Dr. Watson-ish

English Adjective 1 en Dr. Watsonish. en Novel Notes Liverpool Post & Mercury 23,744 4 August 1931 4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/891681524/ 5 A British Secret Service agent, with his courageous wife and Dr. Watson-ish chum, are the outstanding figures of Mr. Neville Brand’s story, “The Winning Trick” (Lane). en w:William K. Everson The Detective in Film Secaucus, N.J. The Citadel Press 1972 102 https://archive.org/details/detectiveinfilm0000ever/page/102/mode/1up 0-8065-0298-3 Robert Montgomery as a European prince turned detective was inevitably the most gentlemanly of all sleuths; with Louis Hayward and, in a Dr. Watson-ish role, Frank Morgan. en w:Richard Buckle Buckle at the Ballet New York, N.Y. Atheneum 1980 154 https://archive.org/details/buckleatballet0000buck/page/154/mode/1up 0-689-11085-5 A dear friend, A. J. Jaeger of Novello’s, the music publishers, is welcomed—Desmond Doyle at his most Dr. Watson-ish. en Simon Saltzman ‘Design for Living’ beguiles, but never shocks, audience Daily Record 84 364 22 June 1984 17 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/254624903/ 3 Richard Wood is a pompous Dr. Watson-ish Ernest. en Jay Bobbin ‘Cleopatra’: Queen of the video this week The Rutherford Courier 68th year, volume 18 Smyrna, Tenn. 26 August 1999 9A https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/675104080/ 2 It involves a Sherlock Holmes-like rodent who relies on a Dr. Watson-ish partner in trying to solve crimes in Victorian-era London. en K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter Foreword Katherine Gleason Anatomy of Steampunk: The Fashion of Victorian Futurism Race Point Publishing 2013 7 https://books.google.com/books?id=WWVBAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA7 978-1-937994-28-0 Bristly tweeds and Dr. Watson-ish waistcoats slung with chains heavy enough to pull the Queen Mary to port—it all fits the steampunk aesthetic. en Jill Lawless Sherlock Holmes is focus of London museum show w:Albany Democrat-Herald 148 122 Albany, Ore. 22 May 2014 B4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/565927676/ Pat Hardy, the museum’s curator of paintings, prints and drawings, noted that the solid, moustache-sporting Conan Doyle looks distinctly Dr. Watson-ish.