Étymologie

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Dérivé de don, avec le suffixe -ish.

Adjectif

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donnish \Prononciation ?\

  1. Érudit, savant.
    • His whole shtick increasingly seems fake and disingenuous: the crazy hair, the crumpled clothes, the photo on the zip wire, the hesitant, twinkly, donnish speech pattern. — (David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 161)
      La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)