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Dumbledorian
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English
thumb|Albus Dumbledore.
Alternative forms
en Dumbledorean
Etymology
From en Dumbledore itself from the noun en dumbledore ian.
Adjective
Of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional en wizard Albus Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series
en 2010 Warwick Davis Size Matters Not: The Extraordinary Life and Career of Warwick Davis John Wiley & Sons 2011 9780470914663 http://books.google.com/books?id=hdzJjxa950wC&pg=PA374&dq=%22dumbledorian%22#v=onepage&q=%22dumbledorian%22&f=false 374 “Now I believe it’s someone’s birthday today,” Michael [Gambon] said in his finest Dumbledorian tones.
en 2011 Astrid Ensslin Recallin’ Fagin: linguistic accents, intertextuality and othering in narrative offline and online video games Gamers: The Social and Cultural Significance of Online Games Garry Crawford; Victoria K. Gosling; Ben Light Routledge 9780415556194 http://books.google.com/books?id=HdmNAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA229&dq=%22dumbledorian%22#v=onepage&q=%22dumbledorian%22&f=false 229 The all-important Guildmaster, a Dumbledorian, Gandalfian character of infinite wisdom, martial experience, untainted moral integrity and a white Western phenotype, speaks with a standard RP stage accent featuring the characteristic alveolar trill – or ‘rolled [r]’.
en 2013 Eben Weiss Bike Snob Abroad: Strange Customs, Incredible Fiets, and the Quest for Cycling Paradise Chronicle Book 9781452124131 http://books.google.ca/books?id=XUM3GcZPeoIC&pg=PA82&dq=%22dumbledorian%22 82 I found my way to it by following a gentleman with a Rip Van Winkle beard and a Pedersen bicycle, which is a bike of Swedish design that looks like the illegitimate offspring of a penny farthing and a hammock, and between his vaguely Dumbledorian appearance .
See also
en Voldemortesque, en Voldemortian, en Voldemortish
en eponyms
en Harry Potter