dryasdust

English

From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust.

dryasdust (plural dryasdusts)

A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer.
- 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 156109991, book I, page 23:
  […] how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know?

dryasdust (not comparable)

Boring and pedantic in speech or writing.
- 2006, Paula Marantz Cohen, The American Scholar:
  […] Casaubon, the dryasdust scholar in Middlemarch, is said to woo his bride with a “frigid rhetoric . . . as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook.”

单词	dryasdust
释义	dryasdust English Etymology From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust. Noun dryasdust (plural dryasdusts) A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer. 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 156109991, book I, page 23: […] how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know? Adjective dryasdust (not comparable) Boring and pedantic in speech or writing. 2006, Paula Marantz Cohen, The American Scholar: […] Casaubon, the dryasdust scholar in Middlemarch, is said to woo his bride with a “frigid rhetoric . . . as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of an amorous rook.”
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