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English
Etymology
From Dr Watson + -ish.
Adjective
Dr Watsonish (comparative more Dr Watsonish, superlative most Dr Watsonish)
- Alternative form of Dr. Watsonish.
1948 March 17, “Hull Amateurs in ‘Pygmalion’”, in The Daily Mail, number 19,446, Hull, page three:Charles Holdgate was a Dr Watsonish Col. Pickering, and Winifred Brough a perfect piece of gentility as Mrs Higgins.
1995 July, “Comment”, in Hammer Horror, number 5, London: Marvel Comics UK Ltd:Richard Davis drew a similar analogy in Films and Filming’s issue of July 1967, Walters’s “Dr Watsonish assistant” reminding him “irresistibly of Peter Cushing’s Sherlock Holmes in Hound of the Baskervilles.”
2009 October 3, Craig Brown, “Was his diary his downfall?”, in The Spectator, archived from the original on 18 April 2023:The audiotape of Alan Clark’s Diaries — barely mentioned in this rather Dr Watsonish, sensible shoe of a biography — is well worth hearing.
2015 April 23, Jake Kerridge, “The Infidel Stain by MJ Carter, review: 'subtle'”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 18 April 2023:Avery, the Dr Watsonish narrator, is a well-to-do ex-soldier who touchingly believes that English gentlemen always tell the truth and do the right thing.