Meanings
eeyorish1
- Alternative letter-case form of Eeyorish.
Eeyorish2
comparative more Eeyorish · superlative most Eeyorish · alternative eeyorish · alternative Eeyore-ish
- UKVery gloomy or pessimistic.First known use 20th c.
More important for Brienne than the king's disengagement and eeyorish bad temper, however, was the consistency of the queen's favour.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 3842 more examples
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.
2006 October 28, Marina Hyde, The GuardianThe 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’.
2015, Dominic Sandbrook, The Great British Dream Factory, Penguin, published 2016, page xxi
Origin
From the character Eeyore (in Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne) + -ish.
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