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dryasdust

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Definitions

  1. A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • […] how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know?
  • […] 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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