Usually means: Pedantic, scholarly in a dry way.
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  1. donnish: Merriam-Webster
  2. donnish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. donnish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. donnish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. donnish: Vocabulary.com
  6. donnish: Wordnik
  7. donnish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. donnish: Wiktionary
  9. donnish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. donnish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. donnish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. donnish: Dictionary.com
  13. donnish: Rhymezone
  14. donnish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. donnish: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. donnish: FreeDictionary.org
  17. donnish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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adjective:  Characteristic of a (university) don.
adjective:  (of a person) Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical.

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