Partridgean

adjective2

1. •
   (UK, Ireland) Self-important but bathetic; unable to distinguish the meaningful from the trivial and therefore prone to absurdity.

   • Forde proved his point across the Bank Holiday weekend, tweeting snaps of such Partridgean gems as Blackburn's clarfication that his son Simon was NOT named after Simon Bates. — 2013
2. •
   In the manner or style of lexicographer Eric Partridge (1894–1979).

   • Richter (2006: 57) suggests that it is a clipping of the English word po(rnograhpy) to which the suffix -ndy (as in ‘trendy’, ‘handy’, etc.) has been added: a Partridgean etymology at best. — 2014