"Sherlocky" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1922, A. A. Milne, chapter XXII, in The Red House Mystery:",
          "text": "\"Yes, now what was all that about? You were so damn Sherlocky yesterday all of a sudden. We'd been doing the thing together all the time, and you'd been telling me everything, and then suddenly you become very mysterious and private and talk enigmatically--is that the word?--about dentists and swimming and the 'Plough and Horses,' and--well, what was it all about? You simply vanished out of sight; I didn't know what on earth we were talking about.\"",
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          "ref": "1925 June 18, Walt Mason, “Rippling Rhymes”, in The Calgary Daily Herald:",
          "text": "My nephew was reading a story, a tale of the Sherlocky sort; its pages were startling and gory, and blood was dispensed by the quart.",
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          "ref": "1967, Louisa R. Shotwell, Adam Bookout, The Viking Press, published 1967, page 236:",
          "text": "[…] We would have, if you weren't such a Sherlocky snoop. I suppose you'll tell me next you found our private clubroom.\"",
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