dryasdust

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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?”

2. sıfat 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.””