dryasdust
nounEtymology
From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust.
Definitions
A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer.
- […] how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know?
Boring and pedantic in speech or writing.
- […] Casaubon, the dryasdust scholar in Middlemarch, is said to woo his bride with a “frigid rhetoric . . . as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook.”
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for dryasdust. 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