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dryasdust en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Boring and pedantic in speech or writing.
   • […] 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.” 2006, Paula Marantz Cohen, The American Scholar:

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dryasdust en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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? 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I, page 23:

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