"dryasdust" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust.",
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  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I, page 23:",
          "text": "[…] how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer."
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    "Walter Scott",
    "dryasdust"
  ],
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}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Paula Marantz Cohen, The American Scholar:",
          "text": "[…] 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.”",
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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from fiction",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust.",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I, page 23:",
          "text": "[…] how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know?",
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    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
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  "etymology_text": "From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust.",
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          "ref": "2006, Paula Marantz Cohen, The American Scholar:",
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        }
      ],
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