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Seinfeldish (comparative more Seinfeldish, superlative most Seinfeldish)

1. (informal) Characteristic of the American sitcom Seinfeld, or its main character and star, Jerry Seinfeld.

   Synonym: Seinfeldian

   • 1997, Nicole Arthur, Will Tizard, Frommer's Washington, D. C., by Night, John Wiley & Sons, published 1997, →ISBN, page 119:

     Washington's health clubs serve the gamut of American yupppiedom, from torture chambers of grunting macho macho men, to Seinfeldish singles scenes, to high-tech palaces for political trophy wives and their over-the-Hill hubbies.

   • 2001 June 23, Kurt Anderson, “Spectator: Are Beavis and Butt-head Arty?”, in Time:

     In TV the winks range from the casual and occasional (network newswomen appearing as themselves on Murphy Brown) to the deadpan crypto-real (on Seinfeld, comedian Jerry Seinfeld plays a comedian named Jerry, and in one episode he makes a Seinfeldish TV pilot) to the relentlessly ironic (David Letterman satirizing his program, his genre, the entire medium).

   • 2005, Nancy Kelly, Ginny Blue's Boyfriends, Kensington Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 44:

     I tried to look beyond that, but my Seinfeldish self reared its ugly head and all I could see were myriads and myriads of germs settling in all the little folds of the chewed gum.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Seinfeldish.