eeyorish

E1E1Y4O1R1I1S1H4
UK/ˈiːɔːɹɪʃ/

adjective

Very gloomy or pessimistic.

First used 20th c.Scrabble 14

Meanings

eeyorish1

adjective
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Eeyorish.

Eeyorish2

adjectiveEeyorish (comparative more Eeyorish, superlative most Eeyorish)

comparative more Eeyorish · superlative most Eeyorish · alternative eeyorish · alternative Eeyore-ish

  1. 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 384
    2 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 Guardian

    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’.

    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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