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.

• basketball-esque:

  I remember our classes in Morals and Law in school, and the basketball-esque physique of our teacher, a philosopher, six-and-a-half feet tall.

  Georgi Tenev, 'Party Headquarters'.
• 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.
• Brueghelesque:

  "In winter they wrap their two-room cottages in maize stalks for extra insulation, and in spring they drown in Brueghelesque seas of knee-high mud."

  Anna Reid, 'Borderland: A journey through the history of Ukraine'.
• Carteresque:

  "Obama's Carteresque Plan for Iran"

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

  The fast-falling snow dipped brilliant - explosive, chrysanthemumesque - into the car headlights.

  John Updike, 'The Taste of Metal'.
• EAT A SANDWICH-esque:

  Look, HOLD A SEANCE is not exactly EAT A SANDWICH in its arbitrary verb-phrasiness, but it's definitely EAT A SANDWICH-esque.

  Rex Parker, 'Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword', 05 November 2022.
• Friday-esque:

  I was so bummed out by the thud of ISSUE in LEGAL ISSUE (3D: Basis for a case) that it was nice to get things moving in a livelier, more Friday-esque direction there in the middle of the grid with the MR./MRS. pairing.

  Rex Parker, 'Rex Parker does the NYT Crossword', 04 March 2022.
• Kennedyesque:

  Is Obama More Kennedyesque Than He'd Like?

  Vanity Fair, 10 December 2009.
• Lincolnesque:

  Obama's Lincolnesque Speech

  The Root, 13 January 2011.
• Mango-esque:

  In the bizarre Season 2 scene the duo become intimate with the aid of a mango (as in the fruit). But Bean said "I think they cut a bit out actually. Often the best work you do, where you're trying to push the boundaries, and the very nature of it is experimental, gets censored when TV companies or the advertisers say it's so much. It's a nice scene, quite surreal, dream-like and abstract. And mango-esque."

  K J Yossman, Variety, 8 August 2022.
• Nixonesque:

  "A NIXONESQUE MOVE FROM TEAM OBAMA"

  New York Post Headline, 1 November 2008.
• Opera-esque:

  As Cleo sings in Frank Loesser's opera-esque Broadway musical, "The Most Happy Fella?, ?But when you're just 27 in his book, gettin' took out is much more like gettin' took."

  John McWhorter, New York Times, 03 August 2022.
• Pynchonesque:

  "My goal in life is to become an adjective," Leonard said. "People should go around saying 'That was so Bankheadian.' Or: 'A little too Bankheadian for my taste.'
  "Bankheadian has a ring," Madeleine said.
  "It's better than Bankheadesque."
  "Or Bankheadish."
  "Ish is terrible all around. There's Joycean, Shakespearean, Faulknerian. But ish? Who is there who's an ish?"
  "Thomas Mannish?"
  "Kafkaesque," Leonard said. "Pynchonesque! See, Pynchon's already an adjective."

  Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Marriage Plot'.
• Reaganesque:

  Obama's Tucson Speech Was Reagan-esque

  US News, 13 January 2011.
• Trumanesque:

  New York: A Trumanesque Comeback

  Time, 31 October 1969.