Doctor Watsonish

From Doctor Watson +‎ -ish.

Doctor Watsonish (comparative more Doctor Watsonish, superlative most Doctor Watsonish)

1. Alternative form of Dr. Watsonish.
   • 1909 October 26, “An English Umbrella”, in Yorkville Enquirer. […], number 86, Yorkville, S.C.: L[ewis] M[ason] Grist’s Sons, →ISSN, →OCLC, Humorous Department, page [4], column 1:

     However, out of the miscellaneous collection on hand, the manager picked out one umbrella, tagged it with the Englishman’s name and laid it away for safe keeping. Upon the return of the traveler that umbrella was given him. It proved to be the right one. “How on earth could you tell it was his?” asked a Doctor Watsonish-kind of clerk with as much awe as if he were addressing Sherlock Holmes himself. “There was no possible way of identifying it.”

   • 1950 October 18, M.S., “Civic Interest In Theatre Project: Melton’s “Pygmalion” Was A Town Occasion”, in Leicester Evening Mail, page eight:

     There was an easy power in Maxwell Knights’ professor, but Reg. Hubbard, as Pickering, tended to be too much a secondary character, a Doctor Watsonish yes-man rather than a character in his own right.

   • 1978 June 18, Brian Roberts, “Farewell to Hawaii”, in Star-Bulletin & Advertiser, page F-3, column 2:

     We then apprehend our criminals by a process of deduction and elimination in the true Sherlock Holmes’ manner, although if the truth be known most of us, including our policemen, are more Doctor Watsonish, and not clear, incisive Holmes types.