Rabelaisian

• Rabelaisan

Calque of French rabelaisien.

Rabelaisian (comparative more Rabelaisian, superlative most Rabelaisian)

1. Pertaining to the works or period of Rabelais.
   • 2006, Todd P. Olson, "The Street Has Its Masters: Caravaggio and the Socially Maerginal", in Genevieve Warwick (ed.), Caravaggio: Realism, Rebellion, Reception, page 72

     In Italy, as in Rabelaisian France, the carnival entered not only elite theatrical performance and engravings but also the printed word.

2. Possessing a style of satirical humour characterized by exaggerated or grotesque characters and coarse jokes.
   • 1889, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, Book VI, chapter VII, page 343.

     For although of unexceptionable morality, and addressed virginibus puerisque, the stories and illustrations with which this and others of these collections abound are frequently of a very Rabelaisian character.

   • 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:

     The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining.