Nabokovism

== English == === Etymology === From Nabokov +‎ -ism. === Noun === Nabokovism (countable and uncountable, plural Nabokovisms) An attitude or turn of phrase characteristic of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977). 1979, The Spectator (volume 243, part 2) […] Nabokovisms, such as his description of cheerful Soviet propaganda as 'this pail of milk of human kindness with a dead rat at the bottom'.