Eeyorish

eeyorish English Alternative forms en eeyorish en Eeyore-ish Etymology From the character en Eeyore (in Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne) en ish. Pronunciation en /ˈiːɔːɹɪʃ/ UK Adjective en chiefly _ UK Very gloomy or pessimistic. from 20th c. en 2002 Colin Jones (historian) Colin Jones The Great Nation 384 Penguin 2003 More important for Brienne than the king's disengagement and eeyorish bad temper, however, was the consistency of the queen's favour. en w:Marina Hyde The Guardian 28 Oct 2006 We all know how that particular story ended, of course, and while Her late Majesty never had to suffer the indignity of opening up the accounts from which the project was funded, it could be argued that the occasional brush with realism - however aesthetically distasteful - would do our Eeyorish prince no harm. en 2015 w:Dominic Sandbrook The Great British Dream Factory xxi Penguin 2016 The Great Exhibition and the Festival of Britain, declared one Eeyorish historian in the Daily Mail, had been ‘celebrations of the best in education, art and design, temples to technology and industry’. References OED 2006 en eponyms