Betty Boop-ish

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Betty Boop-ish (comparative more Betty Boop-ish, superlative most Betty Boop-ish)

  1. Alternative form of Betty Boopish.
    • 1935 July 21, “Loew’s Fox”, in The Washington Post, number 21,584, Washington, D.C., section “Betty Boop in Person”:
      Mae, all done up in a demure blue taffeta robe de style, is just about as cute as can be and more Betty Boop-ish than ever.
    • 1972, Robert F. Buckhorn, Nader: The People’s Lawyer, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 228:
      A bouncy, Betty Boop-ish-type woman, she is a hard-working but powerless representative for the consumer.
    • 2022 October 14, Christina Koomen, “Showtimers’ Dracula bites Tombstone”, in The Roanoke Times, volume 70, number 287, page B12, column 2:
      Among the townspeople, Bob Toven as the hapless Mayor and Teresa Killen as the Betty Boop-ish Marietta help to set the show’s mischievous tone.