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donnish

/don-ish/US // ˈdɒn ɪʃ //UK // (ˈdɒnɪʃ) //

唐纳,唐尼西,唐尼诗,唐纳西

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : resembling or characteristic of a university don; scholarly; pedantic.

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Examples

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

  • 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.