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donnish

[ don-ish ]

adjective

  1. resembling or characteristic of a university don; scholarly; pedantic.


donnish

/ ˈɒɪʃ /

adjective

  1. of or resembling a university don
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈDzԲԾԱ, noun
  • ˈDzԲԾ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • Dzn· adverb
  • Dzn·Ա noun
  • Dzn noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of donnish1

First recorded in 1845–50; don 1 + -ish 1
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In his cap and gown, he looked whatever the opposite of donnish is.

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Simons has retained a donnish air from his days as a lecturer.

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I think when I meet those arguments I tend to become a bit donnish, perhaps slightly finger-wagging.

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Mark even looked like one of those donnish figures fictionalised in the pages of the Cold War thrillers he loved.

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He still fires up the forge now and then, either to do donnish demonstrations for new hires or to make things: door hinges, fireplace sets, a shovel for his son’s pizza oven.

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