Meanings
comparative more Dumbledorian · superlative most Dumbledorian · alternative Dumbledorean
- Of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional wizard Albus Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series
“Now I believe it’s someone’s birthday today,” Michael [Gambon] said in his finest Dumbledorian tones.
2010, Warwick Davis, Size Matters Not: The Extraordinary Life and Career of Warwick Davis, John Wiley & Sons, published 2011, →ISBN, page 3742 more examples
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]’.
2011, Astrid Ensslin, edited by Garry Crawford, Victoria K. Gosling, and Ben Light, Gamers: The Social and Cultural Significance of Online Games, Routledge, →ISBN, Recallin’ Fagin: linguistic accents, intertextuality and othering in narrative offline and online video games, page 229I 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 […].
2013, Eben Weiss, Bike Snob Abroad: Strange Customs, Incredible Fiets, and the Quest for Cycling Paradise, Chronicle Book, →ISBN, page 82
Origin
From Dumbledore (itself from the noun dumbledore) + -ian.
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