Dr Watsonish

English

Etymology

From Dr. Watson +‎ -ish.

Adjective

Dr Watsonish (comparative more Dr Watsonish, superlative most Dr Watsonish)

1. Alternative form of Dr. Watsonish.
   • 1948 March 17, “Hull Amateurs in ‘Pygmalion’”, in The Daily Mail, number 19,446, Hull, page three:

     Charles Holdgate was a Dr Watsonish Col. Pickering, and Winifred Brough a perfect piece of gentility as Mrs Higgins.

   • 1995 July, “Comment”, in Hammer Horror‎^[1], number 5, London: Marvel Comics UK Ltd:

     Richard Davis drew a similar analogy in Films and Filming’s issue of July 1967, Walters’s “Dr Watsonish assistant” reminding him “irresistibly of Peter Cushing’s Sherlock Holmes in Hound of the Baskervilles.”

   • 2009 October 3, Craig Brown, “Was his diary his downfall?”, in The Spectator‎^[2], archived from the original on 18 April 2023:

     The audiotape of Alan Clark’s Diaries — barely mentioned in this rather Dr Watsonish, sensible shoe of a biography — is well worth hearing.

   • 2015 April 23, Jake Kerridge, “The Infidel Stain by MJ Carter, review: 'subtle'”, in The Telegraph‎^[3], archived from the original on 18 April 2023:

     Avery, the Dr Watsonish narrator, is a well-to-do ex-soldier who touchingly believes that English gentlemen always tell the truth and do the right thing.