Crossword clues for donnish
donnish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
donnish \donnish\ adj. like a university don; marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning, especially its trivial aspects.
Syn: academic, pedantic, bookish.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1835, from don (n.) in the university sense + -ish. Related: Donnishness.
Wiktionary
a. (context of a person English) bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical.
WordNet
Usage examples of "donnish".
In fact Audley could probably be as bloody-minded and obstinate as anyone when it came to the crunch, for all his air of donnish reasonableness.
Unconsciously they would always goad each other by overplaying their chosen roles of the omniscient, donnish theorist and the practical, plain-speaking soldier, even when they were in basic agreement.
If he was taken in, his answer was dictated simply by a donnish unwillingness to allow any one to be better informed on any subject than he was himself.
Molineux invited the small man to stand in front of the conference desk where he assumed a balletic and donnish pose, gently squeaking a cloth over his spectacles.
Malatesta was a donnish, bespectacled Magoo, who never seemed to leave the universe of his own head, through which various elevated legal notions were always tracing like shooting stars.
Despite this over-evident contrast between them, Dixon realized that their progress, deliberate and to all appearances thoughtful, must seem rather donnish to passing students.
Hiramus said, looking more donnish than ever as he peered at her over his glasses.
He gave no grip to Colney, who groaned at cheap Donnish sarcasm, and let him go, after dealing him a hard pellet or two in a cracker-covering.