Holmesy

English Etymology 1 From en Holmes y<id:diminutive><pos:diminutive suffix>. Proper noun en Holmes. en H[arrie] Irving Hancock Greg Overhears a Pretty Girl’s Tribute Dick Prescott’s First Year at West Point or Two Chums in the Cadet Gray Akron, Ohio The Saalfield Publishing Company 1910 Then, just before time was called, Greg got his left eye too much in line with the yearling’s right fist. Dazed, Cadet Holmes was saved only by the word from the time-keeper. “Make it short, Holmesy, or you’re going to meet with more damage, I reckon.” en James Francis Thierry VII The Adventure of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons:Being One of the Exciting Episodes in the Career of the Famous Detective Hemlock Holmes, as Recorded by His Friend Dr. Watson New York, N.Y. The Neale Publishing Company,440 Fourth Avenue 1918 71 “Time for luncheon, ain’t it, Holmesy, old boy?” I questioned. “Yes. Sure, Watson. I’m hungry, too, after all that heavy thought. We’ll go in and have luncheon now, and then we’ll get some swift action.” Thereupon Holmes led the way to the dining-room, where the others awaited us. en w:The Baker Street Journal 1995 191 Conan Doyle reveals in the opening chapter that he is upset that the occurrence at the Reichenbach falls did not rid him of an obligation to publish more tales about “Holmesy.” en David Corbett Done for a Dime New York, N.Y. w:Ballantine Books 2003 105 https://archive.org/details/donefordime00corb/page/105/mode/1up 0-345-44753-0 “Holmesy.” Murchison pulled up and rested against the next desk over. “Mr. Marchand. Anything to tell?” Holmes looked up at last. en w:John Green Turtles All the Way Down Dutton Books 2017 31 9780525555360 “Aza Holmes?” he asked. “Hi,” I said. “To what do I owe the pleasure?” he asked, his voice flat, neutral, unreadable. Daisy walked up behind me and held out her hand, then shook Davis’s forcefully. “Daisy Ramirez, Holmesy’s best friend. We had a canoe puncture.” en Kenneth Johnson Holmes Coming Blackstone Publishing 2021 2022 979-8-200-70686-0 Zapper leaned around and held up his hand to Holmes for a high-five, saying. “Holmesy, that was totally cold!” Etymology 2 From en Holmes y<id:adjectival><pos:adjectival suffix>. Adjective en rare Resembling or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. en w:Vincent Starrett Dead Man Inside The Crime Club, Inc. 1931 57 There were detectives enough to populate a village. “Nothing Holmesy about those dicks,” he observed, sotto voce, to Rainfall. “They wouldn’t know a steamfitter from a country parson by his coat lapel;” en w:Adrian Mitchell The Bodyguard Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1971 53 https://archive.org/details/bodyguard00mitc/page/53/mode/1up 76-143486 ‘Look, it was the first holiday I’d ever had in my life and I wanted it to be a real holiday, a real rest. I didn’t want to spend it interrogating a girl just on the basis of a Holmesy hunch, did I? I was tired.’ en Kathrin Glüer-Pagin; w:Peter Pagin Vulcan Might Have Existed, and Neptune Not: On the Semantics of Empty Names Manuel García-Carpintero; Genoveva Martí Empty Representations: Reference and Non-Existence w:Oxford University Press 2014 part II (Accounts of Empty Representations) 127 978-0-19-964705-7 According to him, believing that Sherlock Holmes is a detective and believing that Dr Watson is a detective amount to a certain three-place relation obtaining between the subject, the gappy detective proposition, and different ways of believing (cf. Braun 2002, 2005). Whatever it precisely means to believe a proposition in a Holmesy way (as opposed to a Watsony way), this proposal obviously will result in an unexpectedly large number of different ways of believing. Synonyms en Holmesish Sherlock Holmesish Sherlock Holmesque Sherlock Holmesy Sherlockish Sherlocky en eponyms en Sherlock Holmes