"Dr Watsonish" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1948 March 17, “Hull Amateurs in ‘Pygmalion’”, in The Daily Mail, number 19,446, Hull, page three",
          "text": "Charles Holdgate was a Dr Watsonish Col. Pickering, and Winifred Brough a perfect piece of gentility as Mrs Higgins.",
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          "ref": "1995 July, “Comment”, in Hammer Horror, number 5, London: Marvel Comics UK Ltd",
          "text": "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.”",
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          "ref": "2009 October 3, Craig Brown, “Was his diary his downfall?”, in The Spectator, archived from the original on 2023-04-18",
          "text": "The audiotape of Alan Clark’s Diaries — barely mentioned in this rather Dr Watsonish, sensible shoe of a biography — is well worth hearing.",
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        {
          "ref": "2015 April 23, Jake Kerridge, “The Infidel Stain by MJ Carter, review: 'subtle'”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 2023-04-18",
          "text": "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.",
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  "etymology_text": "From Dr Watson + -ish.",
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          "ref": "1948 March 17, “Hull Amateurs in ‘Pygmalion’”, in The Daily Mail, number 19,446, Hull, page three",
          "text": "Charles Holdgate was a Dr Watsonish Col. Pickering, and Winifred Brough a perfect piece of gentility as Mrs Higgins.",
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          "ref": "1995 July, “Comment”, in Hammer Horror, number 5, London: Marvel Comics UK Ltd",
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