"donnish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From don + -ish.",
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      "form": "more donnish",
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          "ref": "1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], chapter XII, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The proctor was a gentlemanly, straight-forward looking man of about thirty, not at all donnish, and his address answered to his appearance.",
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          "ref": "1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVI, in Daniel Deronda, volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II (Meeting Streams), page 321:",
          "text": "The truth is, unless a man can get the prestige and income of a Don and write donnish books, it’s hardly worth while for him to make a Greek and Latin machine of himself and be able to spin you out pages of the Greek dramatists at any verse you’ll give him as a cue.",
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          "ref": "2016 April 9, Philip Oltermann, “Michael Hofmann: ‘English is basically a trap. It’s almost a language for spies’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "The savagery with which Michael Hofmann can wield a hatchet has earned him unlikely fans outside the literary circuit. A recent issue of Viz ran a cartoon of the critic, poet and translator urinating all over a phone booth, while two donnish FR Leavis types nodded appreciatively from a safe distance.",
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        "Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical."
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        "(of a person) Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical."
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "suh",
          "sense": "bookish",
          "word": "сух"
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          "roman": "pedantičen",
          "sense": "bookish",
          "word": "педантичен"
        }
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      "form": "more donnish",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most donnish",
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        "superlative"
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        },
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          "text": "The truth is, unless a man can get the prestige and income of a Don and write donnish books, it’s hardly worth while for him to make a Greek and Latin machine of himself and be able to spin you out pages of the Greek dramatists at any verse you’ll give him as a cue.",
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          "text": "The savagery with which Michael Hofmann can wield a hatchet has earned him unlikely fans outside the literary circuit. A recent issue of Viz ran a cartoon of the critic, poet and translator urinating all over a phone booth, while two donnish FR Leavis types nodded appreciatively from a safe distance.",
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      "roman": "suh",
      "sense": "bookish",
      "word": "сух"
    },
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      "roman": "pedantičen",
      "sense": "bookish",
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  "word": "donnish"
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