Holmesish

English Etymology From en Holmes ish. Adjective Resembling or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. en 1964 Books and Bookmen 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=uLREAQAAIAAJ&q=%22holmesish%22&dq=%22holmesish%22 71 But can they have accepted Edmund Wilson's verdict that all detective fiction is only Holmesish imitation, and elected to go back to Square One? en John Elkington Fuelling the EIA flame http://books.google.com/books?id=K1N5vdiFwB0C&pg=PA585&dq=%22holmesish%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hhFnUofyGcThyQHd74GYBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22holmesish%22&f=false New Scientist 1 June 1978 The environmental dimensions of energy production and consumption are, in fact, rarely out of the news — although one sometimes needs a Holmesish dedication to ferret out the evidence. en 1990 Gregory Currie The Nature of Fiction http://books.google.com/books?id=d3Q6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA140&dq=%22holmesish%22#v=onepage&q=%22holmesish%22&f=false 140 Cambridge University Press 0521381274 One reply to this is to say that we should count "Holmes might not have been a detective" as true just in case each Holmesish individual has a counterpart that is not a detective. Synonyms en Sherlockish, en Sherlocky, en Sherlock Holmesque, en Sherlock Holmesish, en Sherlock Holmesy See also en Watsonish Anagrams en ehhilmoss sheloshim en eponyms en Sherlock Holmes