tushery

Etymology

From tush + -ery.

tushery means writing that makes frequent use of affected archaisms. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why “tushery” is a great word

TUSHERY — [Noun] The practice of writing characterized by the frequent and affected use of archaic diction. From the exclamation 'tush' (expressing rebuke or dismissal) + the suffix '-ery' (denoting a practice or condition); coined by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883. Unlike archaism, a genuinely old word used in its proper historical context, or gadzookery, a humorous overuse of period interjections, tushery is the broader, more damning indictment of a style choked by artificial antiquity. It is the clanking of chain-mail verbs, the musty scent of ersatz *thees* and *thous*, and the tinny ring of a cardboard broadsword being drawn—a performance of depth that confesses only a profound anxiety about the present.

noun

Writing that makes frequent use of affected archaisms“Critics have derided the works of Walter Scott as tushery.”