Basil Fawlty

English Etymology From the character Basil Fawlty from the television show Fawlty Towers. Noun Basil Fawlty's A self-important and obnoxious man, often a shop or hotel owner. en July 4, 2025 ScowlyBrowSpinster TheWhiteLotusHBO 1lrnnkw Armond is the Basil Fawlty of the 21st Century! Starts like this and ends like this: Armond is the Basil Fawlty of the 21st Century! Starts like this and ends like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20250705192400/https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWhiteLotusHBO/comments/1lrnnkw/armond_is_the_basil_fawlty_of_the_21st_century/ 5 July 2025 en https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/15416571.rude-bookseller-dubbed-basil-fawlty-books-sells-hawes-shop/ The Northern Echo Rude bookseller dubbed the 'Basil Fawlty of books' sells his Hawes shop 17th July 2017 Alexa Fox Steve Bloom, of Bloomindales book shop, was dubbed the “Basil Fawlty of books” after visitors made more than 20 complaints about his behaviour to the local parish council. https://web.archive.org/web/20260806231238/https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/15416571.rude-bookseller-dubbed-basil-fawlty-books-sells-hawes-shop/ August 6, 2026 en "There is nothing anti-European about believing that we should decide our taxes here in the House of Commons. The truth is that the right hon. Gentleman now has to ask the Germans to use a different word. He has become the Basil Fawlty of Europe. Every time he meets a German, he goes around saying 'Don't mention tax harmonisation'." https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Wit_and_Humour_of_William_Hague/ffCFDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+Basil+fawlty+of%22+-%22fawlty+towers%22&pg=PT16&printsec=frontcover The Wit and Humour of William Hague Dr. Eileen Metcalfe 2019 en The following morning, I rise slightly bleary-eyed, having perhaps enjoyed a few too many wines by the glass the night before. I drive back towards Martinborough and discover the Basil Fawlty of the New Zealand wine world. Tim Coney and his wife Margaret decided to leave the big smoke of Wellington and take to the hills of Martinborough and plant a vineyard in their fifties. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Wine_Explorer/kn9JEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+Basil+fawlty+of%22+-%22fawlty+towers%22&pg=PT40&printsec=frontcover University of Buckingham Press The Wine Explorer: A Guide to the Wines of the World and How to Enjoy Them Graham Mitchell 2020 en By the time I left my first teaching post, I was known as the Basil Fawlty of my school, the man with the manic energy, with two briefcases and three distinct job titles. Looking back, those recurrent stomach pains at twenty-five were probably an ulcer. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Best_Of_Resurgence/pmW_EQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+Basil+fawlty+of%22+-%22fawlty+towers%22&pg=PT96&printsec=frontcover Lilliput Press The Best Of Resurgence: A Selection from the First Twenty-Five Years John Button 1991 en terms derived from fiction eponyms en Fictional characters