Definitions for donnish

donnish don·nish

Spelling: [don-ish]
IPA: /ˈdɒn ɪʃ/

Donnish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in donnish (dhinnos).

Definitions for donnish

adjective

  1. resembling or characteristic of a university don; bookish; pedantic.

Origin of donnish

First recorded in 1825-35; don1 + -ish1

Examples for donnish

I do not know whether I am donnish with him, or if I bullied him too much when he was little; but he is always counter to me.

Sheffield said he liked people to be natural, and hated that donnish manner.

I thought that he was affecting the poet, and in me he found a donnish affectation of the British sportsman.

"Really, Miss Allison——" he began in his most dignified Oxford donnish manner.

Never were dons of the donnish sort more brilliantly twitted than by young Belloc.

He had known dons at Oxford, and placed Lady Latimer in the donnish caste: that was all.

Some of Southeys donnish ways to the irrepressible lad were superlatively exasperating.

He was stiff and donnish, and had scarcely condescended to speak to any one.

Word Value for donnish
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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