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A donnish person is clever and serious, and seems more at home with books and ideas than with ordinary life. The picture is an old-style university teacher — the kind people call a don at Oxford or Cambridge — who talks in a careful, way and may sound a little dry. It is mainly British. Young people do not use it every day; you meet it in writing, or when someone is gently teasing. It is not a warm compliment, but it is not a hard insult either. It says “you sound like a professor,” with a small smile. Though actually, it does not mean Danish, and it does not mean finished or done. It also does not simply mean clever. A person can be very sharp in the street or in business without being donnish. Donnish is about the manner: formal, full of ideas, a bit far from everyday things. A donnish joke may need a footnote. A donnish email may be correct and still make nobody want to finish it.
學究氣的（像老派大學教授，鑽進書本、不太接地氣）
組成don (a university teacher, especially at Oxford or Cambridge) + -ish (like that).
同家族的字
- dona university teacher of that old British kind; donnish means like a don
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
donnishadj
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Characteristic of a university don.
- The proctor was a gentlemanly, straight-forward looking man of about thirty, not at all donnish, and his address answered to his appearance.
- The truth is, unless a man can get the prestige and income of a Don and write donnish books, it’s hardly worth while for him to make a Greek and Latin machine of himself and be able to spin you out pages of the Greek dramatists at any verse you’ll give him as a cue.
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Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical.
- The new engineer had a donnish air, and found it difficult to communicate with the workers in the factory.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。