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Harry Potteresque
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English
Alternative forms
en Harry Potter-esque
Etymology
From en Harry Potter esque. en Harry Potterish.
Adjective
1
Resembling or characteristic of the Harry Potter series.
en w:José Andrés Praise for The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià’s elBulli Free Press 2011 back cover https://archive.org/details/sorcerersapprent0000aben/page/n311/mode/1up 978-1-4391-7555-2 Lisa Abend’s new book reads like a Harry Potteresque version of a cook’s story and gives readers the chance to enter the hidden world of cooks.
en Sarah Tranter No Such Thing as Immortality Choc Lit 2013 236 https://archive.org/details/nosuchthingasimm0000tran_u2a9/page/236/mode/1up 978-1-906931-80-3 ‘I’ve just got an image of the Morris Minor taking to the sky. It would be rather Harry Potteresque!’
en Edinburgh Time Out Digital Ltd 2015 168 https://archive.org/details/edinburgh0000unse_i1v0/page/168/mode/1up 978-1-90504-299-9 The acres of parkland and the huge volcano thing (it is dormant, isn’t it?) allow for plenty of outdoor romping when the weather holds. And when it doesn't, higgledy old houses and some Harry Potteresque buildings have their attractions, while the city’s gloriously gory history should keep even the most jaded of teenagers switched on to the capital and its delights.
en Ben Coates Why the Dutch Are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands London; Boston, Mass. Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2015 2016 126 https://archive.org/details/whydutcharediffe0000coat/page/126/mode/1up 978-1-85788-633-7 Leaving behind the stained glass and tiled floors, I descended a grand, Harry Potteresque stone staircase and returned to the party in the courtyard downstairs.
en Camilla Mortensen Jackaby and Beastly Bones by William Ritter. Algonquin Young Readers, $17.95. w:Eugene Weekly XXXIV 49 10 December 2015 21 https://archive.org/details/20151210EW/page/n20/mode/1up 2 He uses Sherlockian deduction mixed with some Harry Potteresque cryptozoological beings to determine Abigail has recently been in Eastern Europe.
Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Harry Potter.
en Nick Thorpe Adrift in Caledonia: Boat-hitching for the Unenlightened Abacus 2006 2007 229 https://archive.org/details/adriftincaledoni0000thor/page/229/mode/1up 978-0-349-11737-9 I took responsibility for hauling up the terracotta mainsail, under the tutelage of a friendly, Harry Potteresque teenager.
en Alexandra Becquet; Claire Conilleau Mutations et adaptations: le XXe siècle Nouveau Monde 2009 9782847364088 From her dark rimmed Harry Potteresque glasses to her well coiffed hair, this is a mother on the go.
en Romain Puértolas Sam Taylor The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe London w:Harvill Secker 2014 67 https://archive.org/details/extraordinaryjou0000puer_s7n0/page/67/mode/1up 9781846558405 ‘There aren’t any more doors after this,’ the store manager, Julio Sympa, corrected him, wiping his round Harry Potteresque spectacles with a thick cloth handkerchief.
en Ray Bendici; Douglas P. Clement; Pat Grandjean; Cathy Ross; Valerie Schroth; Jennifer Swift 40 Under 40 w:Connecticut Magazine February 2014 48 https://archive.org/details/connecticut-magazine-december-2014/Connecticut%20Magazine%20--%20February%202014/page/n49/mode/1up 3 Like his Harry Potteresque Hidden World protagonist Nate Williams—who, after suffering a premature heart attack, finds out he’s a shapeshifter—Ebersol discovered his passion for writing after a debilitating illness at 15 left him wheelchair-bound and unable to attend school.
en w:Suzanne Brockmann Free Fall 2015 9780986328404 The kid was adorable with his sweet face and big blue eyes behind vaguely Harry Potteresque glasses.
en Cat Hogan They All Fall Down w:Poolbeg Press 2016 136 https://archive.org/details/theyallfalldown0000hoga_t4v4/page/136/mode/1up 978-1-78199-885-4 He pointed to the Harry Potteresque scar over his left eye.
Synonyms
en Harry Potterish
en Potteresque
en Harry Potter
en eponyms