"Sherlocky" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Sherlock",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "Sherlock + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Sherlock + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more Sherlocky",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most Sherlocky",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Sherlocky (comparative more Sherlocky, superlative most Sherlocky)",
      "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 entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -y",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sherlock Holmes",
          "orig": "en:Sherlock Holmes",
          "parents": [
            "British fiction",
            "Literature",
            "Fiction",
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Artistic works",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Art",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes."
      ],
      "id": "en-Sherlocky-en-adj-fCGgWRcn",
      "links": [
        [
          "detective",
          "detective"
        ],
        [
          "Sherlock Holmes",
          "Sherlock Holmes"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Watsonish"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Holmesish"
        },
        {
          "word": "Sherlockish"
        },
        {
          "word": "Sherlock Holmesish"
        },
        {
          "word": "Sherlock Holmesy"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Sherlocky"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Sherlock",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "Sherlock + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Sherlock + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more Sherlocky",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most Sherlocky",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Sherlocky (comparative more Sherlocky, superlative most Sherlocky)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Watsonish"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -y",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Sherlock Holmes"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "detective",
          "detective"
        ],
        [
          "Sherlock Holmes",
          "Sherlock Holmes"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Holmesish"
    },
    {
      "word": "Sherlockish"
    },
    {
      "word": "Sherlock Holmesish"
    },
    {
      "word": "Sherlock Holmesy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Sherlocky"
}