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donnish

[ don-ish ]

adjective

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


donnish

/ ˈdɒnɪʃ /

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

  • ˈdonnishness, noun
  • ˈdonnishly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • donnish·ly adverb
  • donnish·ness noun
  • donnism noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of donnish1

First recorded in 1845–50; don 1 + -ish 1
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Example Sentences

Vartan, who died last week at 87, was a learned man to be sure, but never a donnish one.

From Time

He had known dons at Oxford, and placed Lady Latimer in the donnish caste: that was all.

Never were dons of the donnish sort more brilliantly twitted than by young Belloc.

Some of Southeys donnish ways to the irrepressible lad were superlatively exasperating.

"Really, Miss Allison——" he began in his most dignified Oxford donnish manner.

I do not know whether I am donnish with him, or if I bullied him too much when he was little; but he is always counter to me.

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