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Sherlock Holmesy en · ADJ

Etymology

From Sherlock Holmes + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
   • I dont^([sic]) know, he says, all Sherlock Holmesy in a cloud of smoke. 2006, T. Lipshitz, Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes, Dutton, →ISBN:
   • And he wore a Sherlock Holmesy kind of cap with a swarm of salmon flies upon it, that to my boyish fancy was more splendid than a crown. 1951, Roland Pertwee, The River God, page 7:
   • "Don't try to get all Sherlock Holmesy on me, Hicks. Sherlock Holmes wasn't always right. […] 2004, Graham Masterton, The Devil in Gray, Leisure Books, →ISBN, page 225:

Forms

Relateds

Watsonish

Synonyms

Sherlock Holmesque · Holmesish · Sherlockish · Sherlocky · Sherlock Holmesish