sardoodledom

English

Etymology

Sardou (“French dramatist”) +‎ doodle +‎ -dom

The term was invented by George Bernard Shaw who first used it on the 1 June, 1895 in the Saturday Review when criticising Victorien Sardou's well-made plays.

Noun

sardoodledom (uncountable)

  1. Well-made works of drama that have trivial, insignificant, or melodramatic plots.

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