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Shteyngartian

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English

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Etymology

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From Shteyngart +‎ -ian.

Adjective

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Shteyngartian (comparative more Shteyngartian, superlative most Shteyngartian)

  1. Relating or characteristic of the works of Soviet-born American writer Gary Shteyngart.
    • 2014 February 28, Dwight Garner, “’Quesadillas,’ by Juan Pablo Villalobos”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-10-24:
      In a poor man's quesadilla, we learn, in a Shteyngartian detail, "the presence of cheese was literary: you opened one up and instead of adding melted cheese my mother had written the word 'cheese' on the surface of the tortilla."