Eeyorish

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English

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Etymology

From the character Eeyore (in Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne) +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

Adjective

Eeyorish (comparative more Eeyorish, superlative most Eeyorish)

  1. (chiefly UK) Very gloomy or pessimistic.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 384:
      More important for Brienne than the king's disengagement and eeyorish bad temper, however, was the consistency of the queen's favour.
    • 2006 October 28, Marina Hyde, The Guardian:
      We all know how that particular story ended, of course, and while Her late Majesty never had to suffer the indignity of opening up the accounts from which the project was funded, it could be argued that the occasional brush with realism - however aesthetically distasteful - would do our Eeyorish prince no harm.
    • 2015, Dominic Sandbrook, The Great British Dream Factory, Penguin, published 2016, page xxi:
      The Great Exhibition and the Festival of Britain, declared one Eeyorish historian in the Daily Mail, had been ‘celebrations of the best in education, art and design, temples to technology and industry’.

References

  • OED 2006