Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncommon, uncountable)Well-made works of drama that have trivial, insignificant, or melodramatic plots.

Origin

Blend of Sardou + doodle + -dom, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou. Coined by

Blend of Sardou + doodle + -dom, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou. Coined by Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist George Bernard Shaw who first used it on the 1 June, 1895 in the Saturday Review when criticising Sardou's well-made plays.

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