun
/sɑː(ɹ)ˈduːdəldəm/

Etymology

Blend of Sardou + doodle + -dom, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou. Coined by Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist George Bernard Shaw who first used it on the 1 June, 1895 in the Saturday Review when criticising Sardou's well-made plays.

  1. derived from *-dōmaz✻
  2. inherited from *-dōm✻
  3. inherited from -dōm — “-dom: state, condition, power, authority, property, right, office, quality”
  4. inherited from -dom
  5. compounded as sardoodledom — “Sardou + doodle + -dom”

Definitions

  1. Well-made works of drama that have trivial, insignificant, or melodramatic plots.

    • Naturally this critic loses no chance to express his contempt for what he calls “Sardoodledom:” the cult of the “wellmade” play. He gives M. Sardou no bail, and barely allows Mr. Pinero to go at large on good behavior.
    • What is new is that we have in movies an art form so exclusively given over to Sardoodledom that a Yale professor thinks that Sardoodledom is ingrained in the celluloid.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of sardoodledom.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA