"Poirotian" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Poirot",
        "3": "ian"
      },
      "expansion": "Poirot + -ian",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Poirot + -ian",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more Poirotian",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most Poirotian",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Poirotian (comparative more Poirotian, superlative most Poirotian)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ian",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, David E. Chinitz, T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide, page 146",
          "text": "It is present, too, in The Confidential Clerk, with its multiple puzzles of parental identity and its twisting series of Poirotian revelations in the final scene […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Steve Boggs, Letters to Dinah, page 74",
          "text": "For an outsider, you gain local knowledge slowly, have to sort of come at it indirectly, like a Poirotian detective, accumulating the facts and history of the people who have lived and live in your town.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, G. G. Vandagriff, Voices in Your Blood, page 157",
          "text": "As you can see, each of the above programs is designed for a different user. What kind are you? A Poirotian detective with excellent computer skills and a healthy pocketbook?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or relating to the fictional detective Hercule Poirot in the works of Agatha Christie."
      ],
      "id": "en-Poirotian-en-adj-fYZ9XFoR",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Poirotesque"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Poirotian"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Poirot",
        "3": "ian"
      },
      "expansion": "Poirot + -ian",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Poirot + -ian",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more Poirotian",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most Poirotian",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Poirotian (comparative more Poirotian, superlative most Poirotian)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Poirotesque"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ian",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, David E. Chinitz, T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide, page 146",
          "text": "It is present, too, in The Confidential Clerk, with its multiple puzzles of parental identity and its twisting series of Poirotian revelations in the final scene […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Steve Boggs, Letters to Dinah, page 74",
          "text": "For an outsider, you gain local knowledge slowly, have to sort of come at it indirectly, like a Poirotian detective, accumulating the facts and history of the people who have lived and live in your town.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, G. G. Vandagriff, Voices in Your Blood, page 157",
          "text": "As you can see, each of the above programs is designed for a different user. What kind are you? A Poirotian detective with excellent computer skills and a healthy pocketbook?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or relating to the fictional detective Hercule Poirot in the works of Agatha Christie."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Poirotian"
}