Ellenesque

English

Etymology

From Ellen +‎ -esque.

Adjective

Ellenesque (comparative more Ellenesque, superlative most Ellenesque)

1. Characteristic of someone named Ellen.
   • 1914, Mary Heaton Vorse, The Heart’s Country, Boston, Mass, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; The Riverside Press Cambridge, page 113:

     It had seemed to me sort of an Ellenesque thing to have happened, charming and delightful, though I had paid no attention to her belief that he was coming back.

   • 1931 January 26, “Middlebro’s M.P.”, in The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, volume XLI, number 22, Winnipeg, Man., page 11:

     A final Ellenesque reflection: “Such a lady is too expensive a product to maintain a falling empire.”

   • 1989, Seymour Epstein, Light, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 154:

     Ellen did that thing she always does under stress: She touched her upper lip with the tip of her tongue, and she veiled her eyes, and she allowed her features to settle into that Ellenesque composure.

   • 2007, Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion, Kensington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 154:

     As she sat next to Ellen at lunch, I noticed how pale her complexion was, even in comparison to Ellen, who I thought was the whitest person I had ever seen. There was no mystery where she took her fashion cues from. She sported an Ellenesque aqua sweater set that day complete with matching headband.

   1. Characteristic of Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958), American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer.
      • 1996 August 29, “‘Ellen’ finds fan, mimic”, in Star Tribune, volume XV, number 147, page B4:

        Wilson tipped off her cousin Courtney Wilson, “That’s Ellen.” Degeneres^[sic] looked up and gave Tiff “a very, very pleasant smile, kind of letting us know it was she.” To jar Courtney’s memory, Tiff lapsed into some Ellenesque silliness — dancing, slapping her tiny behind and singing “and booty slap, and booty slap. She did that booty-slap routine on some music awards show.”

      • 1997 October 6, Suzanne P. Johnson, “In Ellen’s footsteps”, in The Commercial Appeal, 158th year, number 279, Memphis, Tenn., page A9:

        If I had known that this innocuous-sounding PG-13 movie about a man falsely (I thought) accused of being gay was really an Ellenesque coming out with a huge message to teenagers that “hey, it’s OK!”, I wouldn’t have attended myself, let alone taken my 14-year-old son.

      • 2004 May 23, Lynn Elber, “Ellen DeGeneres Savors Her Rebound, Emmys”, in The Signal, page B6:

        After DeGeneres displayed a picture of her overweight cat, “suddenly people sent in pictures of their fat cats,” she said. (She continues on in her meandering, charmingly Ellenesque fashion: “Some of them we don’t even show because I feel like, ‘Oh, my God, this animal’s going to blow up in a second.’ Now I’m realizing my animal’s not fat at all.”)