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Eeyorish, a. Chiefly Brit.
Brit. |ˈiːɔːrɪʃ|, U.S. |ˈiɔrɪʃ|
Forms: 19– Eeyoreish, 19– Eeyorish; Also with lower-case initial.
[‹ Eeyore, the name of the determinedly pessimistic donkey in A. A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and later books and films (after the sound of the bray of a donkey: compare hee-haw n.) + -ish suffix1.]
Deeply pessimistic; gloomy.
1992Times 13 July (Life & Times section) 3/5 ‘There are days when nothing much seems funny at all. Being a comic novelist can get a chap down, you know.’ But this itself, delivered in a somewhat Eeyore-ish tone, was rather funny, in a way. 1993P. Levi Tennyson vi. 175 He is still Eeyorish in November, but more shamefacedly so. 2003Daily Tel. 20 Feb. 20/4 ‘Gloomy old sod, aren't I?’ observes Courtenay's irresistibly Eeyoreish Larkin after a matchless delivery of Dockery and Son. |