Usually means: Affectedly intellectual or pedantic behavior.
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  1. Pooterish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Pooterish: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Pooterish: Wiktionary
  4. Pooterish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. Pooterish: Dictionary.com
  6. Pooterish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Characteristic of the character Charles Pooter; of modest social status, especially when having pretensions of greater significance and status.

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