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Poirotian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Poirot + -ian.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to the fictional detective Hercule Poirot in the works of Agatha Christie.
   • As you can see, each of the above programs is designed for a different user. What kind are you? A Poirotian detective with excellent computer skills and a healthy pocketbook? 1993, G. G. Vandagriff, Voices in Your Blood, page 157:
   • For an outsider, you gain local knowledge slowly, have to sort of come at it indirectly, like a Poirotian detective, accumulating the facts and history of the people who have lived and live in your town. 2011, Steve Boggs, Letters to Dinah, page 74:
   • It is present, too, in The Confidential Clerk, with its multiple puzzles of parental identity and its twisting series of Poirotian revelations in the final scene […] 2005, David E. Chinitz, T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide, page 146:

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Relateds

Poirotesque