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Dryasdust

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Boring and pedantic in speech or writing. not-comparable

    "[…] 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.”"

Noun
  1. 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?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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