ESQuire

The suffix ESQUE can be used to derive an adjective from a noun, and is most often used to do so when the noun is actually a proper name. Perhaps the most common such formation is Kafkaesque, meant to a situation that is alien, illogical, paradoxical.

• Bigfoot-esque:

  "This year has been particularly illustrative, as the fake outrage machine has caricatured itself like a Bigfoot-esque monster truck in a desperate bid for attention."

  Salon, 23 December 2011.
• Carteresque:

  "Obama's Carteresque Plan for Iran"

  "Human Events" Headline, November 12 2010.
• Kennedyesque:

  Is Obama More Kennedyesque Than He'd Like?

  Vanity Fair, 10 December 2009.
• Lincolnesque:

  Obama's Lincolnesque Speech

  The Root, 13 January 2011.
• Nixonesque:

  "A NIXONESQUE MOVE FROM TEAM OBAMA"

  New York Post Headline, 1 November 2008.
• Reaganesque:

  Obama's Tucson Speech Was Reagan-esque

  US News, 13 January 2011.
• Trumanesque:

  New York: A Trumanesque Comeback

  Time, 31 October 1969.