dryasdust

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer.
    — […] how can Dryasdust interpret such things, the dark chaotic dullard, who knows the meaning of nothing cosmic or noble, nor ever will know?
形容词 adj.
  1. Boring and pedantic in speech or writing. not-comparable
    — […] 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.”

词形变化

dryasdusts plural

词源

词源 1
From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust.
词源 2
From the fictitious character Jonas Dryasdust, created by Sir Walter Scott, from dry as dust.
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