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Definitions
Overly academic, bookish, or pedantic.
Word origin
From don (professor) + -ish.
Used in a sentence
“The proctor was a gentlemanly, straight-forward looking man of about thirty, not at all donnish, and his address answered to his appearance.”
“The new engineer had a donnish air, and found it difficult to communicate with the workers in the factory.”
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