单词 | eeyorish |
释义 | Eeyorishadj. Chiefly British. Resembling the Winnie-the-Pooh character Eeyore; pessimistic, gloomy, habitually disconsolate. ΚΠ 1992 Times 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. 1993 P. Levi Tennyson vi. 175 He is still Eeyorish in November, but more shamefacedly so. 2003 Daily 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. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1992 |
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