Falstaffian
adjective
Falstaffian is an adjective meaning “Having the traits of the comic character Falstaff: especially, corpulent and jolly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-L-S-T-A-F-F-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Falstaffian mean?
adjective
- 1
Having the traits of the comic character Falstaff: especially, corpulent and jolly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Falstaffian
- more Falstaffian comparative
- most Falstaffian superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Falstaffian?
Falstaffian appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Falstaffian come from?
From Falstaff + -ian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).