Doctor Watsonish

English Etymology From en Doctor Watson ish. Adjective 1 en Dr. Watsonish. en 26 October 1909 An English Umbrella Yorkville Enquirer.Issued Semi-weekly. A Family Newspaper: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the People. 86 Yorkville, S.C. Lewis Mason Grist’s Sons Humorous Department [4] https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/339418045/ 1 2379-6332 10749176 However, out of the miscellaneous collection on hand, the manager picked out one umbrella, tagged it with the Englishman’s name and laid it away for safe keeping. Upon the return of the traveler that umbrella was given him. It proved to be the right one. “How on earth could you tell it was his?” asked a Doctor Watsonish-kind of clerk with as much awe as if he were addressing Sherlock Holmes himself. “There was no possible way of identifying it.” en 18 October 1950 M.S. Civic Interest In Theatre Project: Melton’s “Pygmalion” Was A Town Occasion Leicester Evening Mail eight https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/795603242/ There was an easy power in Maxwell Knights’ professor, but Reg. Hubbard, as Pickering, tended to be too much a secondary character, a Doctor Watsonish yes-man rather than a character in his own right. en 18 June 1978 Brian Roberts Farewell to Hawaii Star-Bulletin & Advertiser F-3 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/272037075/ 2 We then apprehend our criminals by a process of deduction and elimination in the true Sherlock Holmes’ manner, although if the truth be known most of us, including our policemen, are more Doctor Watsonish, and not clear, incisive Holmes types.