Partridgian

English

Adjective

Partridgian (comparative more Partridgian, superlative most Partridgian)

1. Alternative spelling of Partridgean
   • 2001 August 13, Simon Tyers, “Really? So what happened? (was Re: Chris Moyles - End to Saturday show??)”, in uk.media.radio.bbc-r1‎^[1] (Usenet), message-ID <9l9ecd$rd7$1@plutonium.btinternet.com>:

     And don't forget his spectacularly Partridgian performance during that Blood On The Carpet about Radio 1 a few months back, especially when he related how DLT rang him during Danny Baker's first show to ask him if he was listening, and Juste deciding that he *had* to put on the best show he could in 'answer'. And that bit at the end with him looking round the old R1 premises. "It's all ruined..."

   • 2009 February 3, Mark Braxton, “Cowards (review)”, in Radio Times:

     More smart ideas from the likeable combo. Their Partridgian misfits and Colin Hunts soon pall, but the oddball stuff is terrific: the chain of resentment set up by some dropped coins; the host who overinvites to a party; and "Martin Clunes Knocky Door", a cartoon that's as stupidly funny as its title.

   • 2013, Daniel Gray, Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters: Travels through England's Football Provinces, →ISBN, page 29:

     Boro's recently reinstated and reassuringly shouty PA announcer Mark Page has had a career of Partridgian vicissitudes. In the early 1980s, he was plucked from local radio to fill the early Saturday morning slot on Radio One.