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donnish

adj

Etymology

From don (professor) + -ish.

  1. suffixed as donnish — “don + ish”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of a university don.

    • The proctor was a gentlemanly, straight-forward looking man of about thirty, not at all donnish, and his address answered to his appearance.

  2. Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical.

    • The new engineer had a donnish air, and found it difficult to communicate with the workers in the factory.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for donnish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA