Eccentricity
206. Eccentricity
- Addams Family weird family, presented in grotesque domesticity. [TV: Terrace, I, 29]
- Boynton, Nanny travels with set of Encyclopaedia Britannica to settle disputes. [Am. Lit.: “Percy” in Stories, 634–644]
- Dick, Mr. odd but harmless old gentleman. [Br. Lit.: David Copperfield]
- Doolittle, Doctor veterinarian who talks to animals. [Children’s Lit.: Dr. Doolittle ]
- Flite, Miss “ancient” ward in Chancery. [Br. Lit.: Bleak House ]
- Great-Aunt Dymphna outlandish dresser who pointedly doesn’t eat meat. [Children’s Lit.: The Growing Summer, Fisher 124–127]
- Havisham, Miss jilted bride turns into witchlike old woman. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations ]
- Longstocking, Pippi outrageous, rebellious, imaginative child. [Children’s Lit.: Pippi Longstocking ]
- Madeline individualist; only girl “out of line.” [Children’s Lit.: Madeline, Fisher, 196]
- Madwoman of Chaillot delightfully pixilated old woman manages to exploit the Parisian exploiters. [Fr. Lit.: The Madwoman of Chaillot, Benét, 618]
- Pickwick, Mr. (Samuel) jolly “conformist” who understands anything but the obvious. [Br. Lit.: Pickwick Papers ]
- Poppins, Mary English nanny who practises levitation, flies up chimneys, etc. [Children’s Lit.: Mary Poppins, Fisher, 218]
- Salus, St. Simeon behaved queerly to share outcasts’ contempt. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 311]
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eccentricity, in astronomy: see orbit.
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