Sherlock Holmesy

comparative more Sherlock Holmesy · superlative most Sherlock Holmesy

1. Resembling or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

   I dont^([sic]) know, he says, all Sherlock Holmesy in a cloud of smoke.

   2006, T. Lipshitz, Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes, Dutton, →ISBN

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   And he wore a Sherlock Holmesy kind of cap with a swarm of salmon flies upon it, that to my boyish fancy was more splendid than a crown.

   1951, Roland Pertwee, The River God, page 7

   "Don't try to get all Sherlock Holmesy on me, Hicks. Sherlock Holmes wasn't always right. […]

   2004, Graham Masterton, The Devil in Gray, Leisure Books, →ISBN, page 225

   Synonyms: Holmesish, Sherlockish, Sherlocky, Sherlock Holmesque, Sherlock Holmesish