Dr Watsonish

English Etymology From en Dr Watson ish. Adjective 1 en Dr. Watsonish. en Hull Amateurs in ‘Pygmalion’ The Daily Mail 19,446 Hull 17 March 1948 three https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/794186938/ Charles Holdgate was a Dr Watsonish Col. Pickering, and Winifred Brough a perfect piece of gentility as Mrs Higgins. en Comment Hammer Horror https://archive.org/details/Hammer_Horror_005_1995.Marvel/page/n29/mode/1up 5 London Marvel Comics UK Ltd July 1995 Richard Davis drew a similar analogy in Films and Filming’s issue of July 1967, Walters’s “Dr Watsonish assistant” reminding him “irresistibly of Peter Cushing’s Sherlock Holmes in Hound of the Baskervilles.” en Craig Brown Was his diary his downfall? w:The Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/was-his-diary-his-downfall/ 3 October 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20230418223913/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/was-his-diary-his-downfall/ 18 April 2023 The audiotape of Alan Clark’s Diaries — barely mentioned in this rather Dr Watsonish, sensible shoe of a biography — is well worth hearing. en Jake Kerridge The Infidel Stain by MJ Carter, review: 'subtle' The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/11558335/The-Infidel-Stain-by-MJ-Carter-review.html 23 April 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20250428034717/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/11558335/The-Infidel-Stain-by-MJ-Carter-review.html 28 April 2025 Avery, the Dr Watsonish narrator, is a well-to-do ex-soldier who touchingly believes that English gentlemen always tell the truth and do the right thing.