Big Brotherish

big-brotherish Big-Brotherish English Alternative forms en Big-Brotherish Etymology From en Big Brother -ish. Adjective 1 Relating to or suggesting Big Brother unwarranted, invasive surveillance. en 1974 Western American Literature 121 https://books.google.com/books?id=a75iOVy0L-gC [...] a Big Brotherish refusal to grant them respite from administrative vigilance, as though they were children. en 1992 No Guns, Big Smiles 85 https://books.google.com/books?id=MPl9AAAAMAAJ Juan Andreas explained that it was the local media, a microphone rigged up to some speakers. It played music, messages, news and advertising to the local people and there was no way that it could be switched off. It struck me as Big Brotherish but it was the sound rather than the content that was uncomfortable. en 2007 Harold C. Livesay American Made 143 https://books.google.com/books?id=_6SaAAAAIAAJ [...] a Big Brotherish vigilance to ferret out transgressors. Related terms en big brother Big Brother big-brotherish big-brotherism / big brotherism Big Brotherism big-brotherliness big-brotherly Translations French: fr bigbrotherien, fr bigbrothérien en eponyms